Don't Be Lazy.

I don't think I ever want to leave Nha Trang. Mix 3 parts beach with 8 parts partying and 2 parts cheap massages and that about sums it up. I want to open a bar/hostel here.

Unfortunately we couldn't find the infamous booze cruises but we did find something good. It was a boat trip around to some islands and a really dodgy aquarium. The most fun part was definitely the floating bar. And by floating bar they mean a piece of styrofoam with some plastic flowers. One of the boat attendants swam around topping off our cups with cheap red wine as we floated around in tubes.

We met some cool people from Australia, England, and Canada on the trip and we all decided to get dinner and drinks afterwords. Drinks turned into 2 liter cocktails that get served in a vase and many many buckets. Surprisingly the bars close pretty early here.

While recovering on the beach today we got ambushed by people selling things. At first it was massages on the beach. 150,000 dong ($8) for an hour massage on the beach. Southeast Asia is great. Then it got out of control. The ladies started doing Julie's nails and threading her legs. They just kind of start and wait for you to say no. But you can't really say no. Then this lady came by selling bracelets. I'm pretty good at saying no to these vendors but this lady was different. As soon as I said I didn't want a bracelet she said "don't be lazy". Is that like "you won't"? Needless to say I bought a bracelet. She also made me buy an anklet for Julie. The best part was when we were bargaining. She wanted 120,000 dong and I wanted 100,000. We got to 110,000 then she said "rock, paper, scissors...you win, 100,000. I win, 120,000". Best bargaining tool ever. We played, she won, I paid. It was almost as funny as when we paid for some pictures in Cambodia with dollars, won, riel, and baht.

Sadly vacation is coming to an end. Tomorrow night we're taking a night bus to Saigon. I'm kind of excited to sleep on the bus. Instead of seats it has these weird bunk things. 3 levels of bunks. It'll be interesting...