We meet our match on the streets of Hanoi.

This post is a bit backwards beginning with our death defying walk to dinner. After two weeks of surviving crossing the road, this evening we almost bought the farm! This first picture show the guys who wait for the red light,just before they go right AND left on red. Whew!!!! We went to a sort of street food food court where you order off a menu but the food is made at multiple stands within the restaurant. To eat this egg pancake you take a slice and roll in the rice paper with mint, basil, lettuce and cooked greens and dip it Ina sauce. Oh yeah, uh huh,
Saturday we spent the day at An Bang beach in Hoi An ( Someone forgot the camera) and then Sunday after one more trip to Ancient Town we flew to Hanoi.
Today we wandered around the old quarter, which is tiny, narrow streets selling everything you can imagine from knock off Gap clothes to incredibly beautiful embroidered silk pictures that sell for $4000 American. Check out the Buddha shrine on top of a house. Yes, those are stairs with a movie on them- weird to walk up- ok coming down.
We went to the Women's Museum which was large and a very interesting look a the roles of women in the past and present in Vietnam. women have been fierce gorilla fighters through centuries of war and several Vietnamese societies are very matriarchal.
We took a walk around Haon Kiem Lake near our hotel and visited a beautiful pagoda there and staggered home for a quick rest before our death defying walk to dinner.
Hanoi is a busy, crazy city that keeps a tourist on her toes.
By the way, the Vietnamese men compete with one another as to who can own the birds with the most beautiful song. The birds are for sale lots of places and they do sing beautifully!