Paradise

We spent the evening in Rach Gia, right near the pier. I don't think I slept at all that night as between the dogs fighting and the people up at the crack of dawn.. it was a long night. We, however, swear we were the only white people in the town. As we walked at night everyone said Hello, Hello. Kids, adults, everyone. If you know of my favourite show (and Steven's) "Arrested Development", all we wanted to reply was "Anung". Over and over.. it was hilarious.

During this walk, we had the best BBQ chicken ever, I told Steven to watch out and proceeded to stub my toe and lose most of my right big toe nail. OUCH. Steven had me on the bed was cleaning my foot and cutting my toe nail off. That was one for the books. It's been a few days now and the salt water doesn't burn anymore...

Either way we took the ferry over in the morning and ended up in Paradise by 10:40 am. It's hot, it's tropical, white sand for miles, a roaring ocean in the background. All in all a perfect place to stay. We ended up extending our stay for one more night and we will be flying to Dalat on the 5th and staying their til the 7th where we will return to Saigon to finish up a few tours we want to do in that area.

Yesterday, we rented scooters and took off to find the most beautiful beach I have ever been too. The water was clear, you could see jelly fish, crabs, fishes, and we could walk in what I would classify as a warm if not hot bath for miles. Steven has the better pics but I have posted a few. We walked down the beach a bit, past a whopping 10 people and had our own piece of paradise for the afternoon. We set up shop under a palm tree and read, swam, tanned and repeated. However, the "tan" didn't really occur and you have two red lobsters now. I feel sorry for our offspring if we ever go down that path.. neither of us were blessed with skin that tans! We scootered back, looking for ice cream (I settled on a full banana split for myself) and We crashed after supper. The sun just kills you! We have been sleeping 10 - 12 hours each night that we have been here!

We did try and watch the sunset, but what was more amusing was the group of Vietnamese men on vacation in the bungalows in front of us. They were so drunk, cat calling at all the young ladies and one guy made me laugh so hard as he ran back to the room, singing the whole way and the proceeded to sit under the shower that is just used to wash your feet. Picture a grown man in a fetal position under a water spout. Man did we laugh.

Note: I have no vertical as evident by the photo above. Two beaches are shown, the one off our resort and the other at Sao Beach.