Oh boy Hanoi

So i'm about to head out with a bunch of people i met in my hostel so this will have to be brief.  the hostel hear is really nice with air conditioned, clean rooms, wifi and 3 computers and everyone is sooo nice.  i'm in a 6 bed dorm room with 5 people in it right now, so far everyone seems really nice. (costing me $6 a night, mwhahahah)

got to my hostel yesterday and was a little nervous at first because the first bunch of people i tried making conversation with weren't having any of it.  it is possible that at least one of the dudes didn't speak engrish but i duno about that.  I then ended up meating a guy from chicago who i wandered around with and grabbed some really cool stuff for dinner (no idea what any of it was).  then while i was winding down in the lobby of the hostel a few people were heading out to grab some beers and invited me along.  we wandered around looking for a bar they saw earlier, but couldn't find it.  ended up at this place drinking some kind of lime and tea drink- it was really good. A girl started talking to us and suggested i get this mango soup that was delicious.  she said she was actually from saigon and was working on the groupon from vietnam and she covered all our food/drinks.  In an area where scamming westerners is more common it was really unexpected.  we then went to this really chill bar and had some beer that cost 15,000dong (yes, vietnam money is called dongs).  that comes out to about 75 cents.  after one beer we all were just tired and came back to sleep for what will be a long day of touring today.

we're actually going pretty soon to check out Ho Chi Min's mausoleum and then run around Hanoi for the day.  should be interesting.  Even american's don't view the war in vietnam as a good thing, but i'm curious to go to a vietnam museum and see their side of things. okay, cab will be here in a sec.

sorry family (although mom, i'm sure you'll enjoy it)  for the quote...but a friend of mine just made this comment "your vaca makes my brain vagina wet as shit."---and so far it is pretty damn interesting