Day 7

Cheese wafers are the Rits-bits of Vietnam. 

Today was beach day! And considering I'm not a beach person, it was great. We woke up way too early and drove two hours (or rather slept two hours on a moving bus) until we reached a cute beach town. 

It turns out that not only can you find Jesus in Vietnam, but you can climb inside of him and stand on his arms. The only catch is that the giant statue is on a mountain and the only way to get up is via a bizzillion steps. You also need your shoulders and knees covered. And take your shoes off. And do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around. And assuming you've succeeded in accomplishing all these things, you are then allowed to enter Jesus and climb up the narrowest spiraling staircase, which is a teeny-tiny two way staircase I might add, until you see one of the coolest views. You could see so far! Ocean on one side, sprawling towns and buildings on the other, it was amazing and the pictures don't do it justice. We were all pouring sweat before we even got halfway up the hill, and it was just downhill from there. No one could wait to get into the ocean. 

And the ocean did not disappoint! Warm to the point of near bath water, and shallow enough that you could go out a fair distance and still stand. Also, we found Nemo (aka a small black and yellow fish that touched Beth's butt. We assumed his classmates dated him to) played some games on the beach, and had a great time! I was even singled out of a bunch of us to take a picture with some guy! No, this is something interesting but at her something that happens all the time with our group. In fact, a girl stopped Kristen and I to take a picture of us in Jesus. Being tall and pale with curly hair in Vietnam means you're never far from someone staring at you! People take picture of us taking group pictures all the time.

Alex and Bryan took a bet and sadly Bryan won, which means that most of us ended up getting sunburnt to some degree. Minus those of us with dark skin, it ranged from "a little pink on your cheeks and shoulders" to "Evan, you are so burnt!"

I was going to say that tonight were gonna sleep like logs, except that considering I'm typing this on the bus ride home, most of us already are! Which is amazing consider the bus driver beeps the horn at least once every 5 minutes. It's gonna be a long two hours... 

Tonight will be low key hanging out at the hotel, and tomorrow we're back to UFE and company visits! Also happy mothers day! 

So nighttime update: 7 of us went out to this little hole in the wall place and ate this delicious noodle soup and I ate a joint! It was like really stiff jello, for those who were wonder. 

Also for those who were wonder, I am not sick! I have not gotten sick despite the many others who have! Hopefully I didn't just jinx it but so far so good!