Funny Story and Update

Hello guys, John here bringing you a blog still on Vietnam, so hard to get through all my stories and write them down in blog form :(. I am very late as I have missed so many days of blogging and I apologize for that. I hope I can get back into the habit of doing my blogs regularly but I'm not sure.

We are in Indonesia/Bali today and if you don't know, well that's pretty far away in my blogs, I have skipped ahead but still have to fill in more on Vietnam and of course amazing Singapore. So yeah I'm behind a lot, but so is my mom so I don't feel so bad! 

Here is a little update with a really funny story that happened a while back in Vietnam.  Still in in Hanoi) was when we came back from the Vietnamese museum of war. We got ambushed by this lady who had a basket full of what looked like Timbits. She offered one of them to us as a sample, I immediately turn back around to see dad buying some for his own as he liked the taste of them. The lady says a ridiculous price in dong and dad say 'No thank you that's too much money' the lady starts to beg dad offering and saying stuff in Vietnamese and I see dad laughing as he thinks the situation is ridiculous, I go over and try to help him and the next thing I know this tailor takes my shoe and glues the bottom and starts to thread through the sides. He slides a flip flop on my foot and tells me too wait. As my father is arguing with the lady mom and Elizabeth come over and mom slaps her hand on her forehead and backs away. Dad finally gives up because he had realized that I had lost my shoe to this tailor man so he gives the lady 3 American dollars to leave him alone and completely breaks out into laughter and tells the guy to give my shoe back. I receive my shoe back and realize the stiches on the side of my shoe which will stay with me forever. We reunite with mom and Elizabeth which they gave dad a hard time as well as me. Well I guess you know never to let your guard down because someone might take your shoe and also to never stop for food by street vendors if you're a tourist. Later we find out that there have been scams like that all around Hanoi where people take you're shoe and stiche it, then you have to pay a crazy amount of money to get it back and also scams like the one dad got from the lady. 

I think this has been a crazy good blog for you in return of me not being on schedule with these sorts of things. Next blog will be in Sapa where I talk mostly about Cat-Cat village. Well until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out. Pictures included!