Not always fun

After breakfast Luann realized that her flight from Vietnam to Bangkok was to the other airport, not the one she is flying out of to go home. The time she has was way too short to even attempt to get to the other airport. Not worth the risk of missing a international flight to the US so, we all got online and hunted for flights and fees to change etc sorry to say she has to buy another flight, and leave a night early And spend the night at the airport in Saigon. But, it could have been alot worse if she had realized this after she had gotten to the other airport. With little or no chance for redemption.
Then we walked n walked, halfway towards Ancient town, it was hot and I had sweat dripping from unmentionable places. In search of a ATM that would accept my card.. nope BUT We got our Vietnam Geocache!!!


We then decided to hail a taxi to the ATM we know worked. Success! The. He took us to the Silk village that we were in search of,  Turns out that we had to be on a tour to go thru. They were very sweet to us and got us a tour guide.


This tiny village has a spa resort built within it and was not at all what we had experienced in the other villages we have been too. A bit disappointing but interesting. Pretty neat how the process is. Very tedious work and takes a long time.


Taught us about the looms 

And the different types of silk 
silk worn cocoons


silkworms some are sleeping. They Sleep 1 day and eat for 3 days.

mating silk moths. They mate for 24 hours!!!


life cycle, they have to kill them before they become moths or the silk thread is ruined.

We decided to have dinner here at the restaurant. Pretty fancy to Vietnam standards.

I promise you I had rather go swimming in the lovely pool!!! I 

It was time to go so, we crossed the street for a taxi. There are none! Davina then hailed a Uber and as soon as she clicked it. It said car has arrived. We looked and he is sitting directly across the street from us!  A Uber from God

We got back to our homestay, Davina went to the beach, Luann took a nap, I sat on balcony enjoying the evening with my thoughts. All of a sudden our room door opened and a Chinaman was there. He had the wrong room but still freaky.
Luann woke up and Davina came back with chocolate ice cream and we spent some time on the next leg of our trip. Flight to Saigon and  4 nights at a Airbnb, 5 hour Bus to Phom Pehm Cambodia and a homestay for 1 night then a 7 hour bus to a Siem Reap homestay. Tedious work but Davina did transportation and I did the housing. We make it work!
I helped Luann pack her backpack for her long journey home and we did very well! We then talked for hours.
All in all, it’s been an ok day.