Fastest Week Ever...
The best way to ensure your week goes fast is to look forward to it for a month or more and then enjoy every day of it. You'll soon wonder where in the world it went. Truth. We looked forward to Kevin's week with us (a birthday gift from his awesome wife) for so long that it had no choice but to whip past faster than a speeding bullet, as the saying goes. Shoot. pun intended. Monday. Our first day of the week was spent at Lang Van Phuc, Silk City, where Kevin had the chance to see an old village/area of Hanoi that was developed for the production of silk and silk products. This village has an old temple and many, many silk shops and silk looms. We spent a good part of the day looking through the shops to find some traditional Vietnamese long dresses/shirts (Ao Dai [Ow Zie]) for Kevin to take home. This was the first of many excursions into Ao Dai shops over the coming week; there are some amazingly pretty Ao Dai in Vietnam. Some previous blogs have shown the young girls doing ...