Three, Two, One... (Ba, Hai, Mot...)
What a beautiful day we had for our last great p-day adventure in Vietnam! Our junior missionaries all told us they would do whatever we wanted to do, but we didn't want to do the same old things over again. Allen searched and searched, and he managed to find a new pagoda we hadn't seen, and it was near a mountain where we like to hike. Yay! So we rented a 16-seat van, invited a few extra people to come along, and rode about an hour away to a place called Tram Gian Pagoda. It was a beautiful place in a rural area, and we explored for about an hour. It's always fun to see new things, even though they look eerily the same as every other pagoda we've ever seen--generally speaking. There are always some things that are different, but there are always flowers, incense burners, drums, storks on turtles, offerings, Buddhas, heroes, stern soldiers, happier solders, etc., etc. When we finished looking around this pagoda, we drove 8 minutes away to Chua Tram and Nui Tram. This...