Well....today was a big day! First of all, I got the apartment! I sign the contract tomorrow and will HOPEFULLY be able to move in tomorrow evening! I will post pictures when I get there :) I found a nice little Italian restaurant near the apt and while walking home (and by home I mean the hotel lol) I stumbled upon some fun festivities! Apparently it was the "grand opening" of this Korean restaurant (tho I swear I saw it open all week) and there was quite the spectacle taking place in the street. First there were people with big dragon masks. Then they pulled out some drums and did some really cool drumming. I took some videos but I'm not sure if I can upload them to this. I will try, though. After the drumming the got this dragon with sticks attached and about 7 or 8 guys controlled the sticks and did quite a display with it. It was really cool! After returning to my hotel I got a call from my New Zealand coworker, inviting me out to District 1 with her husband and a few other people. How could I turn her down? We went to this restaurant in the middle of nowhere (how anyone finds it, I have no clue) and the food was amazing! Unfortunately I had already eaten so I just tried a little bit of everything at the table. It was a really cool little joint with great Vietnamese food! I will definitely be taking any visitors there (yes, that's you, Mom and Dad!). Also, when you go out to the bathroom you go through a door into a room with a pond...with fish in it...and a tree in the middle...and you have to walk on a narrow bridge.....all in the building lol it was so cool and unique!

Todays post is a little short just because I'm exhausted but here is a fun observation I've made: honking horns here does NOT mean the same as it does in America. In America you honk your horn at someone because you're mad at them. Here you honk your horn just to let someone know you're there. So if a motorbike is wandering into your lane you honk the horn. If you're approaching an intersection you honk your horn. You hear hundreds of horns honking all the time but there is NO road rage (which just amazes me). Anyway, that's nothing vitally important but it is just a fun observation and cultural difference. Also, there is a lot of texting/talking on cell phones while driving motorbikes. Yea, and you thought it was bad in America?

Well, it's bed time! Hopefully this is my last night in the hotel! I WANT MY PLACE!!!! :)