Saturday November 1st- 3rd day in Nam Today we woke up pretty early because we had plans to go to the Mekong Delta and wanted to be on our way by 8:00. The delta is the southern most part of Vietnam and is famous for its floating markets and rice paddies. It takes about an hour and a half to get there. Lacey, Erica, Raphael and I had asked around different tourist places in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) and they all offered day trips for $60ish. So we decided to...

Friday October 31st, Day 2 Vietnam Today was our first full day in Vietnam. Lacey and I had both signed up for an SAS sponsored trip to a school for handicapped children. The trip left from the ship at 8am so we got up early and ate breakfast before meeting on the pier for the trip. There was only 15 students or so on this trip compared to the 70+ on the orphanage visit in Malaysia. We took a 20 minute drive to a different more residential part of town....

Wednesday October 30th Finally in Nam and it is so much fun! Ho Chi Minh City is located on a river so we had to take a river from the ocean for a few hours to get here. And we didn't get here until noon because the river is tidal and we needed to wait for high tide. The trip up the river was a lot of jungle, small little boats similar to in the Amazon, and a lot of houses on stilts. We finally got and Lacey, Ari, Steph and Erica, Mitch, Sam and I all went ou...

Sunday October 26th Today is our last day in Malaysia. We had an 11:30 flight out of KL so we left our hotel around 8:30 to leave ourselves plenty of time and took a taxi rather than a bus. We hung around the airport for a little bit and picked up some free internet and were getting live updates on the Phillies and Penn State games. The flight was uneventful which was good. Slap Shot and I were both going on a FDP to an orphanage at 2pm which me...

Saturday October 25th This morning we woke up in our comfy 5 star hotel suite at 7:30am so we could get to the Patronas towers early enough to get tickets to go up to the sky bridge which connects the two towers. It was a slow process getting ready after being up so late last night, but we finally got moving and walked the mile or so to the towers. There was a huge line in the lobby of the towers with people waiting to get tickets. Some other SAS studen...