Firstly, damn you wordpress for your poor photo management and not recognizing valid HTML code. I apologize for the misaligned photos/captions but i blame it all on wordpress and I am too tired to fix it.

Hanoi Paradise Hotel where we were “upgraded” for free. Pretty sweet for $70/night. The people that work at the hotel are very friendly and helpful. They even invited us to eat (a 2nd) dinner with them tonight out on the street where we sat in tiny chairs and cooked our own food and drank alot of vodka.

The Sofitel in Hanoi. Lonely Planet likens it to the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. This is the view of the hotel from across the lake:

This is a game I like to call “where is the dead animal?” it follows similar rules to ‘Where’s Waldo?’. I might add that about 4 feet away were people fishing. I counted 3 plus a bag of chips and a cucumber slice.

Next up is “man with a thousand baskets”:

And finally cute kid eating on the street (the same streets that make me sick due to the amount of pollution in the air!):