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	We spend our last day in Hue.  I called Carolyn on the hotel's VoIP and talk about the previous day’s travels.  She says I should get a tapestry with a lot of bright flowers and a hill side...or at least that is what I heard...so I run out and buy the picture I had spotted the day before.  Without the frame, I get another picture thrown in as a gift for Meredith for $50 more.
	With little time before the bus arrives, we make a quick tour out to the ancient art museum in this really old building.  Our driver is young and is not the best driver.  He shifts it from 1st, into 3rd, and then into 5th...all before he gets the car to 10mph.  At 10mph, the car shakes and the entire city passes us by on the road and this kids face looks so happy and innocent.  The heavy tiled roof on the museum is propped up with large steel poles, it is very ancient.  The beams are dark and there isn't much light in the place.  It is an ancient building from the Imperial Palace right outside of the walls.  Outside are many cannons, one which is housing a toad that sits in the barrel and watches the world go by.  There are a lot of old Nguyen artifacts inside dating from 1800 and on.  It is a quit place and we are the only ones in there.  We then get a taxi back to the hotel and sit in a cafe until the buss arrives
	Our $2.50 two hour bus ride is uneventful except for about 20 minutes of diesel fumes.  Linda and I sit and talk about husbands, sons, friends and Vietnam.  We stopped at a concession store with several other busses.  There are probably 100 people here.  I'm able to bargain down some ice cream after going through 2 people over the course of 30 minutes...a whole 30 cents...they are tough...but the ice cream is probably the best I have ever tasted.  We talk the bus driver in dropping us off at the Sandy Beach Hotel instead of making us depart at DaNang saving us a taxi ride of about 20 minutes.
	The hotel is nice.  Not on par with Furuma Resort in the heart of DaNang, but it is quite and comfortable.  Unfortunately it is away from the city and out by itself.  Ideal for families with children, but after one night I long for the My Khe hotel with the constant local life and its simplicity.  The grounds are nice here, there are several pools, a bar...but not the VoIP for calling home.  The breakfasts are nice with more selections than you could eat in one sitting.  Since it is owned by a foreign group, the prices are more western, laundry is outrageous at over $40 a weeks supply of clothes.
	Terry finally arrives after a 6 hour delay in his flight in Saigon.  We joke with him all night and ask what he really did in Saigon for those six hours.  We all travel to Hoi An again for dinner and have the best Long Island ice tea.  After dinner, we walk to our previous restaurant and have the best ice cream.  The girls head out and do their shopping and they all buy shoes.  Robyn has *got* to learn to negotiate! Terry and I sit like husbands on the curb and wait for our wife’s as they shop! Kids are playing badminton in the streets as motor bikes rush by.  The kids are either using the telephone wires, or the heads of the people on motor bikes as the next for the badminton.  All the kids look happy.  We find a taxi and head back to the hotel.  Our taxi driver is a women, the first none we have ever had here in Vietnam...and she was the best! Most taxi drivers seem to drive at 15-20 mph.  She drive over 45mph most of the way, and found roads that were completely vacant.  After driving in Vietnam for the last week, 45mph seems so fast and dangerous!
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