Days 66,67,68 March 11, 12, and 13th 2018 At Sea, and Phu My, Vietnam and at sea

So here we are again, catch-up day. Our room has a big dehumidifier going, trying to get the moisture out of the carpet, and prevent the mold from developing as I could tell by the smell was happening, and by the fact that my eyes were burning,,,,, etc etc. So hopefully this will be resolved soon 

Here are some pictures of the mess. 

 

The crew scrambling after getting the water turned off from the sprinklers, boy do they put out a lot of water! 

 

This is the hall carpet hung out to dry.  They brought us chocolates and a bottle of wine, the next day, of coarse we slouched around all night, when you went to the bathroom, guess who didn’t kneed to go all night, he slept like a baby. I was up most of that night walking in water in our hall. They tried to help by putting down half a dozen towels, but I think it just made a bigger mess, because there was no where for the water to go.  The next morning, or I should say latter that morning, they started to use big vacuums to suck up the water. Then they pulled up the carpet in the hallway, and hung it out to dry.  Our room was mopped up the next day, but it took two more days before it was really dry, that didn’t happen unti yesterday the 13th when they finely brought in a big dehumidifier, it is now back to normal.  It was unfortunate that they kept our balcony door open all day when we were in Vietnam as that air was any thing but fresh. 

So now on to our day in Vietnam, it was fun, we learned how to make spring rolls and a wonderful salad, did you know, that they use Lotas in there salads. They harvest the stalks 15 feet under the water and it is really good. Taste a bit like celery root. The dressing we learned to make was wonderful too, the spring rolls were greasy as they tried to rush us, but I learned a lot a bought some great spring roll wrappers, and of the freshest pistachio nuts  I have ever had, in the market, but that was the only shopping in the market we had. I wanted so much to by an ou-di, but they didn’t let us shop. :( 

  

Charline and I drinking water getting ready to cook. 

 

 The food was ready to be prepared, all very clean. This is the cooking school, on the top floor, it was also CIA headquarters / MAC-V, during the war. 

So after a long day, we once again boarded the bus for the 1 1/2 hour ride back to the ship. 

 

 

Chinese are taking over. There are still some rice fields around, but they are plowing over them to build high-rises.