Street vendor

This lady was NOT having it when I tried to take her picture and avoided me at all costs!

She was armed and ready to sell anything - cigarettes, nail clippers, fans, masks and even fake Gucci wallets. We get approached every single block cause everyone can tell from our constant picture taking that we are really tourists.

Shopping the streets of Hanoi

Fresh fruit...



and even fake designer underwear...

My mom and aunts

Watch out! The ladies in my family are armed, dangerous and ready to shop, SPEND and HAGGLE (all sporting their designer sunglasses btw). We started out the day shopping in Hanoi's crazy busy shopping district.

My mom is second to the left. The rest are my cool aunts.

Street Scene

Everyone is on a motor bike here. The rest walk very fast. And everyone looks super serious everywhere...at all times.

And they will run your ass over.

It's much easier to navigate Manhattan.

Hanoi Rocks!

My first view of Hanoi. It's smells like smoke everywhere, it's hot and humid. It's incredibly noisy.

The best breakfast buffet ever -- mixing American and Asian food! Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash, FRIED RICE and CHICKEN PHO SOUP!!! I went back for seconds...and thirds...

Zac Efron is okay airline entertainment, I guess...

SO the flight from LA to Korea was 13 hours. At some point the super chic stewardesses made everyone shut down the shades and turned off all the lights. Sleepy time! I popped my pill and fell asleep as Zac Efron was singing his heart out in High School Musical Three.

Those are Korean subtitles by the way.

The night before. Groan...

So the night before I left for Vietnam, I partied hardy for Guillermo's birthday at Amsterdam Bar. I had to board the shuttle for the airport at 4AM...needless to say I didn't sleep at all that night. The entire trip took a total of about 30 hours with the flight to LA, then Korea, then Vietnam.

A huge shout out to Jackie (rockin' her 80s side ponytail) who gave me a pill that knocked me out for a good 7 hours. "It kinda works like a date rape drug!" she informed when she gave me the little white pill.

It seriously worked sister.

Here's me, Guillermo, Jackie and the two Matthews - M Earnest in front and M Tullos in the back with his cute middle finger.