Erin's Travel Blog

wish I had all the addresses of my friends and family so I could send them letters saying how much they mean to me. I love you guys.

So, I was talking with one of my top-tier friends, Jonathan Kim , today. Just catching up, you know. He and some of our other friends have just returned from a snowboarding trip in Montreal. I wanted to see if they had any fun without me. Apparently, they managed. Then we moved on to discuss what I should get myself into this summer: job, internship, both, traveling? I DON'T know! I want to do everything, but I need to make money. I also went ahead and asked Jon if he could help me build a page as cool-looking as his . He suggested I start a blog. WHAT!!?!?!  Listen, Jon, I thought we were friends. You'll notice I described him as "top-tier" earlier. But he didn't know I have been writing (well...) this blog since AUGUST! Plus, I only put links to it everywhere!  I think this is just great evidence that if you are not active on social networking sites (esp twitter ) then you practically don't exist. People, including your friends, will not

Day 65 After a breakfast of eggs and Vietnamese coffee the group piled onto the bus and set out for the ferry to the Thúy Cung aquarium. I believe we sat in boats very much like the ones described in Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala . We sailed underneath the gondola that goes across the bay. As we turned around a corner, what looked like an old, stranded, ship came into view. There were also shark, tropical fish and shrimp statues chilling on the shore. After docking we realized that the sunken ship was the aquarium. This trip seems to have some Ship theme. The building itself was more elaborate than the exhibits. They had basically built home aquariums into the walls. There usually weren't many plants or anything in the tanks with the fish. It was pretty dreary. But the building was cool. In the gift shop Tess almost bought something we had been warned about: tortoise shell jewelry. The Vietnamese kill the turtles just to make jewelry from their shells to sell to t