Hoi An

Our second destination in Vietnam was Hoi An (pronounced huay ahn).  Being 2 miles from the sea, it's a very popular tourist town.  The whole "downtown" area is only a few square miles, and you could see all the sights in a day or two, along with going to the ocean.  But our hotel was a 15 minute walk from that whole area, which was very inconvenient.  (More about that later.)  

Our hotel supplied free bikes for their guests, but the bikes were more akin to broken tanks from the Vietnam war, and every single one had at least something wrong with it.  

The highlight to our visit to Hoi An was going to the beach.  We took some "bikes" from our hotel and took a nice cruise down to the water.  The ride was beautiful, it guided us across fields of rice, along a lazy river and down to the ocean.  There I made a sand castle, my mom and Bryce ran around looking for shells, and Peter and my dad took lots of pictures of us doing these things.  Unfortuatly, the rain decided to ruin the party and we winded up having to leave early.  

The rain was a nuisence the whole trip.  It attacked us again while we were hanging out at a cafe, eating ice cream and buying even more bread.  It saw us ready to leave without our bikes, so decided to crash the party.  It didn't give us a small spring sprinkle, more like a tropical monsoon!  (Ok, maybe not that bad).  

The rest of the days were spent hanging around our favorite cafes, shopping around for a blazer to fit Peter, and just seeing the sights.  The days in Hoi An were fun (if not rainy) and we had our fair share of cafes and bread.  But the expidition wasn't over yet - the final destination on our Vietnam trip was the formal imperial capital, Hue.