Christmas in the City of Angels

Our Tree!

being Asian girls

POOOOOOOL TIME. bathrobes. flashing the streets of bangkok

we <3 fun

most festive couple at dinner

couple of 3 that is

our music entertainment at dinner: Poochy: a 7 foot tall jazz singer from Alabama.

Happy Birthday King Bhumibol Adulyadej!

On December 5th, 2012  His Royal Highness King Bhumibol Adulyadej 

celebrated his 85 birthday in front of 100,000 adoring Thais.  Yellow is the King's color. 

Aerial photo

The King's Guard

Ernie saw Bubba Watson!

The National Thailand Golf Championship was held outside Bangkok in a town called Chonburi. Big names like Bubba Watson, Hunter Mahan, Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia, and John Daly made the trek over to SE Asia. Ernie got an arm's-length away form his favorite goofball on the course, Bubba. Bubba ended up placing 2nd in the tournament.

Ernie went Fishing... for alien catfish

Ernie went fishing at a fish farm in Bangkok. It was 1,000 Baht (30 bucks) for the day. The Thai fishing guides do all the baiting and casting, and you simply reel 'em in! The picture above is a 27 kg catfish. These fish are believed to have come from mars.

'Nam Video

'Nam

Ernie and I helping carry grain in Central Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Available in 'Nam 

An alleyway in Hanoi, Vietnam

Hanoi graffiti

Hoa Lo Prison, Hanoi.  Where John McCain was held during the Vietnam War. 

Ho Chi Minh City

Alleyway in Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon Notre Dame Basilica, Ho Chi Minh City

My Easy Rider bike and guide. Mr. Hien

Flowers in Central Vietnam. (Photo credit: Morgan)

Elephant Waterfalls, Central Vietnam

Vietnam countryside

Floating houses, Central Vietnam

The group in a tradition Vietnamese hut. 

Mom & her pups.

'Nam baby

Old French church destroyed by floods in the 1950s

'Nam baby out in the rice fields with her family. 

Easy Rider guide telling us about cocoa trees 

Mountains in Central Vietnam

Nha Trang fish port

Vinpearl Water Park, Nha Trang, Vietnam.  Tony & Austin

About to race at Vinpearl Water Park. 

The group in the wave pool, Vinpearl 

Vinpearl Water Park

The beautiful ancient city in Hoi An. 

Ancient city, Hoi An

Hoi An

The group at dinner in Hoi An.  (Ernie went back to BKK for hockey)

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Hanoi Cathedral (students doing their morning workouts) 

Hanoi 

Our boat to Ha Long bay. (Pre-typhoon)

The group in Ha Long Bay (Pre-typhoon)

Ha Long Bay

The group and our vessel. Ha Long Bay. 

Sunken ship (post-typhoon)

I rent a motorbike in Hanoi...scary. 

Just an elephant walking the streets of some small town in Central Vietnam. 

Image from the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Anti-America image from War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City

“Part of a wall left also required Nixon to pay for this blood debt.”

Anti-American image War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
 “Budapest Patriotic Front supporting Vietnam against the U.S., 1968” 

Coffee beans, Central Vietnam

Jars fermenting rice beer. 

Ernie and his Easy Rider tour guide. 

Communist propaganda like this was all over Vietnam, it is an image of the late Ho Chi Minh.  

cow

Anti-American image War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
"Asia supporting Vietnam against U.S"

Vietcong War Victory Monument.