Danang

March 20th
Danang

You know, I’m not even sure if that’s the name of the port or not…it sucks not having a schedule here in the room that tells me. But regardless, I didn’t get to see much of the city this time. For the most part, my day was on hold till we could do our 1:00 boat drill and all crew meeting, my first of both since getting on the ship. After that, I did manage to make it off the ship for a little while, but was limited with my time due to a rehearsal at 4:30. There didn’t seem to be much going on in the city, so instead of spending my couple hours off the ship walking forever to get to an empty city, I decided to just climb the big hill that the ship was docked next to. I went by myself, but really had a great time. The foliage in so much different in Vietnam, it’s really interesting observing the differences. After spending some time climbing as high as I could (till the trees got too dense), I found a large boulder to sit on and just look out over the bay and it’s surrounding mountains. It was absolutely gorgeous. I spent about as much time up there as I though I could spare before having to worry about getting back to the ship on time for my rehearsal, and then made my way back down. I had a couple close calls with slipping on something not stable enough to hold my weight, but made it back to the ship with out a scratch…and hopefully without any developing rashes from poisonous Vietnamese plants, but I guess we’ll see about that tomorrow. Then we had the rehearsal and show for an act called Gaucho, some traditional Argentinean Dancer who really had a great show. Then that was about it for the night. Thanks for reading!