I think we are mentally getting ready to go home. After a leisurely breakfast, we walked to the local park. In the early morning there are a lot of people exercising ( we drove by it several times on the bus) but by the time we got there this morning most of the exercising was done. They were getting ready for Tet. I think the decorated portion of the park opens tomorrow. They were practicing a song and dance routine on the stage.
We continued our walk and ended up in a coffee/juice shop. We sat in front of the window and outside there were several very tall Vietnamese women recording routines that we suspect will end up on TikTok.
We went to a very decorated restaurant for lunch.
I didn’t like my lunch so much but Rick enjoyed his. Then we came back to the room to get packed up and relaxed for the afternoon. Mai is still checking in us and made reservations for us for dinner.
We relaxed for the afternoon and then walked the 0.7 miles to the Sofitel Hotel for dinner at ST25. We had a delicious dinner. Mai had told them that it was Rick’s birthday so they brought flan with a candle and sang happy birthday to him. We were going to take a taxi back to our hotel but it turned out we need to keep our cash for the taxi ride to the airport the next morning.