We arrived and took a bus to our hotel where we stowed our stuff then got back on a bus to take us to Halong Bay. We got on a small boat that would take us to a junk boat where we’d cruise through Halong Bay for a day and a half. “Junk” boat doesn’t mean it’s junky, this is a type of boat seen on post cards and tourist brochures for Vietnam. Our Junk boat was actually very nice, but because we were a relatively small group and on a smaller junk we needed to take a rowboat from the pier to our ship. The problem with this is that there are also giant boats in the same water, couple this with the same mentality as used for street traffic (meaning the last person to blink has the right of way) and you end up with several near death experiences just getting to our junk. I’m serious. I really thought we were going to be smashed. I don’t know if the big junks couldn’t see us, or didn’t care, but our row boat pilot was rowing with everything he had to get us out of the way of one of the big ships. And even still Colleen had to push us away from one of them. I was apologizing to Angelica for every bad thing I’ve ever done (All I could think of was this one time she got really mad at me for leaving toe nail clippings in the bathroom sink). But then we survived and I told her I wasn’t really sorry.
We got on our boat. It was pretty cool. It had a big upper deck we could go sit on, and a little area with a table we could play euker on. Oh yes, I must continue to commend the Canadians for knowing how to play euker. I thought it was just people in Michigan and Ohio. God bless Canada. They also play the game Asshole. But Canadian Asshole is different. I’ll let Angelica explain.
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