Our Trip to Vietnam - Jeffrey Reporting

In our trip to Vietnam, we went on a bus. We saw the sights of Cambodia and Vietnam. At the border, we had to check our passports and our baggage. When we arrived at the hotel in Ho Chi Min City, we checked into our a room. And there was free high speed internet in the hotel lobby.

We went to the Unification museum. It was the Presidential Palace of South Vietnam before the end of the war. It’s like the capital building and the president’s house in the U.S.A., combined! At the 1^st floor were rooms like the meeting room. This room has a piano. On the 2^nd floor, it was like the 1^st floor. The 2^nd floor has some animal sculptures. It was kind of creepy. The 3^rd floor is the president’s and the first lady’s recreation room. There is a movie theater, a gambling room, and the courtyard. On the top floor is the watch tower. There is a helicopter here. At the basement is the military area. It showed a map of Vietnam. Then at the ground floor, the rooms are the kitchen and the garage. The president had a luxurious car! Then we move out of the unification museum.

At night we saw a Water Puppet show. It showed the life of the countryside of Vietnam. The puppets are doing boat races, fish catching, and dances. There were musicians signing and playing instruments to accompany the puppet show. The puppets’ voices are in Vietnamese, and the people that are playing the instruments are speaking the voices of the puppets. The Water Puppet show was 90% good.

The food here is bigger. They even have the R-word! I ate ice cream, onion rings, and a hamburger for dinner and desert.