The Update

Howdy Partners, I was off to a roaring start and then fell into a writing funk there for a while due to the consistent waves that keep rolling into Vung Tau. As it is at the moment, When I'm not working I'm surfing basically. Anywho, I'm back at it now and intend to give you some tasty details about the trip.

To follow up on the last post, later on that second night we infact met Brandon for dinner at a place down the street from my house called Plein Sud. It's run by a french fella and his ex-wife, although he is there far more than she, she having established other business pursuits in the recent past, namely a bar and a burger restaurant. At the time of our visit I was a touch on the nervous side as I had been talking to her briefly at the disco the week prior, and had invited her out for a drink. The nervousness stemmed from the fact that I hadn't called her to follow through with it as of yet. While we ate pizza and drank chilean wine I talked with her for a moment and nothing terrible came of it, I actually ended up seeing her on the ferry when we were coming back to Vung Tau from the north at which point we chatted for the full hour and a half ride. Back to the night at hand. After dinner we headed to my friend Giao's bar and small restaurant. Giao is a lady of 27, a good english speaker and a long standing friend of myself, and a few other teachers. She runs a booming seafood "restaurant" and empty bar situated nicely next to all of the other bars in town, and is open late, servicing a few drunken white folk and more drunken locals, sometimes until sunrise. We made our way there, had some drinks and played some pool. Since we had already eaten we were in no position to indulge in Giao's lovely cuisine, but Alex never shies away from a plate of the delicious mi xao bo (fried noodles and beef). The night wasn't too raucus, we made it home in good time, and upon departure I managed to find myself another prospective date, in the form of the divine little bartendress at Giao's. Good times.