Location: Vietnam
After breakfast this morning, a crowd of us were following Mike (he sailed last spring) into town to see where he recommends getting clothes made/tailored. Last year when he was in Vietnam he had a nice quality suit handmade for an inexpensive price.
We spent the entire morning at the tailor shop. It was much harder than I expected to communicate to the ladies at the tailor shop what we were picturing in our minds and then trying to select fabric. Oohemgee. Lucky for me, Mady had sent me a handful of pictures or suggestions to use in communicating to the tailors. It seemed as if the tailor had every color or kind of fabric I could imagine and I had to narrow it down to my favorite. I sent my pictures to the tailor shop via Viber so that there would be a real good chance that I would get what I had been expecting. Those who did not have a picture or sketch were more or less just wingin' it. We also had to emphasize to the tailor shop that we would need our dresses to be completely finished, including the fitting and final touches, in three days.
After we were all done at the tailor shop we walked around the corner to a Vietnamese restaurant for lunch. We still had a sizeable group of people with us and planned to regroup and make our way back to the shuttle bus drop off area to get back to the ship. We wanted to pack up for the next few days so that we could check-in at the hotel where we would be staying.
Once everyone in our now littler-group was packed up we took a taxi to the hotel. After we were checked-in, we walked to the Ben Thanh market. It was probably a 5 minute jaunt.The market wasn't really set up yesterday when Lauren and I walked through it. This time, there was a huge building filled with little shops where people sold various different products from backpacks to purses to perfume to snacks to jewelry to t-shirts to tailor shops. It was ridiculously hot in there. Keep in mind it is about 100 degrees Fahrenheit outside making it a scorcher in this building, complete with minimal airflow and way-to-many-people. It was very overwhelming with all of the people shopping and and all of the people begging me to buy a t-shirt or a pair of shoes from their little shop. We were literally dripping in sweat as we walked around. After pure exhaustion from heat and over stimulation from the new overwhelming culture we decided to just go back to the hotel, order pizza, hang out for the remainder of the evening and de.com.press.
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