Thursday, May 7, 2009

Slow and Steady

We took a boat to Ha Long Bay in the Gulf of Tonkin. My mom brought binoculars. Brillz. She intended to bird watch but there weren't any birds. When she asked our guide why, he said it was because they ate all the birds. My mom probably went home and tore up her Audubon Society membership card after that.

It was only day 2 and Anna already had a rash. I told her itching was mental because only children are full of compassion.


Ha Long Bay has 3000 limestone mountains jutting out of the water. They were made when an earth quake shook the region thousands of years ago - but ask any local and they'll tell you the moutains were made by a dragon's thrashing tail as he flew down from the mountains to the sea. Uh huh. Oh Yeah, and! The difference between Eastern Dragons and Western Dragons is Western Dragons have wings and Eastern Dragons don't.

We got off the boat to go on a 'secret cave hike.' By the looks of the mouth of the cave, I thought we were in for a photo-op and then back to the boat for some more spring rolls, but then we descended into this massive hole:

All I could think of was that night we watched The Descent on the projector at north fourth and spilling red wine all over myself when the bat creatures first attacked.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow!