GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!! After another pho breakfast we grabbed a taxi to the US Embassy so that Tam can obtain another passport and visa. This whole process took almost the whole day with a lot of paperwork and lets just say "monetary compensation", I'll explain later... When we got to the Embassy we got instructions on what needs to be done. My Aunt stayed with Tam to finish the passport stuff while My dad and Sarah went around the town again. We went inside the Ho Chi Minh Museum and then want to go see the "Hilton Hotel" which was a P.O.W. camp where soldiers were held during the war. What we found out is that everything shuts down between 11am - 2pm for lunch/rest. We ended up walking around Hoan Kiem Lake before grabbing lunch.Oh what I forgot to mention is that to get to Hoan Kiem Lake we had to hail a taxi. On the way to the lake Sarah saw something suspicious with the meter. So my dad watched and saw that whenever the guy would tap his breaks twice the meter would jump dramatically. My dad called him out and tore him a new one and that's putting it mildly.
In the meanwhile my Aunt and Tam needed to go obtain a police report to get her new passport. Long story short it took some greasing before they were able to get a police report, get a new photo taken and return back to the Embassy to get her new passport only to give the passport right back to the Vietnamese consulate to now apply for a visa.
Sarah wanted me to mention that we ordered lunch for 5 people with plenty of food left over and it only cost us $10 dollars.
