Its pretty crowded on one of these ferries. i think it costs like 6,000 dong to ride one of these.
After buying what we wanted this Cham village guy introduced us into some english speaking people that were visiting friends and family. i think the one guy was from Seattle and other guy from somewhere in Texas or Cali. We were also invited to a wedding but couldn't make it since it was our last night and wanted to spend it with the cousins. i think what my dad is sitting on is the groom's thrown? i have no idea. Everything in this village is just so different.
Woot! Another puppy! This is Elvis, anna's love and joy. She would get so fussy if anyone tried to take him from her. i seriously thought she was going to kill him because she was so rough. But he lived anna's visit! Hip hip!
i think jimmy liked me more, but elvis seemed to warm up to me after spending some time with him. Ugh, someone buy me a puppy already.
My dad wanted to check out a rice mill so he had Tin run around to find one. Once he did he came back to bring us to it. The crazy old rice man showed us how everything worked and how the rice got polished and all that fun stuff.
All this machinery was run off one moving part and there were belts wheels going all over the place to run different tasks.
Wei and Lam!
For dinner we had fish again! i wouldn't say this was my favorite meal of the trip but my mom seemed to like it so much i requested. These fish are so meaty.
i'm sure you're thinking that these things are pretty ugly looking...but the only way to serve fish is to have the head still on it. That's the only way you know its fresh!
The whole trip was determined to find some bia hoi, fresh beer. This beer is freshly brewed and delivered all over the town. While Saigon has several breweries that produce fresh beer, Chau Doc only has on distributor so you have to go there to be certain your beer is really 'fresh'. There are no preservatives in the beer too so this stuff has to be consumed quickly. 
Our guide to this place was Lam's dad, Liem? i have no idea how to spell his name but he sure knows how to drink. He's an electrician. He learned how to fix things from a guy that was renting the bottom floor of his mother's house for an electrical shop. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me.
Each of these jugs hold two liters. We drank two of them. The beer wasn't amazing but definitely drinkable. You can tell they use rice in the brewing process. Guess how much one of these cost? 14,000 dong. That's 5.6 beers for like 80 cents! Or a 30 pack of beer for 8 bones! Ugh, why did i wait so long to drink this stuff?! i could have been crunked this whole trip for cheap! Oh well...i'll know better for my next visit.
Well at least i got to try some bia hoi and drink enough to get buzzed. It was so cold too...hmm.
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elvis is my love and joy
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