Day Two - In Hanoi

We woke up today at 5am, not bad considering we manageed to sleep through the night. Only thing is we totally passed out 6:30pm the night before! Had breakfast here at the hotel and got ready for our first adventure out. We first stopped by at Hoan Kiem Lake where I enjoyed first thing having a bird totally crap on my head! Poor Martin was trying not to laugh as we pulled out the alcohol wipes and purell. And yes they were in my back pocket, no messin' around especially with Avian Bird Flu. The travel clinic kind of missed "what to do when a bird poos on your head"! :)It was already stupid hot by 9:30am and had to keep walking to keep cool and finally sought refuge in a mini grocery store that had air conditioning. We ended up buy a $1.50 bottle of lotion just cuz. After that the strolled the streets of Old Hanoi which is where most the touristy shopping is. No surprise to my friends that my first purchase was a silk purse.Since we were in the area we headed over to Martin's cousins again to enjoy some lunch. After lunch we rode on the back of their scooters and zipped over to visit with another one of Martin's family members.We were then dropped off at one of the new malls here to check out what the shopping is like. Tired from the heat, humidity and pollution we opted to sit in cafe for a bit to get our bearings back.Headed back to the hotel for a quick snooze and now it's 7:00 pm and we are trying to figure out what to do for dinner. MIght end up getting room service again since we are both still very much out of it.Tomorrow we are going to visit one of the Pagoda's around here and maybe a couple museum's. We will be doing a day trip to Ha Long Bay on Wednesday so we hope to have beat the jet lag by then (well actually just Martin... my first stab at him on this journal :)