Sarah Beth did a great job of describing our day. I just wanted to add the name of the hotel if anyone wanted to check it out online. It is the Green Plaza Hotel. It is the most beautiful hotel. The place we ate and shopped last night was in Hoi An. The box Mary Kathryn got was from a shop where they carved marble. They had artisans actually working as we watched. The carvings were amazing. Her box has an intricately carved rose on the top and is just beautiful. She used the money Uncle Kurt and Aunt Julie gave her for her birthday to purchase it.
The old house that Sarah Beth talked about was called the Ancient House and was over 200 years old. The lady that walked us around it was the eighth generation in her family to live there. They had beautiful silk tableclothes that they made right there, they had many paintings, and they also had some wood carved items. The craftsmanship is very impressive.
When Sarah Beth said the water mountain was hard to climb, she wasn't kidding. There's no way to accurately describe it, so I'm hoping when I upload my photos you'll be able to see. It was straight up, but the view at the top was breathtaking. Well worth the climb. It was also the hottest I had been since we got here.
At the bottom of the mountain there was a cave and in the very back of it was a temple. It was so serene in there and really beautiful. There were some "holes" in the ceiling of the cave and they let some sunlight shine through. We asked how the holes got there, and were told "we" did it with bombs. Oops. They looked on the bright side of it, though, and said it made it very beautiful.
I'm in the lobby of the hotel blogging because that's where have access in the hotel and the guide has come in for our next trip out so I've got to get myself upstairs and get the girls. More later!
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