Halong...has this been going on?

We played tonight in Halong Bay at the Halong College of Culture. There was a packed house of verry appreciative and enthusiastic students and teachers. Have I mentioned the fact that we have had a packed house every where we have played on this tour? Once again we played with Vietnamese musicians. One hilarious thing is the past two nights we played Oh Susanna with them. Apparently, that is one American folk song everyone knows. They really love the tune but don't have a clue as to the words. I said I'd send them along when I get back to ol' Texas.

We've shot about 15 hours of video so far. We played two nights ago at the Welcome Vietnam festival and on live TV and they are going to give us a copy of the show. They also filmed tonight's show for TV so we'll have plenty of footage to add to our continuing docudrama of the flaming exploits of Bob & Tucker...

Tomorrow morning we are going to take a boat ride in the bay. You need to Google Halong Bay, you won't believe what you are going to see. Limestone islands covered my the deepest green jut up out of the water into the sky. It looks surreal and the boat ride takes you between these formations. There is a legend how these amazing peaks and cliffs came to be. Something about a dragon fighting another monster and water spirits and land spirits fighting it out. The dragon was cut into a hundred pieces and scattered in the bay and that's what we see today. We'll be filming a video out on the water.

So I better get to bed, we have to get up very early and be on the water by 8AM. We're going back to Hanoi tomorrow after the trip and have a long drive ahead of us. Tucker and I are both about to drop from exhaustion. We literally haven't stopped moving since we got hear and haven't had a day off. BUT...YAY - we have tomorrow night off and fly to Bangkok on Monday. It looks as though the schedule has changed drastically because of the Thai King's sister's death and the enforced mourning period. But they have filled in the canceled shows with a lot of university programs and we're playing for the US Ambassador and a lot of guests. I'll post the updated schedule and some photos tomorrow.

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OK, this is really it. 'night!