My very good friend Lauren Obermueller’s time in Vietnam was finished.  She was over from USA doing a 6 month internship with Habitat.  Lauren had a very early flight on Saturday morning so she decided to stay up the whole night so she could sleep on the plane.  Trang and I decided to help her with this by going on Operation Midnight Ghost Ride, we started at about 10:30pm.  I had read of a route in the Vietnam Coracle so we used this as a rough guide.  First stop was the Thu Thiem Bridge.

This bridge gives a great view of the city.  From there we were to go into the tunnel however the tunnel is closed to motorbikes after 10 pm, not sure why, so we had to do a diversion and we ended up at the billboards that overlook the city.  This is a lover’s hang-out.

From there we went towards Cat Lai and then over the massive bridge, Phu May to District 7.  Along the way we found this club, we really wanted to go in there.

Not sure if it is similar to a ‘Man Cave’.  By this time we were getting very thirsty so we drove back to District 1 and went to a coffee shop and sat and watched the night life.  Across the road there was a McDonald’s so we then decided to go have a bite.  Now this place was busy, but not the people you would normally find here.  Yes, of course there were the people having a midnight snack after partying, however there were also families here at 1:30 am.  There was a baby and kids about 2 years old that had drank way to much red cordial and were bouncing of the walls, not literally and as you guessed, scouting and screaming.  We gave the parents a few disapproving looks and they moved, didn’t go home, just moved tables.

By this time we were getting tired, so we decided to go home.  The city was pretty quiet by now.  Photo courtesy of Lauren.

We dropped Lauren off at her apartment and said our goodbyes.

It was a great last night to share with Lauren and I will miss her company here in Vietnam.  Good luck with the job hunting.