The first thing I asked myself after waking up was, “What Day is it?” Yup, I just checked. It’s Tuesday, Jan 17th.

We noticed a sign last night that stated breakfast was not served after 10am, but our host assured us they would serve us breakfast at any time, considering we had arrived so late! Why we were awake by 7:30am beats me!, but as I ventured downstairs I wondered if our friends Julie and Mark had arrived. Indeed they had. Mark had already finished his breakfast and Julie was soon to join us. I expressed the need for coffee and was served a teeny, tiny cup of java. It was really good but ever so small. Number one on the shopping list. Go in search of coffee and a good-sized coffee cup!

We all decided we needed a short morning nap to conjure up enough energy to go for an afternoon walk. We ended up walking to Hoi An’s Old Town (approximately 3.8KM). While there we bought our $6US Tourist tickets to enter (more on that later) and slowly poked around.

It started to rain, so we found a spot that had larger plastic chairs and enjoyed another beer waiting for the rain to subside. On our way home we stopped at one of the restaurants we had noticed along the street and tasted our first soup bowl of some type of meat (we think it was chicken) and noodles. A couple of days later we discover it wasn’t the best but for this day it became our lunch and dinner because after our hike home, we all crashed and went for an afternoon nap that continued through the night.