Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Part of History!

It's our last night in Vietnam (yes, very behind in blogging) and we didn't know the Olympic torch relay was in Ho Chi Minh City tonight, April 29!


We walked around a bit this afternoon, picking up some last minute things and the security is out of control. No Tibet protesters to speak of, but we did see quite a few pro-China flags and massive amounts of people.
Streets that normally look like this:
...were closed off to look like this:
We've been lucky to be able to follow most current events on BBC or CNN so we've heard of the craziness following the Olympic torch.

3 comments:

weezermonkey said...

Ooh! That is exciting!

wan said...

so cool that you were there for the torch relay :)

R said...

What timing! Now you can tell your grandkids how well traveled and cool you guys are.