Monday, August 10, 2009

Happy Birthday Nhan

So today after the boat tour me,Albert,Genie, Diem, Jan took a taxi back to the hotel to so we can make it in time for nhan's birthday surprise. it was seven o clock when we left the hotel and nhan said she will not be back until 8, so we thought we had enough time to grab dinner buy her a cake and then surprise her, but as Prof Biggs said in class here in Vietnam things never go as planned. so after getting some pho at a local restaurant we started to bike towards the cake store and just as we left the restaurant my pedal (which has been shaky for a while) suddenly falls off. thankfully it did not happen when we went up the bridge or in the middle of the intersection, Xuan would of killed me (she was riding on the back the whole time). This is the part where it gets even better, so we go to a local bike repair guy that was right around the corner. At first, I thought it would only take about 5 minutes to screw the pedal back on but it took him almost half an hour. about half way through me and diem decide it would be best if we went to get the cake first but both of the stores we went to could not provide with the cake that we needed so we had to go back empty handed. by the time we got back the bike repair started to work on another one of our bikes that no one asked him to. that took another 20 minutes, finally when he was done with Diem's bike he started work on Albert’s bike (at this point Jan and Johnny had removed their bikes so he doesn't grab them and "repair" it) just as we thought that it was over we paid him and started leaving, as we started to pedal our way out Diem's bike would not move so we had to wait another ten minutes for him to fix it. So, in all he took about an hour to fix our bikes, fixed the wrong bike, and fix the wrong bike wrong, and then he even tried to rip us off at the end(we even had enough time for Kung Fu lessons)(o and Johnny almost lost a tooth). This guy ruined our plan a but luckily we were still able to take nhan out to get some ice cream.

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