Someone in our group finally got in touch with a person (real person) at the consulate to figure out what's what with our visa apps. The only information we were able to get was that it was possible that Hanoi would get the report from HCMC tomorrow. If they get the reports early enough tomorrow, they may be able to get us through the 2nd interview tomorrow and get our visas by Friday -- which would put the entire group out on time. If we don't get our 2nd inteview tomorrow, we probably won't be leaving until Monday at the earliest.
We decided to get up and go out shopping today, and were out of the hotel for about 6 hours all told today. We went up and down several of the streets and bought several bags worth of stuff (no descriptions, since something could be for you). We ate lunch at a place called Bobby Chinns (http://www.bobbychinn.com) which had some really good food. We've heard of their macaroni and cheese, and it was as good as advertised.
In the back of everyone's minds here are the two typhoons that are cruising around the South China Sea. If we were to get out on time, we still may be severely impacted by those two storms. Typhoon Lekima is moving inland just south of Hanoi. We've been getting bands of rain from this storm for the past couple of days. It looks like that one is early enough and weak enough that it's not going to hurt too bad.
Typhoon Krosa, however, looks like it's going to be another story. It's a pretty big typhoon and it's projected to be somewhere between Hong Kong and South Japan by this weekend (that's quite a large range, but they expect it to be right next to Taiwan). The rain and wind from it may / will probably impact travel out of Hong Kong on Saturday if we're actually able to leave then. Maybe staying until Monday or Tuesday of next week wouldn't be that bad of an idea.
I think that's it for today.
Dennis
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