Day 11

Today was another day of chance meetings.  It always amazes me when a decision or unexpected event results in getting you exactly where you need to be at the exact right time, and that happened to me twice today.

The first time I was wondering around the Old Quarter looking for a place to eat breakfast when I made a decision to look for some new DVDs (which I did not end up getting).  If I hadn't decided to go look at DVDs, I would not have run into Pastor Scott (one of the Cats from Los Gatos) who was enjoying a Xích Lô ride. Because I ran into him, I was able to meet up with the rest of the group at their hotel right as they were about to leave to visit Hoa Lo Prison.

We got lost on the way there (because our taxi driver did not know where we wanted to go) but I pulled out my map and got us to the right place just in time to see Ted walking by! Turns out he had not gotten the memo that said the meeting place for lunch had changed from Hoa Lo Prison to the hotel.  Had we gotten to the Prison earlier, we wouldn't have run into him to tell him about the updated plans.

Pretty cool how that stuff works out.