Saturday Dinner at La Residence

After a long two and a half weeks, we decided to dress up tonight and stop in at Hue's new five star hotel called La Residence. Its owned by Accor Hotels, a French chain, and it has a really great restaurant as well as a nice pool. In a town where dinenr usually costs about $3, its a little bit crazy to spend $40 at a hotel like this; but the food is incredible, especially if you try the French food and splurge for a bottle of wine. Scuppy had fun, too, as they have a kids menu and supplied her with crayons and coloring paper. We ate during the kiddie shift at 6pm-8pm, so it was quite fun dining out together. We ate dishes we wouldn't normally order in the States, things like grilled veal and roast Australian lamb.

Another great thing about empty French hotels in VN is that you can be totally
goofy and casual without having to worry about a French waitstaff giving you a hard time. We're getting into week three starting tomorrow as I get ready for class on Monday. This is the mid-point for the class, and I suspect after next Friday we'll really start speeding into the final home stretch as we have a trip planned to the former DMZ two weekends from now and then we wrap up the program after that.