4/20 Da Nang
The short version via pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/mpquinn/Asia2010
The narrative version:
4/7 – 4/8 Dallas to Singapore
4/9 – 4/10 Singapore
4/10 From the Ritz Carlton to the Seabourn Pride
4/11 – 4/12 At Sea
4/13 – 4/14 Laem Chabang
4/15-4/16 Ko Kood and at sea
4/17 – 4/19 Ho Chi Minh City (Siagon)
4/20 Da Nang
4/21 – 4/23 Halong Bay
4/24 Hong Kong
4/25 Homebound
Service Specific Comments on the Asia trip
I took a tour that Brook called the random village tour. She went on a shopping tour where they take you to a bunch of reputable places including places to get custom clothing. She got a silk jacket.
The random village tour is fairly accurate for the first half of the day. We start off driving to a village in central Vietnam and visiting a kindergarten. Other than there not being any air conditioning and the kindergarten being a completely separate school from everything else, it was pretty much exactly what you would expect a kindergarten to be. The kids sang us songs, there were cartoonish characters decorating the walls, and a hammer and sickle done in colored flowers on the playground. I don’t remember that last part from my kindergarten, but it has been a while.
Next we stopped (about 200 yards away) to tour an ancients house. Vietnamese worship their ancestors, and the ancients house is a temple in your house that up to the last 3 generations can be worshiped at. Ancestors beyond 3 generations have to be worshiped at a family temple, which was the next stop. To my untrained eye, the only real difference is that the family lives in a house, but not in the temple. The designs are remarkably similar, and the financial situation of the family determines the size of both the house and the temple.
After the random village, we went into Hoi An, which is an ancient city that has been turned into a shopping center 
Saw another ancients house, a temple to the gods (I don’t know a better name for it), saw how silk is made from the worm to the clothes and saw a cool covered bridge. Apparently I totally missed half the city, the part that had all the shade.
We also stopped at a marble shop, one that make the huge pieces all the way down to the trinkets. Pretty cool, but apparently since some of us just walked inside, we missed watching them carve the marble around the back. You can see the Marble Mountains from the shop where the marble used to be mined. The mining has recently stopped so that the mountains don’t disappear, and now most of the marble is imported along with other stone.
Brook’s shopping tour went to all the places my tour did except the random village, but she got to see the tree lined drive of Hoi An, the stone carvers in the back of the marble shop as well as lots of custom clothing shops and a silk embroidery shop. I am glad I saw the random village, but joining her on the shopping tour would have been quite fun.