so while i was on vacation

i was travel dreaming.

i flew to vietnam on monday. totally slept through the flight. fly into saigon, my family meets me at the airport. we go to a small village just outside of the city. there is a large picnic table and tons of food. my grandparents and their siblings are on one side, cousins and younger people on the other. there was another lisa. most of the younger people spoke english. after we finished eating one of my cousins takes me to another village where they were trying to hang terredackdyl (i don't know how to spell it and couldn't find it in the dictionary) bones in the cypress tree. they had been blown down in a storm. the tree was a place people would visit to hang their wishes on. the older people started to go to bed and my cousin and i went into the city. she took me to a place that was a house/bar...kind of like art palace. and in the middle of the room there was a chandelier where people hung wishes as well. after the bar closed we walked through the streets of saigon (bad neighborhood) and got on a bus home. i had to fly into dallas the next day. i got to dallas on wednesday, and i was flying back to saigon on friday. then i realized that my passport expired in 1999 and i couldn't really understand how they let me fly there in the first place but i knew i needed to renew it. i went to city hall and filled out the paperwork to have it expressed...there was a kinkos in there so i went to get my picture taken. then i called my dad and asked him for the money to pay for it. i only had like, 20 bucks in my pocket when i was in saigon . when i got my passport the background of my picture was red and white gingham, and my hair was long and green, brown, purple and white.