(Sept 26) - The boat offered Tai Chi at 615am this morning which we had every intention in the world to do but then we decided to sleep when we woke up at 610 :) Maybe tomorrow.

We did eventually get up and grabbed breakfast (a buffet with everything). Then we headed out for our day on the water. We took a smaller boat out to Soi Sim Island. Once we arrived we climbed to the top of the island (~200 steps) to get some great views of the bay. We broke a crazy sweat doing this (hot + humid + steps = lots of sweat). The reward was that we could swim at the beach on the island for about an hour. After swimming we got back on the boat and moved over to Lan Ha Bay near Cat Ba Island. We switched to kayaks here and took them out for about an hour. This was pretty amazing as we took the kayaks through some small caves that let out into some secluded bodies of water inside the islands. Yvonne and I decided to jump out of the kayak and swim in one of these totally enclosed lakes. We were the only ones in our group to jump out and swim :)

We took the kayaks back to our smaller boat and went for a swim there too as we waited for lunch. We got to jump off the top of this boat as well which was a lot of fun. We earned our lunch.

After lunch we boated back through the bay to meet up with the cruise ship again. This took a little more than an hour but was really relaxing with the great views. We took a little nap and then headed up for another night of sunset party, dinner, and hanging with Glen and Abby for some card games.

The whole day was great, maybe one of the best days of the whole trip so far. This has turned out to be a really unforgettable cruise. We've also been fortunate to meet some good people which makes it fun to share the experience with.

Swimming In The Bay

Dan Golembeski