First day in Vietnam

We arrived in Vietnam yesterday afternoon, via a 6 hour bus ride from Phnom Pen. As soon as we reached Saigon it began to rain lightly, but just as we reached our hotel it turned into absolute down pour. In a matter of a few hours the streets were flooded in 6'' of water, and all the scooter riders were soaking wet. Our hotel is quite nice, and the staff are helping us to arrange our buses and hotels for the rest of our time in Vietnam. This morning we left at 8:30 for the Cu Chi tunnels. This was the tunnel system used by the Viet Cong while fighting the Americans. We had a tour guide who took us through the tunnel system, and showed us many different points of the Viet Cong defences. The tunnels were quite small. We went through 100 meteres of them on our hands and knees. After the tunnels we got the opportunity to shoot different guns if we wanted to. The options included m1 grand, m1 carbine, m16, ak 47 assult rifles, as well as m30 and m60 light machine guns. It was quite expensive so I couldn't shoot all the guns, but I chose to shoot the biggest ones which were the m30 and m60 light machine guns. It was so much fun to shoot an automatic machine gun with that much power. We than returned to the hotel and then went out for dinner. The Vietnamese food was great, and very cheap. I had prawns, pork, and rice. Tomorrow we are going to a museum on the Vietnam war and a few other interesting tourist attractions around Saigon. Then tomorrow night we will take a night train up to a city on the coast where we will spend a few days on the beach. We will be sleeping on the bus, they have small beds. We are in quite a large city, and it seems strange to see Christmas trees and snow flakes in the windows of lots of the shops.
I hope everyone has a great day.