HAPPY NEW YEAR!

New Years Eve started out at our apartment with a few friends. We got drunk, ate food, played music, adorned ourselves with temporary tattoos, ate jello shots, and burned our New Years resolutions for good luck.


Al and Horoko:

Lua and Duc:

VK:

QA modeling a new tattoo:

Hosting like Mr. Roarke:

Drew breaks into the Jello shots:

Al reacts to the jello:

More yummy jello all around:

An impromptu concert:

Happy Lua:

Some wild animals: Bina and Jess show off their new tattoos. Jess was so excited by hers because the face looked so much like Patrick Swayze!:

We all wrote our New Years resolutions on pieces of paper and set them on fire.



Then we headed out to Sloppy Joe’s for more drinks, confetti, karaoke and ringing in the new year. (Hanoi time.) I haven’t sung in so long that I felt myself getting winded after Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer”. But c’mon, that’s a really hard song to sing!


Craig, Chantrelle and Dean, full of jello and ready to sing!:

To Anh and Drew passing the mic:

Jess rocks out.


After the karaoke debauchery we went dancing at one of Hanoi’s hippest joints. Barracuda. It’s an ex-pat bar next to the red river in a neighborhood I always get lost in. We were let off by a cab and walked for an hour before we found it. But that was all forgotten when we started dancing.