Vietnamese People are Tiny

So, the sterotype is true. Vietnamese people are small. Very very small. They sit in small chairs at small tables (you know, the ones that are the same size as the play furniture you had when you were 5). They can easily fit 4 people on a motorbike, with room to spare, and they crouch on the sidewalk for hours at a time.

Going to the Cu Chi Tunnels today we saw another example of how Vietnamese people are small...they can crawl through small tunnels like pros! During the Vietnamese War (or as they call it, the American War - the Communist revision of history is quite interesting....) the Cu Chi people built this extensive tunnel system that was used in fighting against the Americans and the South Vietnamese Army. The Vietnamese government expanded (actually, they doubled the size) of one of the surviving tunnels to make it big enough for Westerns to fit through. Considering Colby and I were both slightly (thats an understatement...) claustrophobic feeling in the "expanded" tunnel I don't even think I want to imagine what the original ones were like! Eeep! But, I guess it was ok for the Vietnamese....they are rather small after all.....