Preparations for our Vietnam trip.

 Well, Amy and I are getting ready to go off to Vietnam and a couple of weeks. Amy has booked a trip through gate one travel and my only job was to get us our travel visas. That turned out to be a little more work than I thought it would be. I could go to a Vietnamese consulate if there was one nearby, which there is not. I could pay $500 and send our passports off to Washington DC to hopefully be returned with the Visas side. Or, I can pay $25 per person and use the E Visa option on the Vietnam immigration website. Does seem like the best option! So last night I started that process and after and hour of loading passport photos and cell phone jcopies of our passports, I paid for mine thought I was pretty dang cool. I did the same for Amey, but when I tried to pay for hers, a message popped up that said credit card denied. I tried again and got the same message. Then it said you need to contact your credit card company. I'm thinking to myself, oh my God I have been scammed. So at 10:30 at night, needing to go to sleep because I had to get up at five in the morning, I called Chase Visa. I was directed to the fraud division, and thankfully they told me that they were alerted that I had tried to charge two identical charges on the same card with different names in the short time, which looks like fraud. I had not been scammed, in fact the system at work for me. Both visas are paid for and should arrive in three days at a total cost of only $50. Let's hope they work! Going to Vietnam does not mean you have to bring jackets and fancy clothes. A few pairs of shorts and a couple of T-shirts and some good antitheft gear and we will be all set!