Day 18

Sleeping outside in the countryside it’s not easy peasy, that’s what I’ve learned after tonight. Too much light, many crickets singing, dogs barking and moaning, birds singing and motorbikes crossing everywhere.

Anyway, we get up; get ready and go for breakfast near the freeway. It’s raining but it’s a warm rain that after 15 minutes stop and we’re dry again. We have noodles soup and we’re ready to go on our way.

We all jump in the car and drive to another city a few km away from the village. This city is also messy and chaotic in what refers to traffic.

We stop for a coffee while waiting for Xuan’s friend, a Vietnamese who lives in Australia. As he arrives we finish our drinks and go meet his family. Right away they offer us orange juice with sugar and salt and biscuits.

Once more we all jump into the car and now we’re 10 people inside! Nothing new for us as we’re used to it. =)

We head to a park along the river with lots of vegetation, fun stuff for kids to do, a pool and some other entertainments. It seems to me a vey touristy place even if it’s beautiful.

We play a little bit with Thach Tao and Phuc and then they go for a swim at the pool while we order lunch and start eating. Vietnamese chicken wings, traditional fish soup, steamed rice, veggies and grilled fish come to the table.

After lunch it’s getting late so we go on our way to HCMC. The traffic is insane, with cars breaking in the middle of the freeway, motorbikes changing tires, mess everywhere and so we take hours to arrive home.

Everyone’s tired but we still have to go for dinner, the kids stay at home while Xuan goes to get take away noodle soup and we’re going to the barbeque place once more. Till and me are the only “long noses” in the place and communication is not easy but with gesture and chicken noises everyone get along. Xuan arrives a little bit after, we eat and we go home.

Time to go to bed as tomorrow there are classes and we need to be awake.

Night night peeps!