Day 8

It’s Valentine’s Day! But ours doesn’t change that much because of it. We go for breakfast at a big fun park and for the first time I eat a Vietnamese American breakfast.

We spend there the all morning, as it’s a very pleasant place to be. Lots of green, outside, we can watch Fashion TV and the fall/winter 2013-2014 Men’s runway and Thach Tao and Phuc have a little pond where they can fish plastic toys with a magnet.

The kids are happy for being able to run and have fun, essentially for being kids! =)

We head home and after leaving the kids, Xuan and me go around trying to find a store open where we can buy a car for Phuc but almost everything is closed as they’re still celebrating Chinese New Year. We find a store and besides a police car who makes sounds for Phuc, we also buy a Stitch for Thach Tao and a tiger face mask for me.

At home, lunch is on the table and we have fried squid, steamed rice, soup and vegetables. I’m on a water day so I’ve only been drinking water and I’m going to stay that way. Been very healthy since arriving here: no fast-food, no cigarretes, a coffee a day and lots of vegetables.

Time for a nap ‘cause tonight there’s a party dinner at home and lots of funny people coming.

Xuan’s family and friends start arriving and I’m helping with dinner. I cut green beans, I beat dry fish (not successful at all) and I help with the table. We’re ready to begin with beef, veggies, steamed rice, chicken barbeque, grilled squids and fish sauce. To accompany the food, the grown-ups have wine (at the end of dinner I count around 6 or 7 bottles of wine drank) and keep my water diet. For desert we have watermelon and ice cream.

We finally end the night with good laughs as one of our dinner guests decides to sing and dance… that’s what a singing Vietnamese looks like when they drink a little bit too much…

That’s it, night night everyone!