Since Thach Thao and Phuc don’t have school anymore there’s no need to
wake up as early as before so around 7 am sounds pretty good. I get up, go for
my shower and get ready for breakfast. I hear the kids upstairs and I know that
in a bit, Xuan will come down, when she does it, we go first to the market and
then breakfast at Lady Bulldog. It’s a special day as I managed to make a photo
with Lady Bulldog and even her husband! She’s always with a bad face but today
she laugh for the 3rd time in 4 months when asked for the photo.
After breakfast we go and do our thing: Highlands coffee shop. We
don’t need to order anymore our cà phê sữa đá as the waiter already knows us.
We stay there for a bit while drinking the coffee and also a bottle of water,
as it’s very hot. Today Xuan as a couple of stuff to do so we don’t stay long
there, around 10.30 am we leave and head to Ben Thanh Market so I can go buy
the watch for Gustavo. We manage to get a cheaper watch than the one we had
seen yesterday and looks exactly like the original one. When we finish our
negotiations Xuan leaves me at Saigon plaza so I can go buy a couple more
shorts and a pair of leggings I’ve seen from Forever 21. I walk around the
market until I find the place where I bought my shorts and buy 2 pairs more,
dark jeans and blue, then continue walk around and find another place with pink
shorts with my number but before buying I try to negotiate, as I’m not
successful I leave and go try to find the stall where I’ve seen the leggings. I
try it right there and buy them in a minute, the leggings are really nice so I
don’t even argue the price. I head back to the stall where I saw the pink
shorts and try once more negotiate with her, fortunately the girl where I
bought the first shorts show up and after a little talk, I manage to have the
shorts cheaper than before.
I’m happy with my shopping so now it’s time to head
back home and I do it gladly walking through the park.
When I arrive home I just have time to seat for about 5 minutes and
then it’s time for lunch. Later will go visit the Bitexco Financial tower, the
tallest building in HCMC, so after lunch I relax a bit while watching some TV
shows.
At 5.30 pm Xuan, the kids and me leave the house to go to Domino’s
order a pizza for me, I’m craving junk food and what better than eat a pizza
that I can not have in Portugal? So we arrive there and I go order my pizza and
I like pineapple on my pizza, so when I finish my order a girl arrives and
tells me they don’t have pineapple… no pineapple, so how they sell all the
other pizzas they advertise with pineapple, guess the answer is with no
pineapple. I can’t believe in what my ears are hearing so I just cancel my
order and leave… how they don’t have pineapple?! In this country there’s more
fruit that I ever seen, and sweet one, so why they don’t go to the market and
buy it? Don’t get it… my craving for junk food finishes right there so I jump
on the motorbike and we head to the tower.
After buying the tickets we head to the 49th floor and when
I see the view I get without words…
After walking around and making a couple of pictures, we head down and
because it’s raining very much we head to the little shopping mall inside the
tower.
We walk around a bit and I make some pics of Xuan and the kids and then
it’s time to brave the rain in order to be able to leave the kids at home and
go for dinner.
So… after leaving the kids at home, we go for dinner at the stalls in
front of the market at the roundabout, we order noodles that are made by
Chinese-Vietnamese, which means the way they’re cooked is different of what I’m
used to.
The food is good and, for the first time I see a cute Vietnamese! This
kid as 22 years old but as a really nice face and lots of style, my kind of
style. When finish our meal, Xuan gets avocado for us and we stay there talking
a bit with the kid and waiting for the heavy rain to stop.
Then, when the rain
slows down for a bit it’s time to head home and while jumping on the motorbike,
I’m proud to say that a guy while speaking with Xuan says I have 18 years old…
I laugh but I also get very pleased, 18 years old… I guess the guy needs
glasses! Hehehehe
At home, I take a shower and go to bed. I watch a couple of TV shows
and then fall asleep…
Night night everyone, sleep tight don’t let the bedbugs bite!
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