Day 115

Saturday but, as busy ladies that we are, we have to be ready early. Its 7.30 am when I get up and go for the shower, at 8 am Xuan’s already ready and I have to be faster. When I go downstairs, we hop on the motorbike and go towards District 7, we’re going to Miss Hoan for breakfast, then go around district 7 and finally we’ll end at the tailor’s so Xuan can get measured again and we’ll also pay the clothes that were already delivered.

When we arrive to District 7 we always get lost so we call Miss Hoan to meet us and when she arrives we go for breakfast. I must be a VIP as she takes us to the White House coffee shop. =)

Xuan orders prawn noodles soup for me and prawn and liver noodles soup for her and Miss Hoan. Their noodles arrive and mine guess they’re forgotten in the kitchen ‘cause Miss Hoan has to call the waiters a couple of times until they bring my food. After we eat breakfast and drink our cà phê sữa đá we go back to the motorbikes and go around a bit.

District 7 is a new and rich district so it’s completely different form the city center.

While we’re driving around I make a couple of videos and photos and, of course, we always end up shopping so finally we stop at Crescent mall and go window-shopping.

At 11.30 am we leave the mall and head to the tailor where we have our counts settled and Xuan has her measure taken again for the clothes that are still not done. When we’re finished we go back home and I’m able to speak with my parents before lunch, who ask me to check a couple more of things here before leaving. Xuan calls me for lunch so I say bye bye to them and go downstairs.

After lunch I grab my stuff, Chi Mi calls the motorbike taxi guy and I go to Ben Thanh market to check the price of the watch my friend Carlos Rosa wants and to get the other stuff my parents asked. I don’t buy the watch right away as it’s a bit pricey but I ask to have it put aside for me, then I go check a Dior purse and these people are crazy, they ask me almost 100€ for a fake! I just leave empty handed and walk home.

When I arrive home I feel tired and I need to rest so I head to my room, lay for a bit and watch some Vampire Diaries I had missed. I’m thinking I’m going to try to be a couch potato for this night but my plans get ruined when Xuan tells me we’re going for dinner with some of her friends. Well… I’ll have plenty of other times to be a couch potato in Lisbon so, around 6 pm, I start get ready and dress some fancy clothes and put the make-up on.

We go to a seafood barbeque place near the Phó Lè street; Xuan’s friends start arriving and we start eating.

I have lots of fun and an interesting talk with one of her friends, we spend a very nice time, which also included some people dancing in the middle of the street while the cars and motorbikes were passing by.

Near the end of the dinner I start feeling sick, big headache growing and starting to feel very nauseous… Xuan’s friends are drunk and happy and want to go to the karaoke but I feel so bad that I tell Xuan I’m in no conditions of doing it. We say goodbye to everyone with the promise we’ll meet soon for a karaoke session and head home.

At home I just go directly to my room and just want to lie down. I dress my p-jays and curl in bed while watching one more episode of The Vampire Diaries, which is starting to be a big mess and I‘m not liking it! I like the romance not the crazy supernatural stuff…  I like Damon Salvatore being the badass and bad boy not a softy!

Anyway… night night peeps!