Day 116

Today we wake up around 7 am as we have to go meet Diem Manh for breakfast, so when I wake up I go for the shower and get ready to go. A little bit after Xuan shows up at my door and we go by motorbike to the Highlands coffee shop at Saigon Plaza.

We seat at the only 2 tables available and wait for Diem Manh to arrive, we also order breakfast. When she arrives, she comes with her Australian boyfriend Mick, a surprise for us that were only counting with her. She looks much better since the motorbike accident, in fact, if she doesn’t say she had the accident no one notice the scars. We have breakfast and then stay there talking until it’s lunchtime.

Diem Manh wants to take us to lunch so while she goes on the motorbike with Xuan until Ben Thanh market, Mick and me walk there. We arrive at the same time and head to the food court, when we find a nice stall with nice food we seat and Xuan orders pork ribs barbeque for everyone and orange juice for Mick and me. When we finish lunch, Mick wants to buy a hair accessory for Diem Manh so we go around until we find a beautiful one. Diem Manh is feeling tired so we get a cab for her and Mick and they go back home, Xuan and me stay so I can go buy Carlos Rosa watch.

After buying the watch we leave the market and head home where I talk with my parents for a bit, show them the new shorts and hear all the funny stories from my cats, like when I start talking with my dad today, Moochie went to wake up my mother so she would also come to the computer to talk to me… such a clever cat! =)

We don’t spend so much time home as after a little bit, Xuan comes to my room and tells me she needs a massage and I’m not a no no lady so, of course, I’m going to the massage. Number 27 does a number on me leaving me so relaxed that between the time of leaving the massage parlor and arriving home I got so sleepy and lazy that I need to rest my eyelids for a bit when I get home. I watch more the Vampire diaries episodes, hoping that the plot starts getting better to the end…

Around dinnertime, Thach Thao and Phuc go to the park with chi Mi and Chi Lam, I take one of the best showers of my life and Xuan’s niece shows up to have dinner with us. Scrambled eggs and rice it is, with a bowl of soup and I’m done… I’m ready to go back to my comfort zone!

After dinner, the kids arrive and I head back to my room. I turn on Skype and I’m speak with my grandparents and my parents, while we’re talking they make me realize that this is the last time I’ll be talking with them via Skype as in 5 days I’ll be on a plane back to Portugal. My grandparents seem ok and even if I don’t like to see my grandma crying I understand her; she’s happy I’ll be back and I have to confess I’m also a little bit happy as I’m starting to miss home and my family too. It starts to be late so we say our goodbyes and I go back to The Vampire Diaries.

Night night everyone, sleep tight don’t let the bedbugs bite!