Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Vietnam - Splash Damage


I'll be honest, not a lot has happened today apart from recovery. We have now remembered some more snippets from last night like how we started the crowd cheering excitedly at a balloon in the sky or when Tim decided his feet were dirty so washed them in a toilet. Then there was the beer haggling contest where the Vietnamese we were with tried to get us cheap beers and failed but Tim came up trumps.

Any way, on to today. We got up in the afternoon and went downstairs to find that all of the hotel staff were still hungover despite only having two glasses of wine.

We went to KFC for a cure which helped, but we were both sleepy so we decided to go to the water park to fix that.

We took a taxi there who rammed a motorcyclist on the way and started swearing later when there were some police in the distance. Still we made it in one piece.
Flaming Banana Crepes, sounds rubbish
but tastes amazing

The water park was busy with it being a national holiday but we still went on all the slides. They're all designed for small lightweight Vietnamese so when we had a go we set some new world records for speed and distance. On one slide we cleared the splash pool at the bottom and slammed into the wall on the far side!

Of course our celebrity status continued at the park with people crowding to see us on the slides and zip ropes as well as standing next to us to see how tall we were (we were still the tallest).

We headed back to the hotel after to plan our excursion for the 5th time, we found out loads last night but neither of us can remember what!
We went back to the American restaurant that we'd burned down a few nights ago as the food was good and was pleased to see that not for the first time, the Americans had pulled out of Nam as there were none in sight.

Based on our celebrity status we decided to start our own
beer called 'big man beer'
Walking back through town we found a massive food festival for the first time. Despite having just stuffed a massive steak down us we were both drooling at what was on offer. We were good though and just made a note of where it is for tomorrow night, Tim fancied the snail and octopus dish whereas Mark liked the look of the prawn crackers.

Football now, 10pm kick off, so we're in the cow bar watching four premiership games at the same time, why can everyone apart from England show live game??? We like the cow bar, it's always prostitute free though you can bring your own as part of their BYOP scheme. 

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