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Did sightseeing again today!! Woo! Actually seeing some of the country and not just 'drinking out way through Asia' anymore! Although we are still doing quite a lot of that too :/ At least it's cheap to do here :)
We went to City Hall, it's a big grand looking building opposite the Notre Dame Cathedral! It's full of all sorts of everything you can imagine, a mini department store part to it, selling perfumes and cosmetics, and loads and loads of tat shops selling souvenirs! There seriously is too much crap here I want to buy but just don't have the space in my rucksack, I think before I go home I'm gonna have to buy another rucksack to stack full!! :I can't carry it all around with me now though my back will snap with the weight of my whole life's possessions dragging me down... We looked at shipping a 20kg box home from here too and it's around £40 and takes 2-3 months, I don't think it's worth it when I can fill a bag full and carry it on a plane home myself for free?
Notre damn was closed again! Even though the times on the front entrance made no sense whatsoever she told us to come back at the same time tomorrow? Err... No! Stop wasting my valuable drinking... Oops, I mean 'travelling' time! :D
Before we walked back home we went shopping for something new to wear for tonight, I have zero clothes left and still haven't got round to having them cleaned... :/ my rucksacks such a mess! On the plus side i think this means I'm cured of my O.C.D however ;) Bought a Calvin Klein T-Shirt for £11! It's beaut but £11?? Annie bought a dress for £6! And SHE was complaining that HERS was expensive? Try being a boy! My life is so much harder :(
Before getting ready we went to eat down our street, actually tried somewhere new instead of going to the same old restaurant as every other day! To be fair it was only because we couldn't be bothered to walk and it said that it was the best pizza/Italian restaurant in Saigon!...The most boring pizza I've ever had! So rock hard that it nearly snapped my knife in half when trying to cut through it! I got a spicy chorizo and spinach pizza, having the blues from eating the chorizo pasta in NaTrang and it was no comparison by far! :(( We always do this, go do long eating at stalls sticking to cheap noodles and rice and crave western food do we hype our selves up for it and it just doesn't taste the same!
I also tried a Vietnamese tea, with lemon and sugar, the one I had in Sapa before our trek tasted amazing but this one wasn't the same :( partly because it came with lime instead of lemon and salt instead of sugar? Who knows!
Next time we get a fridge in our room I'm gonna attempt to buy some cereal and milk and have a bowl for breakfast but don't know of I can bring myself to eating cereal with condensed milk! Il give it a try ;)
Got talking to Rhiana and Bree, next to us, they just arrived here and are travelling S.E Asia before working in Oz for a year! Doesn't sound too shabby!! :o
Made plans to take them to 61 Club with us tonight :) we went home, got ready and met them an hour later and pre drank... Yes, you guessed it, at the cheap stalls down our street ;) also the two guys from last night who recorded us for there website joined us again :)
Bree and Rihanna are hilarious! (I have to say this as they are reading our blogs) Only joking we really do love them, Bree just says whatever she's thinking and like us, has no shame! When we described the toilet attendants in London that sell you perfumes on nights out she shouted "oh yeah, in SouthHampton we call them BOGWOG'S!".... Slightly embarrassing when we're sat in the middle of a busy street with black people mixed all around! Gotta love her though!
We also got talking to a couple next to us, an Australian guy with his Asian/American wife! They were so much fun and she was telling us lots of exciting stuff about what to expect when we're in Singapore! Although, she was so wrecked she could more than likely of speaking a load of bull!
After More than enough 60P vodka orange's here, (and a disgusting vodka red bull that I certainly didn't order!) the 6 of us went to 61!
We met so many cool people, many i don't know the names of, plus Zorro and all of his friends... I remember hardly anything from this night but from what I can make out, purely from looking at photos the next day is that we danced on poles, broke shoes, lost shoes, I ate shoes? Piggy-backed, tippletailed/rollypolly'ed, broke beer bottles in the middle of the dance floors, danced with prostitutes and almost set fire to the gods shrine!
What a civilised night, as usual ;)
I think not! I do remember that we didn't get our promised discount though, I think he said something about only on weeknights and not fri/sat! But as if we're gonna come on a Monday, right? Oh wait... We've been here like every night! :S
Oh yes, How could I forget, Annie also thought it appropriate to be sick on my leg when I was checking if she was okay, leaning on a tree in the street! Me Bree and Rehana went to eat with Zorro and his friends... Looked everywhere for Annie and the other two random guys with us, but after checking around the corner of the club plus inside, they were no where to be seen so we assumed they had already gone to eat!
When we got there we sat at this packed out street stall where the food is actually really good, and presented well and still cheap! :D I tried quail egg! Little did I know it was raw! But still just tasted like cooked chicken? They assured me first it wasn't dinosaur of course so i came round to the idea! It was a first for Zorro and his friends too and I don't think anyone was too keen! An understatement for Bree who was borking at the sight of eating an actual winged foetus! Had I been sober I would have been sick at the thought too and probably not just ate it up... :/ oh well, when in Vietnam! :)
Bree had to try something new too so she very wisely decided she would drink a a shot of chilli sauce! Sooo funny! The only thing she had left to wash the taste away with was soy sauce! Nice!
After an hour or so here of eating seaweed and spring rolls, teaching Bree how to eat noodles with chopsticks, and all sharing noodles doing the lady and the tramp kiss across the table, we'd caused quite the scene so time to leave, and Annie still wasn't here! That girl doesn't listen when she's drunk!
We all eventually made it home at 5:30am! Annie was in the room but fast asleep so had to walk back down 16.4 million flights of stairs to wake up the security guard after having already woken up the whole hotel banging our room door! He opened it with a spare from downstairs and walked in to find her partially awake, (she claims still fast asleep) yet eyes wide open and checking her Facebook on her phone?!?! Creepy!
Still couldn't sleep! ...At 5:30!!! I think my mind was in overdrive! Maybe it was the redbull? I was up all night long until 11:00am writing blogs, and thinking about how much fun I'm having here and how much i think I will really regret it if I just go home and don't try and get a temporary job here or something, just for a while! We still both don't know what we want to do from here, I'm just in one if those annoying moods where I feel I need to make some decisions in life! How drunk please!!?!?!
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