My first 'Air plane plane' holiday

30 Apr - Morning 5.30am, we woke up coz our flight to Ho Chi Minh was at 7.50am. Yeye came to send us to the airport. Yawns .. I am half asleep. but I was too excited to be sleeping. This is my first flight .. and since I am not yet 2 yrs old, I got an infant fare, but this also means I have no seat. Luckily the flight was not full, we had the 3 window basinet seats all by ourselves. Nice :) Upon reaching HCM, Daddy's fren Uncle Vinh came to meet us and brought us to an authentic Central Vietnamese lunch. It was mainly rice cake .. all sorts of rice cake. Than, we did some shopping, and went to a cafe to enjoy Vietnam Ice coffee; definitely better than Starbucks :p

01 May - Today, we went on a tour to Mekong river. Tho it's only abt 120km away, but due to the Traffic, it took 4 hours by bus. I slept thur' almost the entire bus ride .. hehe. When we arrived, we took the bum boat and cruise along the river. We also went to see how coconut candies are made, and rice crispies. Lunch was at a very nice restuarant along the Mekong river. Tho' it rained heavily for abt 15min, and we were trapped inside the boat, but it was still a fun trip seeing how the local live by the river .. soo diffferent fm how we are in Singapore.

02 May - Today, we visited the Cuchi tunnel. This is an underground tunnel that the Vietnamese dug during their war with the Americans. Using very primitives tools, they dug more than 200km long tunnel, where there are traps, air holes etc. We were allowed to try and go thru' a part of the tunnel which we did. Some areas were pitch dark, but I was not afraid. In fact, I was the only one who was able to WALK thru' it. Mummy and Daddy had to duck walk coz the tunnel was only abt my height. The bus ride back to HCM city was very bumpy and I can tell that Daddy was going to faint from motion sickness. Besides, the seats were only big enough for kids and both mamee and daddy have to squeeze into the seat. After a long 3 hours trip back, we had lunch at a nice little cafe. auntie Hrin's driver then picked us up and we had some much needed rest in the room.

03 May - We started the day at 7.00am but I was still asleep when daddy and mamee prepares to go to Mui Ne, a beach resort northwards of HCM city. The journey is gonna take 4-6 hours!! oh my buddha! We started the journey after having breakfast in the hotel. We stopped at one of the village to try to buy some DVDs to watch in the mini bus and Daddy chose his favorite Stephen Chow movies and some dumb american movies. The movie they watched was called "Americanizing Shelly", I think its a dumb show so I decided to sleep...:)

When we reach Mui Ne, we checked into a Ocean-side bungalow. Oh man! It's really super nice. We are practically 3 metres away from the waves of the big ocean. We can hear the waves from within the room. Once daddy and mamee settled down, we had lunch at the resort restaurant. guess wat!? There's a swimming pool with slides and I just couldn't wait anymore. While daddy, mamee and their friends were eating, all I had in my mind is how i can quickly start my swimming!? hahaha!! All i got then is a scolding and beating from my daddy because I keep screaming and disturbing them from having lunch. :P

Once we are ready to go swimming, we headed towards the beach as auntie Hrin and the rest wants to check out the sea sports. However, I think they freaked out when they see the big waves.kekeke..

4th May - Mummy woke up with a bad tummyache. Maybe it's the seafood dinner she had the nite b4. But we still went ahead to the sand dune, supposingly to see fantastic sun rise. Unfortunately, it was cloudly, so eventually, we did not catch the sun rise. But it's still an experience walking on the sand dune. We felt like Tang Shan Zang and his disciple in Xi Yu Ji :p

The journey back to HCM was another 5 hours. Upon reaching, my poor mummy vommited, and ran a fever. Daddy n me decided to let her rest in the hotel room (aka forsake her) while we go SHOPPING !! All in all, we bought 7 Daddy's tops, 2 daddy berms 1 bag and a pair of Ed hardy shoe. I had 1 beach short, 1 top and 2 pairs of shoes. We did not forget mummy, we bought her 1 top :)

For dinner, Uncle Spencer reckon we had too much Vietnamese food, so brought us to a very nice Al Fresco Western cum mexican restuarant at the Sheraton. My fav part abt the restaurant was that they placed large drawing papers on the dining table and a cup of crayons. So I was bz drawing while the rest enjoyed their dinner.

Mummy is still not well, so we went back to the hotel after dinner. Daddy joined his friends at the Jazz club and the Casino, but this time round, I stayed and pigged in with mummy.

05 May - We are going home today. Did some last minute shopping for coffee powders, and visited their local market, Ben Tahn Market. Our flight was 2.50pm and after a short 1 hour 45mins flight, we finally reached HOME.

Home sweet home .. Home is still the BEST !! Nite nite.