The month that was

So the past few weeks have been busy but at the same time, things that we used to think were 'blog-worthy' kind of seem normal to us - so we've been rather quiet on the blogging side! Luckily we have a couple of trips coming up so we should be back to our regular posting soon. In the mean time, here is a bit of the last few weeks in review.

Our friend, Kim's father-in-law visited Siagon. We met him and his fellow travellers for some breakfast and then a bit of shopping! It was so wonderful to hear some South African accents and hear about things back home. Kim was also kind enough to send through a whole lot of Mrs Balls Chutney for us! It's gone down a treat.

One of our colleagues recently introduced us to a bar that sells German beer. We went with some mates and Ross ordered a big beer. The first time we went, that meant a 500ml beer. This time he was brought a stein! It was HUGE!

While in traffic, we saw this guy carrying a motorbike on his motorbike! There are always crazy things carried on bikes and we constantly wish that we had our camera to snap pics.

Mel made paper lions with her class. They were a HUGE hit and the kids had so much fun!

Roar!

A new beer club opened up really close to our house. They have all you can drink beer from 4.30 - 7pm for R50! It's rather dangerous, hence the reason we've only been there once. They have a bunch of number plates on the one wall and there was an "NP" and a "DRB" one so we had to snap a pic with them!

Saigon had their annual Oktoberfest a few weeks ago. We were rather excited and got outfits made and everything. We'll have a full post on it as soon as we get the photos!

We had some errands to run in District 1 so we decided to have some lunch at the first hotel that we stayed at when we arrived. We had chicken pho which was amazing!

A Haagan Dazs ice-cream shop has just opened at the mall near work. We had to try it out and we each got a rocky road sundae. Well, they were amazing. They had cookie dough and Dutch chocolate ice-cream with marshmallows and wafers! Luckily it's quite expensive so it's definitely a place that we'll go to for a treat once in a while, but for the sake of our wallets, we wont be going too often (our waistlines will also thank us!).

We didn't feel like cooking the other night so Mexican food it was!

Halloween is quite a big thing here in Vietnam and in celebration, Dunkin Donuts is having a promotion of a hazelnut dunkachino and a ghost donut for only R30!! Of course we had to try it out.