Life lately

So... this blog has kind of taken a back seat lately. It's been quite hard to keep motivated as we try to be positive in this space and recently, we haven't really been feeling all that positive. We arrived back from an amazing time in Cambodia and Thailand to two taxis being taken (by people pushing in front of us), the place we wanted to get food from was closed and when we got home, we had no electricity! Someone decided to turn it off while we were away, so we were welcomed home by a fridge and freezer full of rotten food (goodbye 1kg of biltong).

We also haven't been up to too much, since we're trying to save as much money as we can for our trip to New Zealand. But anyway... here are some pics from what we've been up to lately and Cambodia and Thailand posts are coming soon.

Vietnam loves to celebrate and make displays for any occasion that they can. For International Women's Day, Crescent Mall made a Vietnamese hat out of Vietnamese hats!

We absolutely loved the food in Thailand, so we're on a mission to find a pad thai that matches up to the ones that we ate there. We've tried one and so far and, disappointingly, it's no where near as good :( The hunt continues.

Rugby season is in full swing and we try to watch games when the time difference allows it. We were running some errands in District 1 and Craig messaged to see if we wanted to go and watch a game, so to Phatty's we went! Mel had the most amazing chocolate milkshake! Seriously, don't order a beer at the sports bar, order a milkshake.

After loosing so much biltong, we were distraught! Luckily, Aunty Jacqui sent over a biltong maker for Christmas and we decided to finally put it to use (we were waiting until we finished the biltong in our freezer). Unfortunately, the plug was a three prong plug and Vietnam uses two prongs! To make things worst, the lightbulb fitting was a bayonet and Vietnam only uses screw-in! Ross did some 'Magiver-ing' and changed the plug and light fitting and set about making biltong. After a successful, and delicious batch of biltong, we decided to try our hand at some dried mango, which also worked out so well. There will definitely be lots more biltong  and dried fruit in our future.