Life Lately

We've been back in Vietnam for over two weeks now and we haven't really been up to too much. Apartment hunting and sorting out our work permits has been our main priority.

Stacey told us about a cool restaurant in the backpacker area that's really cheap and good value for money. While we were waiting for our bike to be fixed we went and tried out some chicken burgers. 

We've been hunting for an apartment to live in and with that you get to see some great places, some ok places, and some 'how on earth do you expect to rent this place out??' places. The one apartment had a glittery basin in the bathroom!

We went to go and see Jurassic World and we got a Minions popcorn combo. We now have a Minions lunchbox which is so cool!! Not to mention the major street cred we're going to have with our students.

Ross has been doing loads of shoe testing lately, so he's received a few new pairs of running shoes recently. Here is his latest pair:

Our new school is called the American International School (AIS). They've recently built a new campus which has held just an elementary school until now, but from this year the high school has moved out there too. To say it's over the top is putting it lightly. It looks like a palace or hotel and it has really big school grounds (for a Vietnamese school). We aren't working at this campus, but will be at a much smaller campus in town. 

We always love a sweet treat and decided to try out Gloria Jeans the other day. It was delicious!

We spotted this great family vehicle at the shops the other day!

Tom and Stacey have very generously allowed us to stay with them while we look for an apartment. We went to an old faithful Vietnamese restaurant the other night. The menu is in Vietnamese so we weren't quite sure what we were ordering, but the food is always good so it didn't really matter!

We've decided that we'd like to have a poker evening some time soon. Stace and Mel are a little bit rusty, so we had a practice round the other night. We rounded up all of our 200, 500, and 1000 dong notes and shared them out so that there was something at stake.

Soon much money! (Ok, about R10)

 We love a good deal, so when we were deciding what to have for lunch and saw a buy 1, get 1 free sign outside Carl's Jr we couldn't resist. The burgers are huge and quite nice, but we were super excited to try the fries with mayo and bacon! Unfortunately they were a bit of a let down.

Rugby season is always a fun time here. We went down to our favourite pub (Harry Casual) for some drinks and what we hoped would be a Springbok victory. Unfortunately it wasn't to be but, we had a good time anyway.

Our favourite thing about New Zealand (besides seeing family and friends, the beautiful scenery and pies) was the flat whites! It's the perfect coffee. We were super excited when we went out for brunch and discovered them on the restaurant's menu. There was a storm brewing so, even though it was mid-morning, it was quite gloomy. The aircon was also quite cool so we tricked ourselves into thinking we were still in New Zealand. If anyone in the Phu My Hung area is looking for a flat white... Eden is the place!

We finally found an apartment!! We searched for two weeks and nothing really came up. We'll give you a tour as soon as we move in (they need to re-paint and fix up the kitchen a bit). After we signed the lease we went to Dunkin Donuts to celebrate!