Ho Chi Minh Day 2 - Tiniworld & Ben Thanh Market

I had to go to the Vietnam office today. I had been worried that I would oversleep and woke up to shock when I saw the bright sky outside of the window! Was I late? Luckily not. The sky brightens at 5 am in Vietnam! It was 5ish and I doze on and off to 7 am. Lil Shauna was up at 6am, complaining that she was bored. Luckily Mr iPad came along with us and boredom is something that he could easily handle. Hoho.

We all had troubles sleeping in. The 2 ah mas came over at 8pm and they all headed for bfast. I munched on sandwiches that I bought the night before and got ready for work. The driver would be picking me up at the hotel at 8.30am.

The office was about 20 mins drive away. It didn't feel that far, just that there were quite some vehicles on the road and traffic was a little slow at times. On the way to office, I saw that  there was quite some food places, including a japanese place near to our hotel and made a mental note for dinner place tonight.

I couldn't get connectivity until the afternoon and found out that the family was already back at the hotel. They were supposed to head to this indoor playground that some seem to fave about on the Internet - Tiniworld. I had high hopes but was told that it was really tiny. They spent about 3 hrs but was totally worth the price. With all the fun, it was less than 200k VND, about S$13. I was also informed that Lil Shauna was down with fever this morning for no apparent reason. She had taken 2 doses of fever medicine.

My work ended at about 3 on and I came back to the hotel. Daddy Lim and the kids were just back from swimming. The kids spent another good 10 mins soaking in the tub before we headed out for an early dinner. We had Japanese food at the Japanese restaurant that I spotted this morning and the food was delicious! Before dinner, we had some fun at the playground in the park opposite our hotel with other local kids.

The boy fell asleep during dinner and we had to wake him up using ice cream. They have Baskin Robbins!

We attempted to go to the Ben Thanh night market again but were too early - the night market hasn't been set up yet. We eventually brought some fruits from the make shift stall and headed back to the room with 2 tired kids. Popo bought us lychee, which is in season now and super sweet and yummy!

Given that we had an early morning, we headed to bed at 8ish. We would be heading to the Can Cio Ecological Park the next day. I hope it is good. We have booked an expensive private tour. Good night Ho Chi Minh.

Mummy Lim