With exams for the kids over, time was not as important, so the city is was. We decided to try a Mexican restaurant called Gringo's particularly since we had packed all those cookies into Gringo's boxes, but that's another post.
As it turned out I had been there before but the food and the Margaritas were good so we all had a great dinner.
We left there and headed down Nguyen Hue. We stopped at the Tax Center as Matthew wanted to check out something but while Matthew checked out the lenses, the 5 of us, (yes our family is a family of 6 again and I love it) never made it much past the entrance as we all got enthralled with the competition that was running in the foyer. OK this sounds boring but it was the funniest thing - a bunch of kids were taking part in a competiton similar to "freeze" - you know the game music plays you move, music stops you stop - if you move you are out. Well these kids were very serious competitors, one in particular was amazing, the judges would come and put there faces right up close to his face and this kid did not flinch. Tension was mounting as it got down to the final three, I honestly think the tension was coming more from the promoters and judges they could not get these kids out. In the end the awarded all 3 as winners - but when they tried to give the awards, a prized mask and a yo-yo, the competitors still would not move, they placed the prizes into the hands of these kids who just let them drop to the ground - they thought it was still part of the game. By this point us and everyone else watching were in hysterics - they literally had to push these kids off the stage. I will add the whole thing was in Vietnamese so we could only guess as to what was going on but sometimes words are not important.
Anyway we decided to continue strolling down Le Loi stopping occasionaly to check out some of the stores, including the Converse Store just for you Sam, one shop even had shirts that we wanted but unfortunately not in our sizes.
We then decided to have a look at the Jazz Club, I just love that kids are allowed pretty much anywhere. We had a drink and listened to some really good Jazz, who would have thought we could find a great jazz club just walking down the street. Time to move on before Josh decides he wants to learn the saxophone. Down to the night markets of Bin Thanh but night market shopping you really have to be in the mood for so we decided that we would all p
refer coffee and cake, which sounds simple enough but not so simple in Saigon.Bella knew just the place, after a quick phone call we grabbed a taxi and headed off, unfortuantely we never did find it, half an hour later we gave up and headed back to NYDC at least we knew where that was, half an hour driving around in a taxi though, thankfully it is Viet Nam so it was a total of 66,000 VND about $3.00 dollars.
Anyway it was now almost Sunday morning so time to head home. We had a wonderful family night out, something to cherish.
