Today we flew into Ho Chi Minh, or Saigon to the locals...which is slightly confusing to us visitors! As tends to happen after the trauma of packing up and relocating...we spent most of the forenoon in our gorgeous hotel. Backpackers we are not...we've been there and done that...and are traveling in much more style than we ever did before we had kids. The 'Grand Hotel' is a beautifully restored older hotel with the mandatory pool, which helps keep us all sane as the boys have somewhere to unwind and relax (and so do we!) we did wander around a little at night...it's amazing how different a place can look when it's beautifully lit up at night. We ate a relatively cheap meal at a local restaurant (the boys protesting that we should just eat at the hotel...I hope we aren't bringing up kids with champagne tastes...can't wait until they have to pay their own way!)
It is our 16 year wedding anniversary today and we had planned on visiting the roof top bar for a cocktail but Grant has been feeling unwell for a couple of days and I fall asleep reading my book by 9.30pm :)
Photo of the day, jan 3
When we arrived here in Vietnam and traveled to our hotel late in the night, I had a moment of feeling absolutely terrified...should we have brought our children to this foreign place? Would we be safe? Were we placing our beautiful boys in any danger? I was of course, totally exhausted...and just a little overwhelmed.
I watched Charlie gazing out the car window on the way to the airport today and wondered what he thinks of this unfamiliar place....or perhaps he was just trying to remember who's turn it is in the window seat of the plane :)
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