21/01
Today was a better day. Stayed up last night to watch Obama's inauguration so woke up at 11am. Left the house at about 11.30 with Mike, Dad, Mum and Thai (my cousin). Went to this decent pho place for brunch.

Then we spent the rest of the day walking around the city... checked out the massive Catholic cathedral (which seems to be the only sign of Christianity I've seen so far like last time), post office, city hall, then went around Reunification palace. Again a crazy amount of motorbikes everywhere and many amusing sights.

Walked around a bit more and checked out the markets, didn't buy anything. Went to this market//restaurant place for dinner which had a massive menu. Food wasn't great though.

20/01
Only thing that happened today was we picked up Mike. Dad fell really sick so he spent the whole day recovering.

19/01
Didn't do a great deal in the day, pretty much spent the whole day waiting till 4pm where one of my dad's nephews came to take us around.

Anyway, so we went off to Ahn Vang's working quarters... he's the head of a medical research facility and some of the machines they had were worth heaps! After walking around a little, we finally went to Mushroom hotpot for dinner.

This was really good! Varieties of beef liver mushroom...and other sorts of mushroom. It tasted heaps good. Afterwards we went to KFC and had soft serve which tasted terrible.

18/01

Woke up 9ish and went by motorbike with uncles to eat some pho. Was heaps good and really local. Didn't do a great deal the rest of the day... Reading a book about Psalm 23 and continuing with Bible in a Year. Going through Genesis Bible stories and you see how twisted people become for greed's sake.

Went for a walk after dinner and it was ridiculously crowded, then rushed home for some visitors.

17/01

Took a flight at 9am Sydney time on Thai Airways. Fell asleep on the plane straight away. Watched Clone Wars and food was decent.

Arrived in Bangkok at about 2pm local and had to wait 4 hours for transit flight to Saigon.

Ate yummy green noodles and walked around airport.

Finally arrived in Saigon about 8pm local, met a few relatives and rushed off home. Ate nice porridge and some other things.