A nice little lie in today and so when I get up for breakfast Elias has already left and so I have some noodle soup with Tea and then just explore the city. It's much hotter here, with it being further south, and so I remember my earlier experiences with Mr Chaff and so a reduced pace is the order of the day. We walk through the streets, absorbing the hustle and bustle of the biggest city in Vietnam. Tea is looking for an iPod cover, so this involves looking in all the little shops along the way. HCM has a lot more little alleyways than other cities, and so it is fun just wandering down one to see where it leads. Often with little guest houses, masage parlours and houses lining the alley, and of course Motos flying up and down, even though there is barely the space.
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For some reason I am still pretty tired today and so I retire to my bed for most of the afternoon. I think I really needed it, sometimes it is nice to just have a good long sleep. By the time I wake up it is nearly dinner time and so I txt Elias, Spencer and Tea and see who is interested in eating. Elias and Spencer have already gone out and so Tea and I head out. We take the short walk past the night market and get to this place that does BBQ. I am salivating at the thought of all the meat that I am going to get. We order up a veritable feast. There was beef with cheese, chicken, pork and vegetable kebabs and fish. I am so stuffed by the end of it, especially by the addition of rice. I think I was able to eat more than normal because we had to cook all the food ourselves so it was dinner, drip feed style. On the way home Tea looks in the market for a bag. They are even charging her a small fortune, even though she is Vietnamese. They can tell from her accent that she is not a local, and so it would appear that you need to be a true local to get the real price. I head home after this for some more sleep, as clearly I didn't get enough today. Ha