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Hey all!!! We have sooooo much to write about!
Well, we had 2 fantastic days in Hanoi before heading to Halong Bay. Its a crazy city, we have posted two videos of the traffic, strange but we are?used to the madness now after Cambodia and Thailand! We have bought lots of cds for 20p each for when we go to New Zealand so that we can play them in our camper. We then went to see the water puppets with 2 irish girls that we had made friends with. They were great! Garry especially loved them! We had some lovely ice cream, Garry was more interested in the name of the shop though, fannys hehehe. We havent seen that many sights in Hanoi as we now have 5 days here so plenty of time to see everything!
We headed to Halong Bay on Wednesday (we were glad to leave out hotel in Hanoi, we had a few probs there such as toilets flooding themselves, arsey staff that tried to skank us for every penny and the staff stealing some of my knickers when we put our laundry in!). We got to the harbour and boarded our boat. The bay was lovely and calm and it was soooooo nice to get away from the hot and sticky weather. Halong Bay is quite chilly so it was a nice change! We sailed to some caves and explored those, we then went to a fishing village and a beach where we saw some huge jellyfish. We had our tea on the boat with our group then slept on the boat for the night. The morning we left for the trip we had spoke to an english guy that had been on the same trip a few days prior. He told us how he had been woke up in the night by rats, some had even got into his room, ran along his curtain rail and jumped onto his bed!! Our boat was lovely and clean so we thought we'd have no probs, how wrong we were!! We were woke up by scurrying alongside our cabin and i freaked out!! The boat has turned off the engines so we couldnt even switch a light on, thank god for Nan buying us torches!!!! In the end we sropped off to sleep again after flashing the light around our room to check there were no rats. We then got woke up again by them scratching above our cabin, by this time i was pretty much hysterical!!! Anyway, none got in our room but we were kept away most of the night by them (which didnt bother me i just didnt want them to come in and jump on me!!!) The next day we went to Cat Ba Island and did a trek through the forest and then kayaked in the afternoon to Monkey Island. Kayaking was amazing, but really hard work, the paddle was well heavy!! Garry was really proud as he managed to snap his paddle in half, god knows how!!!! We will upload more pics and some vids v.soon
Dad - You have become rubbish at messaging me again, havent heard from u in a while!! HOpe all is ok
Ben - Thanks for the message, the parcel has got home now so you should have your pressie soon, let us know how u like yours, we thought it was well funny!
Aunty Helen - say hi to vicky for us! Glad you like the piccies, seriously its amazing here, the pics dont do it justice!
Mum - ive emailed you about the parcel, hopefully u havent ate all the sweets??? 6 packs of mentos are meant for work so if you could give them to aunty mand that would be great. If youve ate them dont worry just let me know and ill send some more when we send our suits from hong kong xxxxxx
Maz - Is stance back at f and b?!?!?!?!?!!?!? Hes crazy!!!! Cant believe they gave away free food, seriously not missing that place!
Nic - Cant believe you are back already, the time has flown by its mad! Wea re off to oz on 8th may, but to be honest im not really looking forward to it, dont wanna leave asia, its brilliant here! but im sure we'll have a good time in oz too :) Glad you arent going back till after your sis's bday, mines 26th jan so youll be around 4 that 2, yay!!
Aunty Don - Did you have a good birthday? Thanks for your message, hope you had a great day!!
Nan and Grandad - You should both def def come here, cambodia too. We will def be coming back sometime in the future! Hope you have a good weekend away
Tre - Thats great news about Phil!! Dont blame you doing some temping work, im so glad to not be waitressing anymore!!! Thats rubbish about the rota, seriously tho i feel soooo less stressed since ive left there, Garry 2! Glad you are enjoying following our trip, its going to quickly tho!! sob!!!
SMITH - Happy Birthday!!!! I would have emailed you but you havent left your email address and you arent on myspace any more. Let us know how your day goes!
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