Yummmm yum!

We ate at a street stall type thing with the locals last night.

The dish is called Com ga ("caam gau") and is chicken, rice, onions and mint as far as I can tell, but it tates SUPERB!

Also I quite enjoyed the authenticity of eating with the locals and the lady who owns the shoe shop which I got all my shoes made at saw us and came and paid for our meals! Soooo nice eh!
It was cheap for her of course, but such a nice gesture :) AND she gave us a ride back to our hotel for free.

The girl on the front desk has aqcuired my lipgloss too :) She really liked it and swiftly pocketed it when I said she should keep it! Only cost 500 yen from Family Mart (like a seven eleven in Japan), but she was sooo stoked with the meagre half a tube, so I'm going to send her some more from here.

Was so awesome to eat out last night as really felt part of the culture for a tiny bit whilst all the other tourists waddled past dressed up to the nines and lined up outside their familiar Italian restaurant. They dont know what they're missing though, I mean we've had just the BEST most AWESOME food trying all the vietnamese stuff - it's soooooooo good!

It's windy, cloudy and maybe rainy today, but we are still going to the beach because Lauren as I've said, is from Ohio and it's 13 hours drive to her nearest beach, so she would like it even in a hurricane.

I am a bit spoilt coming from New Zealand because we have such great beaches - got a bit excited about going home last night. Think it's coz everyone here asks where I'm from and I've met other kiwis....and coz we've seen the beach - will be summer at home soon!

Can't wait to wear the great jackets and boots I got made here in Tokyo during winter though. I really hope it snows this winter - I know it'll be cold, but it'll be novel for me!

Oh yeah I've been learning some Vietnamese too, "thank you" sounds just like 'Come On' in English! Feels very funny to say it as doesn't feel polite at all :)

We've both been reading books by travel author Bill Bryson too - have you read him? VERY funny. I'm reading one about his travels through Europe to inspire me for future adventures.

It's called "Neither here, nor there" and I totally recommend it. It's one of those snuffle and chuckle to yourself outloud kind of books, very conversational easy to read style - I love it :)