Although saying this they do have another 4 days yet so lets not tempt fate!
We had a very busy month which I'm now about to tell you about. Firstly it was Christmas Eve. Me, Matt, Sophie and Kelly started the night at our friend Jonathon's house. His mum (who is the chef of a massive restaurant somewhere in America :S can't remember where!?!?!) cooked us some amazing food and we drank much wine! After a lovely dinner, lots of cheese and Fuzz humping my leg we left and entered the funniest taxi journey I've had in my life. Completely intoxicated we started to spread Christmas Love from the windows of the vehicle. The people of Vietnam LOVED IT! We even made a straight face traffic policeman laugh! We then had an awesome countdown in AK (which I'm really upset is having to close on 23rd January due to a moody bitch living opposite in a shed not liking the noise. I think she's just jealous she doesn't have a really cool bar!)
Then came CHRISTMAS DAY.
We finally decided on dinner at one of the big hotels - Moevenpick. It was amazing! There were rows and rows of food and not just Christmas food either. I pretty much just ate lobster, truffles, cupcakes oh and a bit of turkey and gravy (sometimes all at once). YUM! It was also free flowing alcohol which of course we all made the most of the Cava. Especially Matt who was WASTED. So wasted in fact he danced around the restaurant and proceed to shimmy behind the desk where the receptionist was on the phone to give her some Matthew lovin'. It was pretty funny because he was in his pajamas too.
Then it was the arrival of the boys! I feel they were welcomed extremely well into Saigon. They all got so drunk they didn't get up until 5 the next day! I thought drinking 2 buckets was enough. but Carl has showed us that he can happily sink 4 and still be OK!!
New Years Eve day we all went to the water park. IT WAS IMMENSE. I nearly died of a heart attack about 4 times and once from a major wedgy that nearly cut me in half. One thing you need to know about Vietnam is there is no health and safety. If they want to build a house - they build one the next day. If they are building a house and scaffolding falls of the building - the attitude is SHIT HAPPENS. The water park is no different. Some of the rides literally had no sides and nothing to catch you if you fell off. The only thing the workers were concerned about is Ross's zip on his pocket. It may scratch their slide!!!
So the one ride that gave me 3 heart attacks in a row was The Boomerang. Basically a 3 seater rubber ring dropped over the top of a drop slide and goes straight up the other side. Matt put me at the front because I was the lightest and we would go faster. JESUS CHRIST. I thought I was on Oblivion at Alton Towers. It's a definite must go though!
Later on we went for a nice sophisticated NYE dinner at The Refinery, a french bistro. The food was lush! We then decided to turn the clock back 10 years and go and buy vodka from a shop, pour it into a water bottle with coke and walk the streets of Saigon for the count down.
The street party on Nguyen Hue was awesome!
We learnt how to say Happy New Year and kept on saying it over and over! Matt and Carl bought some fake snow spray to make it really feel like home :S . The countdown was AWESOME! Lovely gold confetti rained over us for about 15 minutes. YAY! Now it was time to party hard. I can't really remember what happened next, but what I do know is that it involved singing in Welsh, a massive bag of quail eggs, hitting Matt with a rose and then ending with Matt knocking himself out by falling down the side of the bed. A productive night I feel.
Carl, Ross and Laz left us on NY Day to go up north but they soon returned. Well two of them anyway. Ross went off to Phu Quoc Island, which he said is amazing. One beach had white sand for miles, no hotels and only 2 beach bars. Sounds like my kind of place!
Me, Carl and Matt decided to visit the War Memorial Museum. I recommend it to all tourist but be aware it's the most soul destroying place on earth. You will see pictures of dead Vietnamese soldiers and innocents. Aswell as read some horrific stories of what American soldiers did to them in the war. Very interesting though totally anti-American.
I've now brought you up to date. Yesterday was Matt's birthday which was of course eventful. We started at 3.30pm and finished around 4 am. Matt's still in bed now and it's 5pm. I think he's slightly broken. Nothing a swim won't fix though!
I'll put a few pictures on here because Facebook's banned in Vietnam right now.
Chuc Mung Nam Moi! xx
