Things they didn't tell you about

Now matter how hard I push the children into putting a bit more effort into their blogs they are basically pants. So here's a few more what we dids.

We hired a dragon boat to take us up the Red River to visit the Thien Mu Temple.

It was actually rather less charming/romantic than it sounds. We were in a dragon painted rustbucket (They pretty much all are, the high humidity and river water plays havoc with both metal and wood.) and trawled our merry way up the the very murky river. Caitlin sat there thoroughly bored with the entire affair and  Cade stared out of the window gleefully pronouncing which of the riverbank houses was doomed to plunge into the rivers manky depths at any minute, charming child.

The temple itself was lovely, with gorgeous, tranquil gardens, the entire effect was spoiled somewhat by vehicles screaming past the front steps, blaring their horns at the foolish tourists (me included) that were daft enough to stand in the road to take pictures of the pagoda. Talk about fair game.

We did visit Hue Museum, only to find that the curse of the museums had struck again, it was closed. The kids did have time for a good rummage around the tanks etc in the gardens. When we left, we nearly lost Cade as he was inside an M41 tank and didn't hear us shouting.....or so he says.

We managed another trip to the swimming pool before we had to pack to leave for Hanoi.

I had to put this picture in, Shorty just looked so cool.

By the way....Hue airport is a very, very, VERY boring place to spend a few hours. I was even thinking fondly of my 18 hour hangout at Bangkok Airport three years ago. At least there you could get decent ice cream, and coffee that won't eat a hole through your stomach lining. The only thing to be greatful for was that their a/c was working - unlike our hotel room for the first two nights.

Well, we have to go for dinner, this will involve braving a pretty hefty thunderstorm (already gotten drowned once today...soooo not looking forward to a repeat performance.)

This'll be our last entries, it's our last day tomorrow and we've got some last minute shopping to do (yes, I know Cade, suck it up!) then I have to squeeze our booty into the cases so we probably won't be doing anything else exciting.

Em