Hoi An, Vietnam

Feb 26 – We decided to go to Hoi An today.  It is only a 30 minute taxi ride and is the main reason we have came to Vietnam.  Hoi An is as advertised, it is awe inspiring and really relaxed for the most part.  Our Homestay is nice as we have an extra room to stretch out into, the boys have made this their race track room.  On our way out to check out the markets we were approached by a English guy.  He was “giving” away these tickets, some promotion.  Well Danika and myself won a hat that he said we could go to the river later and claim.  Renelle then opened hers and “won” either a iPhone X, 7 nights accommodations or $250.  The kids really wanted to check this out so we agreed to go.  It was a time share spiel.  Anyways after being whisked around Hoi An, a free lunch, some drinks and getting to see their “members only” resort we declined investing $12000 USD and took our prize of 7 days accommodations.  It was interesting at least.

We then checked out a bit more of Hoi An.

Kids found a bouncy castle again.

Japanese Bridge at night

Feb 27 – We spent the whole day checking out Old Town, really cool place.

Us people watching.

This lady asked us if we wanted to take pictures.

It was heavy.

And then she asked us if we wanted to buy some bananas.

Feb 28- We decided to go to An Bang Beach.  As we walked onto the beach a lady asked if we wanted to sit in her loungers, all we had to do was buy lunch from her restaurant.  Seemed fair to us so we sat and the kids enjoyed the ocean.  We got some drinks and then our kids were hungry so we sent them up to sit at the restaurant.  They ordered a pizza, fries and smoothies.  The lady was really harping on us about us eating as well.  We said we would eat in a little bit.  Anyway, Renelle ordered Spring Rolls and I was not hungry so didn’t order anything.  We had three workers around us, almost yelling that we did not order enough.  They said that a pizza only counts as one meal.  It was intense!  After us trying to explain that our kids cannot possibly eat three pizzas and us threatening to leave they calmed down.  It was brutal!

Renelle and I had a walking Food Tour booked for the evening, so the kids had an electronic evening in our Homestay.  The food on our tour was phenomenal, we went to many specialty places,

White Rose production.

I tried Balut (it actually was not that bad),

we ate at a lady’s house,

Spring Rolls

Fresh Spring Rolls

Quail Egg Pancakes

Tapioca and banana

The cook (in apron)

a boat ride and even got to play bingo, a special game only played in Hoi An.  There were only 4 of us in our group and our guide Jackie was amazing! – Shawn