I update you from the confines of a lovely oversized hotel in Hoi An, which is pretty much the cutest little Ancient Asian Town in Vietnam. I HIGHLY recommend getting your ass over here some time to check it out. Plus it has awesome tailors currently making the three of us 6 suits, 1 custom jacket, 10 pairs of pants and 29 business shirts, plus 1 awesome custom shirt Spenny designed, along wtih 2 pairs of custom shoes. P.S., the tailor organises our own taxi to take us all over town, free of charge just because we are awesome and spent craploads of money with him. Its like our own private little servant!

Anyways, I write this as I am about to head out to a nice little cafe for breakfast (only a few hours late) and food is on my mind... It has been a pretty interesting time food-wise over here in Vietnam... from burgers and pasta to Pho, curries, bbq grills and random hotpot combinations, it has been good. Oh, and did I mention the beers and Vietnamese coffees?

Well, Spenny has a pretty interesting habit of looking over the menu and automatically ordering the most vile sounding weird animals on the menu for us before we have a chance to stop him.

So what have we ordered?

Wild Boar.

Deer.

Goat.

Snails.

Frogs legs (twice)

Roasted Field mouse.

Snake.

We turned down the offer to drink Snake and Scorpion wine. (As I write this, Spenny is sitting next to me shaking his wrist and hand inappropriately - he says it is his watch - I'm not so sure to be honest. BUT, Spenny literally just asked when we turned down Snake and Scorpion wine and sounds a little upset because he wants to try it - case in point.) Thankfully, we only saw the last two on the menu in Nha Trang (not a bad little place - not as good as Hoi An though). After ordering Snake and Field Mouse, the waitress came back after a few minutes to tell us "Sorry Sir, all out of Snake", and "Sorry Sir, all out of Field Mouse". I did ask why she couldnt just catch and cook us a regular mouse, but she wouldn't do that.

Fortunately we are heading back to Nha Trang and can re-order snake and mouse. Unfortunately that is EXACTLY what Spenny will order. Apparently he isn't going to rest until he samples every beast on the planet.

Oh, and in other news, we met a dog in Nha Trang called Gappy at a restaurant. She was a lovely little playful puppy that ended up biting Spenny and drawing blood. I have never seen Spenny more concerned with catching an infectious disease in my life.... he was panting, red faced, eyes full of concern. HILLARIOUS. The only time I have seen him more concerned is, oh, I don't know... pretty much EVERY MEAL when he drags out his oversized bottle of hand sanitizer from his pocket (I dont know how he fits that bottle in his pants - and I'm not asking). But without fail, every meal... sanitizer. Walking down the street... sanitizer... touching the locals... hand sanitizer.

But back to the dog called Gappy.... I asked the restaurant owner if she was called "Gappy" because she was filling a blank spot on the menu tomorrow. Apparently that joke just isn't funny over here...

Ahh, fun times.