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Good Morning, Vietnam!

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Good Morning Vietnam!  Waking up to the beautiful sunrise of Vietnam.

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Our timing and sleep patterns are a little different and we are feeling jet lagged.  We woke up at the break of dawn due to this difference, and luckily because of this we got to see this beautiful sunrise.  Then there’s the beeping of early risers on their moped.  After a few hours, we got to start our eating.

At breakfast, we ate broken rice with grilled pork, braised egg, and steamed egg meatloaf (Cơm tấm Sài Gòn = cơm tấm sườn, bì, trứng, chả)

After breakfast I snacked on the fresh fruit of Vietnam that I love so much! Rambutans, Logans, Mangosteen, and Guava.

Today will be a slow restful day at home visiting with family and planning our trips.  Our only plans today is to go up to my grandparents gravesite to pay our respects.  It was really hot up there, and while Sophia was riding a motorcycle she had a helmet and dust cover exactly like a Vietnamese girl.  She also has the ‘non la’ – the Vietnamese conical hat.

Dinner was my uncle’s (I call him dad) birthday so we got to eat more.

So a few of you have asked that I list out the dishes in these pictures.  Blood snails, small razor clams, various varieties of other clams in a coconut juice, frog legs, Vietnamese soy sauce chicken wings and I sampled a bunch of different beers in Vietnam.

 

 

 

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I’m Huong Nguyen, a headstrong woman who is a passionate advocate for raising compassionate, brave, smart, open-minded, globally-aware children through travel. I’m married to a very smart man named Ryan Nabors who loves me very much and I have an adorable opinionated little girl named Sophia. My family of three travel both internationally and domestically. We have family and friends all around the world and we plan each trip to be a blend of educational, cultural, and culinary experiences with the goal of making real meaningful connections with other people.

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