8th day 5th month 2016th year

Today we went on a bike ride. It was not a real bike ride. We got to sit in the front and Vietnamese man push us on the bike at the back. Only 2 people can sit on the one cart. We had to get anther cart. The bike ride was 1 hour.  We got to go around the Old Quarter of Hanoi.

At the end of the bike ride we stopped near the lake and we got lunch. We ate Bun Cha. That is rice noodles and a soup with mini parties.  We also had Spring rolls. I liked the rice noodles and the patties but not the soup. Dad and Jakey had a chillie contest. The chillies were birds eyes and I think Dad won.

In the afternoon went back to our hostel for a rest.  After that we went across the road. To get ice cream. Mum got a coffee and dad got a mango smoothie.  Then went back to the lake in a taxi. We bought tickets to go a temple in the middle of the lake. It was called Ngoc Son Temple.  We then went to a water puppet show. There was lots of music and there was 5 water spitting dragons and two fire breathing dragons. I only like the dragon bit. The rest was boring because it was in Vietnamese and didn’t understand it.  After the show went to Geko for a drink.  After we had dinner.  My favourite food from dinner was steamed meat dumplings.

It was Mother’s Day