Day 177 (Sun 31 Dec) - Mui Ne
Up early to hit the pool in the bright sunshine.
Managed to bag some loungers and were soon toasting away nicely. Had a few dips in the large pool to cool off. Bit weird swimming round with a snowman in attendance in bright sunshine.
At one point Sarb heard the welcome sound of a ping pong ball being thwacked around the place. Further investigation revealed two Vietnamese players having a game. During one of their rest periods Sarb asked if he could play one of them.
Sarb and his opponent warmed up for a bit (even though rocking hot) and then launched into some games. Quite close games although Sarb's opponent was clearly a very, very good player and Sarb was just being lucky.
Sarb returned to the lounger after about 30 minutes absolutely drenched!
In the afternoon walked to a restaurant further up the coast literally hugging the coastline. Had a drink and then wanndered around the town in the afternoon. It was getting quite late and we were feeling a little peckish so stopped off at a family restaurant run by a woman called Lan.
Had a fantastic time eating loads of spring rolls, chatting to Lan and another one of her friends. Lan insisted on us trying her rice wine. Fairly potent stuff! They invited us back to their restaurant for New Years Eve although they said it would be a quiet family affair. Thanked them and said we might well join them later.
Just over the road from the restaurant we spotted a grocery store that seemed to sell some plonk. Bought a bottle of champers and a couple of bottles of wine.
Headed off back to our hotel and spent the evening relaxing on our verandah, listening to the ocean. We had planned to go out and have a slap up meal but were quite content just sitting there and chatting about what we had got up to during the last year and our plans for the coming year.
Before we knew it we'd drunk all the wine and since New Years Eve was still some way off decided to polish off the champers. Unknown to us it was a bright pink champagne! It was fairly drinkable however.
Didn't bother to see the New Year in as we'd had run out of wine, and in any case we were quite happy to go to bed - we must be getting old!
Sad thing is, we both agree that, this was probably the best new year's eve we've ever had.
Managed to bag some loungers and were soon toasting away nicely. Had a few dips in the large pool to cool off. Bit weird swimming round with a snowman in attendance in bright sunshine.
At one point Sarb heard the welcome sound of a ping pong ball being thwacked around the place. Further investigation revealed two Vietnamese players having a game. During one of their rest periods Sarb asked if he could play one of them.
Sarb and his opponent warmed up for a bit (even though rocking hot) and then launched into some games. Quite close games although Sarb's opponent was clearly a very, very good player and Sarb was just being lucky.
Sarb returned to the lounger after about 30 minutes absolutely drenched!
In the afternoon walked to a restaurant further up the coast literally hugging the coastline. Had a drink and then wanndered around the town in the afternoon. It was getting quite late and we were feeling a little peckish so stopped off at a family restaurant run by a woman called Lan.
Had a fantastic time eating loads of spring rolls, chatting to Lan and another one of her friends. Lan insisted on us trying her rice wine. Fairly potent stuff! They invited us back to their restaurant for New Years Eve although they said it would be a quiet family affair. Thanked them and said we might well join them later.
Just over the road from the restaurant we spotted a grocery store that seemed to sell some plonk. Bought a bottle of champers and a couple of bottles of wine.
Headed off back to our hotel and spent the evening relaxing on our verandah, listening to the ocean. We had planned to go out and have a slap up meal but were quite content just sitting there and chatting about what we had got up to during the last year and our plans for the coming year.
Before we knew it we'd drunk all the wine and since New Years Eve was still some way off decided to polish off the champers. Unknown to us it was a bright pink champagne! It was fairly drinkable however.
Didn't bother to see the New Year in as we'd had run out of wine, and in any case we were quite happy to go to bed - we must be getting old!
Sad thing is, we both agree that, this was probably the best new year's eve we've ever had.
posted by Jo and Sarb at
12/31/2006 11:38:00 am
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