Hanoi Day 3

Woke up and without getting out of bed, pulled back the curtains and had a lovely view of sky, sea and islands. Ahhhh. Climbed on the top deck for a short stroll before sitting down to breakfast.  One couple was late, we didn't notice and thought there were 2 extra fried eggs, and calmly helped ourselves to 1 extra for Jo Ern.  Hehee.  Well we didn't know they'd fried exactly 1 egg per paying passenger!  Luckily when the couple finally emerged, they didn't make a fuss and just helped themselves to more bread.

After breakfast was a visit to a pearl farm. Quite informative and seeing the end-to-end process was interesting.  Of course it as pretty much an excuse to try to get some sales.  I noticed NOBODY bought anything!  And was thinking that if this was a group of Asians, sure people would be buying this and that!  The mother-of-pearl deco and pearl jewellery didn't seem too expensive, just that I'm not really into pearls. 

Are we buying this thing?

Wow these are big plates. Must be for big eaters

Back to the ship for the cruise back to the mainland.  Pity we had to check out soon after the pearl farm visit, or it'd have been really nice lying in bed and enjoying the scenery.  Anyway, enjoyed the same scenery from the top deck. Reached the mainland in time for lunch - overall the food on this trip wasn't great.  Jo Ern accepted a few spoonfuls.  Hubby said she'd be a few pounds lighter after this holiday!

Reached the hotel after 4 hours... a quick shower and then out to the streets for our last night in Hanoi.  We had seafood at a roadside hawker again.  This time we were more aware of what we were ordering so didn't get a surprise when the bill came!  Jo Ern... aiyo this kid. There was a small boy (belonging to the hawker) sitting on a step behind us eating some bread from a bag.  He left for a while and Jo Ern swooped in on that bag.  Hubby managed to stop her but she kept going at that bag.  Luckily a relative of that boy noticed and pinched off some bread for her.
 

These were plain boiled, but the chilli dip was good

Jo Ern with her ill-gotten bread...

This bread is nice. Want some?

We walked around after the seafood, had some more street food and shopped a bit.  Noticed that Vietnamese seem to love children.  Various vendors were interested in playing with Jo Ern!  They happily posed with her, wanted to carry her, handed her assorted things to play with.

Yay Mummy is buying me this cute baby turtle

Hey, who's this person...

Went to bed early again.  Haha what to do, Jo Ern K.O.-ed in hubby's arms already.  This little one fusses about eating but she's hardly any trouble when it comes to sleeping.