Barber from hell

Now that we're out of the heat (literally and figuratively) My blog posts are coming to a near-halt, but the inspiration lives on(at least as long as the photos do!)

THE CUT-THROAT BARBER

Not so long ago, in a place 1/4 of the way around the world,.....

My hair drooped low, badly in need of a hair-cut (if only for dad anyways). As luck had it, we go for a walk and what do we see? A hair-dresser who promises dad more hair than he began with(Can you believe it?). We agree to send dad trooping off to get a hair-cut (I felt so confident I booked me, and my 2 little brothers in at the same time!!)

It all started innocently enough.......yip...I can handle that..looking pretty smooth...

Dad asks for a for a shave and what a surprise he gets! (an ear clean, nothing abnormal there right?)

This man has got to be good ...he tells us HE HAS BEEN CUTTING Hair FOR 30 YEARS AND his dad has been a hairdresser for 30 years and possibly HIS dad has been a hairdresser for 30 years but the whole story got a bit lost in translation!!!

 Hold on...whats that???A blade? Ooops....con-cen-trate!!!Do NOT make anyone laugh.  One slip and it's all over

 Cripes I think nature has taken care of ALL the hair around there!!!Forehead shave...ummm...

 Holy mooly...I'm definitely NOT keen for the back shave..I'm pretty sure kids do NOT need a back shave!!!....Maybe Bruno...?

 Hold AB-SO-LUTELY still.  One slip and you will be only a memory!

 E gad,even the eyebrows require attention!!!

 A man who knows his job!

 And takes it seriously...VERY seriously!!

 Could you possibly know your eyeballs need renovation???ouuuu.....ew....

 And look....virtually no investment at all!!!Contact us for your nearest franchise!!!

An eye dropper?, hope it's clean! 

More like a surgeon's instrument table than a barber's!

cut-throat wanted!

Nothing too unusual about this hair-cut, is there?

They all come trooping back from the hair dresser with mum looking slightly paler than usual (hard to tell because she was mostly red from the heat!): Well you are DEFINITELY not getting rid of that sheep on your head there,there's bound to be more head lice than room 6,she says,maybe somewhere else!

Nha Trang to NZ

100 HBCB (hours before coming back)

The night after tour 2 we accidentaly broke a hotel footrest. Dad broke the footrest by putting one on a normal chair and sitting on it (the reason we wanted to do this is because you had to stand up to use the computers and when I do some of my long-winded post,s sitting down is quite necessary. The leg was buckled thanks to his gargantuan weight!. The manager tried to sue us 20 U.S dollars! when the seat's insides were: plastic wood and cardboard! Dad reckoned he would pay 5 U.S dollars at the most to get that foot-rest fixed. It was hardly our fault because sometimes they brought out a big stool that actually enabled me to sit down and blog to my heart's content but for some reason they decided not to have the stools out all the time and they wouldn't give them to you even when you asked.
In the end $10 bucks did it( "and don't come back")

The day after we took a night bus out of Nha Trang and into HCM city(Saigon) ,the big bad capital.

   

HCM city tour

The  day after we arrived on a sleeper bus we went on a 2-day, homestay tour down the mekong river. Our first stop was to try honey tea. Our tour guide said that honey tea made you live longer... or was that royal jelly? Apparently the Mekong is a prime place for bees, but because I don't like honey, I didn't like honey tea much. 

Next we got on to a tiny boat that was in risk of tipping over because of all the weight(Yip, that's you mum and dad). We took a trip through some giant overgrown palm fronds with the huge risk of rain ever-present with the dark skies overhead.

We had booked a homestay that was on the river (literally it was held up by Styrofoam blocks) and with it, lot's of mosquitoes. We woke up in the morning with no dengue or malaria so I was feeling was lucky. After a short boat ride (we had to do this on the way there as well) back to the rest of our tour we went to see "the floating market at 8. Here are some pictures,the things on the end of the pole show you what is being sold.

 Another day at the office!!!

All this waiting around is making me sleepy.

 How many bricks can YOU carry.

 Living life on the edge (of the river)

 BRICKED IN

Little girl asking if she can use the I-pad (the response: make one out of melons and see if you can scrounge a charger out of the water)

Oh yeah... I didn't order that did I?

The final city/countdown

We flew into Singapore the next day we only had 2 nights here before we had to go home, to NZ

We had a cheap hotel because it was in the RED zone of Singapore that meant there were a lot of seedy characters hanging around the street corners (I am trying to put this into non-offensive words). 

The second day there we went to an island called Sentosa where we went to Universal studios,which cost a lot of dough but when we got in we found it was worth it! We spent all day in Universal studios and had lot's of fun. The downside was that we qued for 2 hours for one ride! (they had a system: if you wanted to go as a group you had to take the long line BUT if you wanted to go by yourself with some other people you could in the super fast line OR you could pay a metric ton of money to upgrade your pass to a premium pass where you could go as a group really fast). We hadn't figured this out yet.!!!

At the end of the day, we had a great day at Universal Studios Singapore

 Creepy eh?!

Universal studios, we're far, far FAR away!

Home bound

2 days later we were at the airport with a  10 hour night plane to Auckland ahead of us. On the back of the seats in front of us had a screen with very little things you didn't have to pay(Of course mum was to stingy to buy the movie upgrade) for so I went to the free section and watched the very little shows that were available there was only a snow boarding/ surfing/ skateboarding show and a fishing show.

I wrote this page from home  (we took a 1 hour flight from Auckland to Napier) as soon as we got home because I have been unable to access any internet from Singapore on.

Please do not fret this is not my last post because I left out a huge section of my blog so that I could catch up with current affairs!

-a ground-struck child