The weekend...

The trip to HaLong Bay began at half 8 Saturday morning, an early start for all but by now we are all used to early mornings. The journey to HaLong was around 3 hours long, fortunately the bus we were in was nicely air conditioned which kept us all cool!





Our tour guide, Tony or some Vietnamese name none of us could pronounce and whom we also really like, talked a bit and then sang us a traditional Vietnamese song. That is what the bus trip to Ha Long mainly consisted of, it was quite uneventful, except for when we stopped of at a rest stop along the road, where we were brought to a handmade crafts store.





When we arrived at the dock, we got on our boat which was a junk boat, thats its name! The boat was nice, bedrooms and all although some had no air conditioning, hate that!! The first day on the boat we ate nice food, went kayaking for a bit to Monkey Island and later in the evening went swimming which most of us had been looking forward to for quite a while.





This morning we got up and went swimming again, then after a quick lunch and we were off the boat and on our way back to the hotel.





All ready to go for another tough weeks work!!!








Rob T.

Weekend Off Pics in Ha Long Bay...

This was pure class & a must do activity...

Working Pics...

Brendas Holidays!!!!

Hi all,

Well we have just had our first little holiday, we went to Ha Long Bay and stayed on a boat for the night. You have never seen anything like the boat traffic jam, if a boat wanted to pull in a spot, well they just push their way in, unreal.

Everybody went swimming from the boat, most were brave enough to jump from the boat, water was like soup, everybody had a blast.

The food was great, all fish, vegables rice, finished with fruit, we will be all so healthy. We drove back from Ha Long Bay today, Sunday, and are now back in the hotel, refreshed and ready for work tomorrow, it was just what the doctor ordered.

regards,

Brenda.

Boaty Trip...

HEYYY!

So last night we stayed on this WHOPPER boat like, it was like something out of pirates of the caribbean! we went on kayaks (which really hurt your arms!), and we were able to jump off the boat from the top deck too!! it was so cool, but then we thought we say jellyfish in the water so we got out fairly quick!

We had a deadly tour guide, tony, he sounded like the king lemur from madagascar!! It was really deadly, we decided to stay on the deck of the boat last night, but the only thing was that it started to rain, so it was short lived!!!

Anyway, whopper night!!

Becki!!

Hi There...

Every thing is going great over here. We spent the week sanding, sealing and painting the kids room. The bulk off the work is done now!

The local kids are obsessed with us.The come into the orphanage everyday to watch us work. We play soccer with them at the end of the day and then they follow us halfway home!! There so cute!

We stayed in last night and played pictionary (which Mattew organised for us). It was great fun and going on a boat trip tomorrow.

Missing everyone loads,

Anna-Louise

Insights from Dave!!!

Last nite we stayed over on a boat. Today after we had breakfast we all went swimming (except brenda and beckie). Then we got off the boat and snaked off to the hotel in a minibus.. The drive was uncomfortable not only because the road was bumpy but there was a bit of a concert goin on... Before we reached the hotel we stopped in a factory for disabled workers where Matthew and i bought some old school emperor pyjamas...