Binh Chau

Today we took a car ride to resort with some hot springs.  We thought it was only going to be about 2 hours but we miscalculated and it was a 3 1/2 hour car trip.  Luckily we have wonderful children in the car and they watched movies and played gameboy.  The only problem was when Eric told us there was a problem with his body.  We asked him what it was and he said he had an accident.  We didn't believe him because he doesn't have those but sure enough he had and didn't think to tell us.  We arrived at the resort and went into our "cabin".

 It had six beds for us and a few little geckos too.  

We aren't too adventurous for those and tried to tell dad to get them out and he did the best he couldbut they would come back in.  We got on our swimsuits and went swimming in the hot spring.  They were very warm and it was a warm day so it didn't quite seem refreshing.

 

After we were done swimming we walked around to see what else was at the resort.  We found the foot bath pools that were burning hot and Eric said he wasn't going to do that.  He explored with mom and Meagan.

 We came across the place where the pools were really hot and you could buy 10 eggs for 40,000 dong (about $2.50) and put them in one of the pools and they would boil the eggs.  We found a cute egg and lowered our basket in and walked around some more.

 The hot springs were so hot you could feel heat just walking by them.  The kids all wanted to take pictures.  Eric is still learning to get everyone in the picture and Emma is getting better.

 We went back to check on our eggs and the guide told us a few more minutes.  Our silly kids wanted us to make movies of them doing things. We will spare you the silliness and not put one of them on here. We wanted to find the crocodiles and feed them but that part was closed.  We did find a little park that Eric and Emma loved playing in and we found the animal of the year we were born in too.

Later we had dinner and since we were at a resort we thought it would be fun to order some "fancy" drinks.  The kids all loved them.

 When we were walking back to our "cabin"  we got to see a beautiful night sky with lots and lots of stars.  We realized that living in Shanghai we don't see those very often and just enjoyed looking up at them.  We all tried to sleep well and hope the geckos don't like to crawl on people.  (In the morning we seemed to still be just fine.)