Sam dun water park!

In our attempt to beat the heat, Aspen and I decided to hit up the local water park in Ho Chi Minh. The only problem was when we woke up it was pouring today! Luckly it stopped later on in the morning giving us some time to relax and enjoy the cooler weather the rain brought.

Once it stopped though we heade out and grabbed a moto. A moto is a local who drives you on their scooter or motor bike. Remember how I said the cyclists were crazy? They have nothing on these guys. I thought more than once that we were going to crash into another scooter or get run over by a bus! It was a scenic drive though and showed us just how big this city is. It was like a twenty minute drive and these guys only charged us 35 000 dong! Dirt cheap.

It only cost us 100 000 to get into the park. I love the cost of living here! It turned out this water park had its own section of lockers and chairs for sun bathing for foreigners. We are so special. The waterslides were deffinetly crazy. They had one called the boomerang where three people sat on a tube and went down one side of a steep slide and slid up the oter side of another steep wall, so fun. This random asain boy, named Lee, offered to come with us. It was a nice gesture but when we got off the slide he went over to his friends and theh high fived him and were congratulating him. Maybe it was a dare but he was a nice kid anyways.

Out of the 500 asains at this water park I'm 95% sure we were the only white people. It truly made us famous amongst the locals. One group of kids came up to us and asked to have their picture taken with us because were so "beautiful". Good one. Another girl sat beside us with her friend and they were secretly taking pictures on their camera phone of us. Not so sneaky, I might add.

They had a zip line in the park where you dropped off into a pool. It slightly scared me cause people were doing flips and belly flops off it. Not too mention no girls were doing it but since aspen and I stood out enough already we thought why not. Well I had to go first and when I got up there people got off their chairs to come to the pool to watch the white kid do this. I grabbed the bar and swung down and people were yelling and cheering! People are crazy.

We finished the day with a bite to eat st the waterpark. 125 000 dong, 5 dollars, bought us each a plate of fried rice, a plate of fries, a beer and an iced coffee!
I love it here!