Straight across from our hotel room was an island called vin pearl island. It is a theme park and water park all in one. To get there you take a cable car across from the mainland. The cable car has amazing views. Once you arrive you can go on as many rides as you want your entry fee covers the cable car, and everything on the island. We spent a few hours on rides, then headed over to the pools. They have a lot of water slides, some of which are way too scary for me! We played in the water for a while, Shaun had the camera in his pocket when we went into the wave pool. Then we got out and went to one of the slides, Shaun was going to wait at the bottom and take a photo of me. When I got off the slide he said "don't panic but I don't have the camera". It had fallen out of his pocket in the wave pool. We started to walk back towards the pool when a lovely Australian woman came up to us and said "is this your camera? A little kid found it, I looked in the photos and recognised you." We were so stoked to have it back!
We then went and had some lunch and watched the clouds roll in.. It started to pour. We wandered back to the arcade games, had another go on the dodgems, got soaked wandering round and decided that maybe it was time to head back to the hotel.
We headed out for dinner that night to a restaurant called Lanterns, it had been recommended to us by someone we met earlier. The restaurant was packed, easily the busiest place we've eaten since we've been away. But the food was amazing. They had an ad on the table for cooking classes, so we decided to do that the next day.
9am the next morning we were back at Lanterns for our cooking class. First thing we did was take a cyclo to the markets to buy some of the ingredients we would be using. We started with fruit and vegetables and wandered through to the herbs and spices and all othe other things we would be needing. The last bit we went through was the meat section. It's not for the faint hearted. There were three Aussies with us, one was vegetarian and the other two quite squeamish. They didn't appreciate the frogs being picked up and whacked against the concrete step. After the market visit it was back to the resturant to begin cooking. We made fresh spring rolls, caramelised onion and your choice of pork, chicken or fish in a hot pot and flambé fruit for desert. We both really enjoyed the class, Nam our teacher was lovely and explained anything we wanted to know about.
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