Last of the Vietnam Vlogs!

Hello fellow interweb friends!

First off, I'd like to thank you guys for being so patient with me. Anyways, so I finally got the time to edit and upload all of my vlogs from the rest of my trip! Here they are and I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have!

Last Days in Nha Trang (1)

Last Days in Nha Trang (2)

Aquarium Adventures in Nha Trang

Saigon Adventures (1)

Saigon Adventures (2)

Saigon Adventures (3)

Last Hours in Vietnam

So that pretty much wrapped up the trip,

and I will post up a beauty-related video soon!

Enjoy the video guys!

Until next time,

Uyen

Vietnam Weekend 3: Part 1

Hello fellow interweb friends!

I cannot believe I've already been here for 3 weeks! This means I will be leaving in about 10 days!!! Even though I am looking forward to go home to my friends and family in the states, I will definitely miss my family in Vietnam very much. The leaving part is always so hard just because we've gotten so close and spent so much time with each other. My cousins and I may have not seen each other in four years, but it felt like no time's passed and we still have so much fun with each other, even though they all have their own families and babies to take care of. This weekend was definitely one for the books! We spent an entire day hot-spring and mud bathing and then another day going into the mountains to go river rafting and then playing with a nature-made slip-and-slide. The past two days were filled with so many good memories, so much laughter, and ton of love.

Here are just a few pictures from Saturday at the I-Resort Hot Springs and Mud Bath! 

I apologize for my flabbiness!

Keep an eye out for the next blog,

More pictures to come soon!

Uyen

Vietnam Vlogs!

Hello fellow interweb friends!

If you haven't gotten a chance to see the new vlogs, here they are!

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

And I am working on uploading Day 9 right now!

Thanks for your patience guys!

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: I-Resort

Hello fellow interweb friends!

Last weekend, my cousins took my brother and I to a neat little bathing place called I-Resort. It has mud baths and hot spring bathes and waterfall massages and all kinds of goody-goody gumdrops provided by nature! We, sadly, did not do the mud bath, but we had so much fun in the hot springs and waterfall things! It was so nice and relaxing there that my cousins and I didn't want to leave! We were chillin in the hot pool, and at some point, I think I may have taken a little cat nap...hahaha, but anyways, here are a few pictures from that day! My entire family will be going there again this weekend, which means I get to show you more stuff next time!

Chillin'

The "waiting" area.

View from my little sun bed that had an amazing cushion.

O, just the girls!

Don't mind the bad angle!

My cousin and I got kind of hungry...

They told me to fertilize the plants!

Just relaxing, waiting for the guys to get the bikes ready.

I swear, I didn't pee in my pants guys! Hahaha!

I cannot wait to go back this weekend! I will hopefully, be able to post the vlog from this day up today, so you guys can see the live version of the I-Resort and the weird things that I did. 

That's all for now,

See you soon,

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Catch Up #2

Hello fellow interweb friends!

Sorry I've lagged the last couple of days! The internet has been down at home, and I didn't feel like lugging my laptop around to the various coffee shops around here to post, but it's all good in the hood now! We found a way to use the neighbor's wifi, which is much faster than the one at home, which means I cannot be lagging anymore! Hahaha, unfortunately, I will only be in Nha Trang for about another week, and in Vietnam for a little over 10 days! Wowzers, cannot believe a month is about to go by so fast! But here are some pictures! My family got the hooker-uppers to stay at the Louisiane Brewhouse and got to enjoy the bestest view in the world, hope you guys enjoy!

(NO CAPTION NEEDED!)

Us girls can hang!

She's my cousin-in-law, but it doesn't feel that way at all! I'm closer to her than her husband who's my actual cousin...hahaha

This little man is the cutest runner in the world!

This is during the day time!

Hahaha double fisting everywhere I go! Even my cousins think I'm quite the drinker!

You know what happens after I get a few drinks in me?!?!?

Here is the majority of the family!

So here are only a few pictures from that day! We went back there again for drinks the night of the 4th, which I will share with you at another time! This weekend is going to be super fun because we are going to go hot spring bathing/mud bathing again! I think I will post up some pictures from the first time we went in the next blog, so keep an eye out for that! Gosh guys, I am having way too much fun, so it's kind of bittersweet to think I will be going home soon!

That's all for now,

Gotta go eat!

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland Catch Up Time

Hello fellow interweb friends!

So it's been a crazy week and I haven't really gotten a chance to write much on here, but I think pictures do worth more than words. I personally think I cannot describe how truly beautiful it is here right now, so I think I shall share some more pictures with you guys! I am sharing with you these pictures in its raw, unedited/filtered form just because it is just  beautiful the way it is!

All these pictures will were taken at the top story of the Sheraton Hotel here. We went for happy hour and I got to enjoy 2 delicious mango daquiris!!! Hahaha and it was super cheap cause their happy hour promo is buy one get one free! Speaking of which, my entire family will be going out there again in a little bit and enjoy ourselves a few dranky-dranks hahaha some goody-goody gumdrops, if ya'll know what I mean?!?!

And here's the most up-to-date vlog! I am uploading another one as I publish this blog, so I hope it will be up by tonight so you guys can see the vlog that was taken the same day as these pictures!

Off I go now,

Talk to you soon,

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Day 7

Hello fellow interweb friends!

I can't believe it's been a week since I've been gone! Time is surprisingly going by so fast, which is kind of bittersweet for me. Every time we go to Vietnam, it always happens like this. Just as my family start to get use to everything and begin to enjoy ourselves, it's just right around the time when we have to pack up and go home, so sad! 

The best part of the trip so far is all the beach trips and scenery. It is amazingly green and beautiful here. Here are some pictures, no filter, just natural sunlight to show you guys!

Such cute creatures!

My dad used to work on these railroad tracks, which makes this like a trip down memory lane for him.

This is part of a rice patty field. I can't get over how green it is.

These are banana trees! The bananas here may look green and raw, but it is so sweet!

The mountains here just blend in with the fields so nicely, which makes the mountains look much less scary.

This is like a little bamboo village. I wish we had these little things at home!

So gosh darn pretty and quaint and cute with these little shacks!

Hope you guys are enjoying these as much as I am,

I'll see you soon!

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Day 5/6

Hello fellow interweb friends!

Hey guys! So if you've been watching my vlogs, you'll know I didn't do much on Day 5. It was a whole lot of family stuff and I wanted to be respectful and keep things slightly private, so I didn't vlog. But like any other day, I started out at the beach, then the family made a 7490581423 course meal, and I ate my little heart out! Hahaha, honestly, my aunt really knows how to feed people! And then at night, we took a little stroll on the beach, checked out the night time scenery, and that was it! I did a small clippit of it on my Instagram, so if you want, you can check out my Instagram...and possibly follow for more goody goody gumdrops!

O and another thing that happened, I have been struggling for almost 24 hours now trying to export/upload part 2 to day 4's vlog! It kept on telling me there was some kind of error and that the video is already open for writing...some techy terms that I have no idea what, so now, I'm trying to export it in Quicktime...which apparently, takes double the time...so hopefully, that will fix it and let me upload to Youtube within the next 12 hours? Hahaha man, such a struggle being a vlogger! I definitely have so much more admiration and respect for all professional vloggers and Youtubers, especially if you guys edit and do all kinds of fancy things with your videos. So if you have any pointers for me about this, please help a girl out?!?! Hahaha, and since there's no pictures, I thought I'd link my previous video in this one so you guys can enjoy it!

These are my baby cousins! They are so funny and cute!

As for day 6, we started out at the beach! And then my cousin made beef soup that was almost as delicious as my mom's, totally forgot to take pictures of that to share with you cause I'm such a newbie at all this blogging/vlogging business hahaha! 

And, to end the day, we went to a village-themed restaurant for dinner! That will be in tomorrow's vlog (hopefully, if I don't experience any technical difficulties)...Anyways, another real excited (but sad and scary) thing happened. On our way home, my aunt got swiped by some guy on the road, so she and her bike fell over like a mini car accident and ya, my brother, on the bike next to her with my uncle made a huge jump to avoid the bike. Thank goodness he did, or else he would have been burnt by the exhaust pipe, which would have ruined the trip tremendously!

Alrighty,

Well the vlog will hopefully be up in the morning...

So sorry guys,

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Day 4

Hello fellow interweb friends!

This first week is going by really fast, and I feel like the days will only go by faster and faster as this month goes on, which makes me feel a bit bittersweet just because that means my vacation is coming to an end, but I also get to go home to my friends and family back in the states...man, such complicated feelings! Anyways, I am so flippen sore from all the swimming and tanning today! I did not know tanning takes up so much energy guys! But then again, it might just be the salt water dehydrating me...hahaha whoops.

Ok, so this is going to sound ridiculously stupid, but I think my mouth hurts from eating too much pineapple! So today, after lunch, my cousin cut up some pineapple for us to eat as dessert cause I asked her to just feed me with loads of fruits and good sweets. I may have accidentally ate a little too much and now I honestly cannot feel my mouth! I soaked it in water and milk and tea, anything that is liquidy and cold, I soaked my tongue in, but still it hurts! Anyways, now I've kind of learned my lesson when it comes to pineapple!

 

Ok, so before I end this blog, I thought I'd share with you this delicious Australian milk. I used to love this as a child, but when my family left for the US, I had to stop drinking this cause we don't have this in the States. Anyways, this is the only kind of whole milk that I will voluntarily drink. It is not too thick like our American whole milk; it's like a creamier version of the skim milk. I just love this so much, like I can drink cartons of this a day and each box is about one liter.

Gotta go check on yesterday's vlog now,

Until next time,

With love,

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Day 3

Hello fellow interweb friends!

DAY 2 VIDEO WILL BE UP SOON GUYS! I'm just exporting it right now and will be uploading within today! I'm still new at posting videos and stuff, so some of my vlogs may be a day or so late, but no worries, I will definitely try to share as much of my adventure with you guys as possible! But here's a little tid bit for you to enjoy!

Hola from the 'Nam Land! Holy moly, this is the mothership of all delicious delicacies! This morning alone, I've had 2 coconuts, loads of fresh fruits, and as ridiculous as it sounds, some steamed bun and banh mi (which is like a Vietnamese sandwich, similar to the Lee's but better). I honestly think I am in food heaven because everyone is buying me food left and right and I'm being spoiled like no other just because my family hasn't seen me in about 4 years. I will have to show you the fruits that I've been scarfing down like there's no tomorrow soon! I am such a newbie at blogging haha I don't realize I need to take a picture to share with you guys until I've pretty much eaten all the foods! Thank goodness, I caught one of the delicious dishes on video today while my cousin was cooking it before it went down my tummy!

I am so in love with the fresh coconut juice here! Like my aunt brings back 10 coconuts a day and I down at least 2 after every meal, so pretty much, I drink up to like 5 of them a day. Like it tastes so refreshing and amazing and nothing like those nasty coconut water/juice thing we have at home in the cartons!

O and, another thing, the money here is crazy big! Hahaha, so the conversion rate between American money and Vietnamese money is for every American dollar, it is $20K in Viet money. So pretty much, I am a flippen bajillionaire here! Hahahaha, but in reality, that's barely anything since everything here costs in the thousands. But in general, I can live for about a week here with $10 USD, which is pretty neat! I definitely feel like a baller while I'm here hahaha, especially since my cousins won't let me pay for anything, so I just have these huge bills in my wallet for like ever!

Off to the beach I go now,

Adios muchachos!

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Day 2

Hello fellow interweb friends!

Like I mentioned in my previous post, after a long plane ride, I also had to take a train ride home, and that ride was about another 10 hours since the train was delayed. Anyways, instead of literally typing out everything that went on in the plane, I thought I'd share this little clip with you with a special announcement, hopefully, you'll be able to figure out what the announcement is!

 

So on a completely random note, when I watched this video back, I felt like I was in Harry Potter when they were on the train heading to Hogwarts! Like I said in the video, I have not been on a train since 1997, so I was pretty darn excited about it and cannot wait for the next train ride back into Saigon - the only sad thing about that is it means I will be heading home, which will also mean my vacation will come to an end. 

I apologize for the horrible quality! I have no idea on how to use iMovie or any kind of video editing programs, so my videos will be as raw as they're gonna get! Hopefully, I will figure out how to combine clips together to make a full-length video instead of posting up multiple 2 minute clips. I just think that will be less exciting than if you just get to experience everything all at once!

Anyways! So did anyone catch the special announcement?!?! Hahaha, well on top of my blogging, I thought I'd also VLOG my trip too cause sometimes, the videos do a better job at capturing everything and you'll be able to see a semi-live version of what I'm doing while I'm here! Of course, I will still blog about the things I can't capture on video. 

But anyways, thank you so much for putting up with my horrible quality videos! I will try my hardest to figure out how to record better ones, but for now, you will get to see everything in its rawest form!

That's all for now,

With love,

Uyen

Vietnam Motherland: Day 1

Hello fellow interweb friends!

First off, I'd like to apologize for being such a sucky blogger lately, no excuses whatsoever, but now, I'm going to be a lot better at it! So if you're my friends, then you already know that I'm currently in Vietnam, and for those who know me through my blog, well, my family and I are vacationing in Vietnam right now to visit our family there! I will be there for about 4 weeks, which means, I will be posting loads and loads of beautiful/wonderful things that I experience during my trip here! I will be living in Nha Trang, which is a beautiful beach city along the coast of lower southern Vietnam and will end my trip in Saigon. 

Let's just start by telling you that the flight from LAX to Taipei was about 13.5 hours and then we had a 3 hour layover in Taipei. Then, the flight from Taipei to Saigon is about 3 hours. After we land in Saigon, we waited for about another 4 hours until we take a train to Nha Trang, which is going to be about 8 hours. So pretty much, I will be spending over 24 hours on some sort of transportation system, which is ridiculous, but to think, I will be vacationing with my family for an entire month definitely makes it not so bad!

Of course, I won't end this first Vietnam blog with just a bunch of hours and times I spend on planes, trains, and what not! So we must do a little airport outfit of the day/traveling attire! Since I knew my flight will be so flippen long and there's more sitting to do after, I decided to rock these floral leggings I got from Urban Outfitters a few weeks ago for only $5!!! And then, the top I wore is super flowy just to keep everything flowing and comfy. Let me tell you, everyone around me on the plane was complaining about how uncomfy they were, and I just sat back, relaxed, and watch all sorts of movies! And of course, being the typical southern California girl that I am, I rocked my Rainbows with everything I wore! Now, I know I probably should have worn some kind of tennis shoes or whatever, but that's fine, I was just sitting for hours on end, so flip flops are perfect! So pretty much, the moral of the story is to be super comfy but still looking good when you go on the plane!

And here, my brother and I were waiting to get our luggage, and let me tell you, that was a feat in itself because there was like a bajillion different kinds of boxes and other shenanigans! Thank goodness for my comfy clothes, or else getting the luggage would have been miserable too since I had to run around the conveyor belt thing to find our stuff!

That's all for now, 

With love,

Uyen