Day 2 -- Water Park, Mega Mall, and Korean BBQ

Our kids were pretty committed to showing their cousins a good time in Vietnam, and to them that meant fewer museums and more Vincom Mega Mall and the water park.  They even formed a committee called the "water park committee" and put on a full court press lobbying effort that any Washington DC insider would be proud of.  Like all good American parents, we caved eventually.  Our plan originally was to hit some outdoor museum/temple exhibits in the morning and go to the water park in the afternoon.  However, the heavy rains hit in the morning just as we were leaving the apartment, so we went to the waterpark instead.  Kids 1, parents, 0.

As a country, Vietnam does not celebrate Thanksgiving, so we were amused to see they were having Black Friday sales at the mall.  I don't think anyone was camping out for deeply discounted TVs or video game systems.

The water park was not crowded at all -- which is what we found the last time we were there.  It was as if the Vincom people built a water park just for the Frato-Sweeneys to use with their relatives:

After lunch we turned the kids loose in the mall for some lunch while the grown ups had some traditional Vietnamese food at Quan An Ngon, followed by a crowded bus back to Cau Giay.

That night we put on our rain ponchos and walked down the street to an amazing Korean BBQ place.  We got the beef and the pork and chowed down on the grilled meats and the Korean vegetables.