I'm awake aroound 6am. I grab shorts, Tshirt and go down to the pool for the free 7am TaiChi class at 7am. I'm the only one there. A private class, it's easy. We go through her routine tiwce then I do set one of mine. I'm sweating. Back to shower and off to breakfst at he lovely buffet over the lots pond in the Slope Restaurant, where do they get these names?? I'll join Anh again tomorrow. Maybe Ted should come, it's easy.
After breakfast we cai a lovely spont under a palapa in the shade for the whole day. AT 10:30 I go down to the spa. We have a free leg/foot massage and Im thre to claim mine. Ted's not interesed but it seems I can't have his. Bummer.
Hien is lovely, I enjoy giving my feet and lower legs a treat and I'm practically the only person there. I return to the pool where Ted has joined me. In and out of the water is the only way to combat this heat - humid and 36 today - and few people at the pool. They are all off on tours to Hue, but we've done all that.
I order the most expensive cocont I've had this trip but it's good, cool refreshing full of coconut water and eat the delicious moist young coconut fruit inside. I have a banana from breakfast and that's all I want except lots of cold water. I freeze my mylar bottles and have ice water as they defrost, love it. I carry one in my purse all the time. I'm sure people think I'm tipplng gin...sometimes I use it to moisten my headscarf and put it on my neck, head, etc. too.
At 2pm when I can't stand any more pool heat I go for a full body Vietnamese massage. Everything in the spa is totally lovely, the environment, the rooms, cold ginger tea to greet you and send you off, and lovely staff. HIen leads me through the entrance, the steam bath area, the rest area, the meditation room, the fitnss facilty, to an AC room where I submit my body to anything she ants to do to it. I emerge an hour later light as a butterfly. Without language skills, Hien has fully understood my lymphedema problem and massaged it as well as any lymphedema specialist who has put hr hands on me so far in Canada. I want to take her home...
Everywhere here the sidewalks, roads, etc. are uneven and I have been tripping all over. But tonight in our room, I catch my left big townail on the coffee table of all places - and rip if practically off! Painful! I raid the first aid box and we don't have enough to minister to ths poor toe the rest of the trip, so Ted is off out to find more supplies, including beer! it's going to be a problem especially at pools!
Our second evening here, we go easy on ordering food, it's still too much, but our waitress remembers the wine we drank last night and that I can't eat hot or chili, love it. By 8:30 we are strolling home along the romantically lit pathways to our cool room and again pass out at 9pm.
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