Our Museum Trip

On the 6th of March, Mum dragged the three of us kids to the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts Museum in District One, close to Reunification Palace. Outside the building were statues, which we looked at briefly, and a coffee shop, which Mum made a beeline for. She bought a coffee titled "thought", which was rather appropriate, as once it arrived it dripped at a snails pace into the cup, giving her reason to have second thoughts about buying it. After about 7 minutes, she lost patience and drank what little had dripped in. It was so good, however, that she regretted her hasty decision and tried to salvage what was left of it. Eventually, she gave up and we went into the main building. There were three levels, each one containing several rooms filled with sculptures, paintings, etc. It was extremely boring for me and the girls, but Mum was loving it. While we were walking around, Mum tasked us with choosing three pieces to take a picture of and comment on. I chose the following:

1: I bet this guy gets told a lot "your mind is an open book", 'cause that's sure what it looks like!

2: During the Vietnam war, soldiers would get extremely bored, resulting in occasional circus acts like this one. As they couldn't risk being seen on the height given by a full-size tightrope, they resorted to a bar held by four men, which meant they could fit two people at once on top.

 This is a view of some beach or other, but it's a bit hard to tell which one as the painter was in a plane doing a barrel roll at the time.