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C seems to make friends everywhere. He loves the attention from the Vietnamese people. They call him "very handsome boy", and he just eats it up. It never fails, though, that once they find out his age, they change their description to "very BIG handsome boy"! This just makes him giggle. Before Vietnam, I have never had to answer the question, "is THAT very big handsome boy daddy?" as they point in B's general direction. Speaking of B, a cabbie asked him to write his height and weight down for him so that he could tell his friends how he got this large American into the itty-bitty clown car.
We went to the Museum of Ethnology today - loved it! I look like the tour guide in this pic, and you can't even see the sweat streaming down my face! K is quite comfy in the sling - and I guess at this temperature, she doesn't really add to the heat. We're all a big soggy mess all the time anyway!

C and S in a replica of one of the traditional VN houses. C really loves museums, although he'll never admit it. He has tons of fun learning about the "olden times", which is anything pre-2000 to him.

We went to Bobby Chin's tonight for dinner. It was wonderful - as all the food we've had here has been. C says he loves the food here, too...as he's slurping down spaghetti and meatballs. He has tried the local fare and has enjoyed most of it. He's a much more adventurous eater here than he ever is at home, where he thinks plain black pepper is way too spicy.

Tomorrow we have our visa appointment. Once that step is complete, we're free to leave VN with K. We'll also receive the paperwork that will make her a U.S. citizen as soon as she disembarks at LAX, which I think is a pretty cool thing.

I am ready to come home and get back to real life. I can't wait for K to meet everyone - she'll melt everyone's hearts for sure! As much as I've enjoyed it here, it's time to go...the pollution is killing me, and the street vendors' agression is starting to make me want to kick them. The heat is so overbearing that showering doesn't really seem to make a difference. I really don't like that part. I enjoy clean - clean is good.

C is missing his first week of school. Though I do not regret for one second the decision to bring him to VN with us, he needs to get back to meet his new teachers and classmates. T-ball season starts next week, too, and he may not forgive us if he misses much of that!