It's Sunday Morning in Vietnam

It's a beautiful morning. Hot, humid...but beautiful. The only thing I can think of that would make it better is if I could hold and kiss my sweet Ian. But soon...soon.

Did Imention it's HOT. I think it must be about 100 degrees, with 5,000 percent humidity. The evenings are nice though....still humid, but a little cooler. The past two evenings we've had rain.

We've had an interesting couple of days. Drew is fantastic. Coming out of his little shell more and more. He keeps us laughing...and running. I've decided that all of the trash cans in our house now have to change to ones with lids, probably locking lids, on them. No matter where we put them in the hotel room, he finds them. He's quite curious about everything and tries to do anything we're doing.

Yesterday we went to the Market. WOW. Let me say that again...WOW. Talk about sensory overload. Not so much for Drew, but for me. I've never seen anything quite like it. I might have done better if I hadn't had Drew with me. But, we (Drew and I) lasted about half an hour and then took a taxi back to the hotel. Charlie stayed behind and shopped. Drew and I had some great fun in the room. Giggling and playing....and then finally trying to take a nap. Afternoon naps are not our friends. He just doesn't like them. He cries and cries and cries but he's so tired and wipes his little eyes. So, I know he needs a nap. Finally after about an hour he was out. Charlie showed me all of the cool stuff he purchased.

Then, I went shopping. Found some lovely little shops on the streets. Some with beautiful hand embroidered stuff. I found a great store of Ao Dai's and I'm having one made for me. I can pick it up tomorrow morning. Did a little more shopping and then headed back to the room.

Drew was still asleep. When we woke up, we changed and then headed out for dinner. We were going to try to find the Wild Horse something or other place...but we never did. We found a bookstore with some great children's books. Then we found KFC...so we had dinner. Drew ate almost all of my mashed potatoes. This boy LOVES to eat.

I think this is the trip of the Nadra mis-haps. Day one...fell getting out of the shower. Last night...fell again in the bookstore. Imagine this big American woman lying in the small isle of a bookstore. I had so hoped no one saw me...but no....this sweet little Vietnamese young lady ran to my rescue. I'm fine...bruises on my behind (from the shower fall) and on my lower left leg...but fine. I'm sitting here laughing as I'm typing this...clumsy should have been my middle name.

All in all, this has been a great trip. We're going to try to do a little more sight seeing today....I promise...I'll be careful. Then, we're having dinner with the Dillon staff tonight.

It's been a long journey to get here and God has blessed us more than we ever deserve. It's Sunday morning here and I feel like I should be in church. I'd love to be listening to Bobby H. singing and Deron preaching right now.

We leave for Hanoi tomorrow. We have one official thing to do there and then we're done. Woo, hoo!!!!

Ian....mommy, daddy and baby Drew are coming home soon. We miss you so much. You are going to have so much fun playing with your baby brother. We can't wait to see you. Hugs and big kisses from mommy and daddy!!!