A Little Update

Barbie doesn't have a lot of time or opportunity to blog, but we talk to her every day, so I thought that I would give an update.

A couple of the other families joined her at the Anise Hotel on Saturday in Vietnam. Barbie is really glad for this. Now people are closer and she can have some breakfast company.

Saturday night Julia didn't sleep very well. Barbie thinks that she is cutting her lower eye teeth now. The past several weeks have brought many teeth issues for the Atkins family. One of the other families located a church that supposedly has an English-speaking service at 10:30 on Sunday morning. Barbie and a couple of others were going to try and visit. I'll let you know if they found it.

But...to let you know how bad things have become over there...Barbie agreed to go along on an outing to the Snake Village near Hanoi. At the beginning of the trip, there is no way that Barbie would have agreed to do this, but I suppose she thinks that it is better than nothing! I think that all the families from our agency are going there on Monday. I would give odds of 100,000 to 1 that Barbie does not drink the cobra blood. I think it is probably 25,000 to 1 that she doesn't eat the snake meat. They leave at 8 AM on Monday morning, so I'll have to call them early to see how things went on Sunday.

Today Thomas, Helen, mom, and I went to church. It was nice seeing some friends that we haven't seen for awhile, but I felt badly that Barbie and Julia weren't there with us. Everyone seemed to think I had lost weight, which isn't the case. We figured out that probably everyone else in America had gained weight while we were gone (Thanksgiving and Christmas), so by comparison, I looked smaller.

I'll see if Barbie has anything to add about her Sunday after I talk with her this evening (her Monday morning).

Thanks for reading.

Doug (for Barbie)