As you see, there is no question mark at the end of this title. That means that unless Julia's visa approval comes through early tomorrow morning, we will be spending Christmas in Vietnam. We are bummed, but now just hope that it comes through soon so that we can still go home together. Right now the plan is that Doug and the older kids will go home sometime the end of next week regardless of Julia's visa to get Thomas back in school. If Julia's visa approval doesn't come through in time to go home with the others, she and I will continue to hang out here until it does. By that time some other families (who are adopting through our agency) will be here awaiting their visas, so I won't be alone. But it would be nice for our family to go home together.
That is pretty much the news of the day. We visited yet another temple today. They all have their different stories, but are no longer looking significantly different in our eyes. We are starting to scrape the bottom of the Hanoi barrel for stuff to do and are considering going somewhere else for a couple of days. The difficultly with that is that Julia doesn't do so well with that kind of stuff and at this point we want to minimize her difficulties.
Tried a new cafe tonight. Probably won't be back - it was expensive (by Vietnamese standards) for the type of food that we got. They did have kangaroo on the menu though. (There are lots of Australian tourists in Vietnam.) None of us tried it.
That's it for today. Thanks for checking in.
Barbie
P.S. For you Vikings fans out there, they have won every game since we left. Apparently us being out of the country is the key to their success. If the visa takes much longer, they might actually win the SuperBowl. (Hopefully we won't need to test this theory much longer...)
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There hasn't been nearly enough Hasselfeldt representation in the comments section lately, so I better comment so you know we haven't forgotten about you! Your family is of course in our thoughts and prayers and we hope that you get the news soon so you can come back to a freezing cold Minnesota! And I'm not a Vikings fan, so if they don't win the Super Bowl, it won't bother me a bit!
Doug and Barbie,
I suppose you can look at things this way....at least you aren't the only ones waiting on something important. I'm starting to really feel for Dave and his toaster oven saga.
Chins up! We love you guys!
Cindy
I'm not a Vikings fan.
I'd kind of like to see the vikings in the super bowl...but I'm not sure if I'd want them or the colts to win.
I do, after all, live in southeastern Illinois. BobIon was probably none too happy with you guys being in vietnam last night, and causing the vikes to beat his bears.
Not that any of this really matters, until I get my new toaster oven. That $63 option is looking better and better.
Owen's birthday is today! I think I'm gonna grill. Donnie, Denise, Bennie & Veralee and their kids are all coming...we'll be nearly as cramped in our house as you guys in your hotel...but admittedly, for a much shorter time...and with much more ready access to mcDonald's...(but not to $30 toaster ovens.)
Patterson--I used you when I was paying doug's bills. Hope you didn't mind.
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