A Little Bump in the Road

Friday, we were supposed to pick up Maya's Vietnamese and Canadian passports. However, only the Vietnamese passport was ready. The Canadian consulate is optimistic that Maya's passport will be ready Monday - sure hope so as we are scheduled to fly out Tuesday morning!

Here is a photo of me and Maya at the Vietnamese passport office. We need the Vietnamese passport to leave the country and the Canadian passport to re-enter Canada.

After the passport office, we went to the tailors to pick up my au dai. Off the rack silk au dais were about $25 US while made to measure were $30-50 US depending on the fabric and tailor. I also bought au dais for Aidan and Maya in a few different sizes ($7-10 US).

Friday afternoon, we went to the War Remnants Museum, which I recommend -very disturbing and moving images of the atrocities of Vietnam war. It puts a human face on war like no other war museum I have visited.

After the museum, we went for an early dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant called Ngon. It was really lovely - with high ceilings, a courtyard, and an open kitchen around the perimeter of the restaurant. My favourite dish there was the coconut ice cream served in a coconut - yum!