Sleeping Beauty....

This morning we are getting ready to get a required physical exam for Jasmine's immigrant visa. Here she is getting her beauty sleep so she will look and feel her best:)

made it to Hanoi....

This morning, we got up at 5Am, had a quick breakfast in the room, and got on the plane to Hanoi. It is much cooler here, around 80 degrees, and of course still raining for the most part. We did quite a bit of shopping for "souveniers", and will have to buy another cheapo suitcase tomorrow just to get it all home. I wanted to give Jasmine a little gift every year for her "adoption day"... November 18th, until she is 18 years old, plus we got some really nice hand embroidered tablecloths, Vietnamese coffee and tea, lacquered photo albums and so many other things. The Vietnamese are known for their lacquer paintings and other items. Then we were directed to a Western Vietnamese restaurant... which was, well, rather upscale. I was worried about the nice wine glasses, etc, but we did really well. The photo is of Jasmine outside of the restaurant. I tried to take a photo of her next to an altar in the hotel, but she was too afraid of it.

If anyone is waiting for an email from me, I cannot get the emails in the outbox to go out:(

Tomorrow we get her physical exam and submit all paperwork for the Visa, and hopefully we will have the Visa by Wednesday... then we can leave on Thursday, which means that we will probably get home on Thanksgiving day. Oh goody, airport on Thanksgiving Day.... I am so looking forward to that:)