Dinner at Amiego's

Yesterday we had some friends arrive from Thailand. Gary and Paual Hays and their friend Simon. We have been looking forward to their visit and since it was Pauls's birthday and last Friday was our 33rd wedding anniversary we decided to celebrate by going to a restaurant that we had found in District 1 called Amiego's. It is a very nice place and they serve a variety of good food. I had a nice Australian steak and Mark, Gary and Simon had a burrito, which Mark thought tasted more like an enchilda. Paula had a wonderful onion soup. Then we decided to splurge on dessert, Paul and I tried the apple pie, which was like an apple tart warmed with vanilla ice cream, my favorite and Mark had cheesecake and Gary some type of kiwi peach flan. Simon was too full from the hugh salad bar, rolls, and burrito dish to have dessert. After dinner the manager came by and we asked him to if he would mind taking our picture. Then he proceeded to get out his own camera and had his staff stand by us and he took another picture. So maybe if you come to Vietnam and we go to Amiego's we might have our picture on the wall or on the menu. You never know here !!

After dinner, we were full, so we decided to walk a few blocks to the statue of Ho Chi Minh, who has a child on his lap and he is reading to a her. The books all say he like to be called Uncle Ho and loved the children. Gary and Paula are involved with a children's ministry in Thailand called Kid's Quest. They have no children of their own but they have so much love for these little ones that they minister to. As we were doing the tourist thing two young, maybe five and seven year old girls came up to me and shook my hand and asked my name. Then I asked theirs and tried to pronounce it. Not very well I must say. We asked if we could take their picture and after that they wondered off to some more tourist. Never did see any parent or anyone with them. Children do seem to have a lot of freedom here to roam around. The mother in me wanted to say where are your parents !! I just prayed instead for their safety.