Our New Home

On Monday Oct 20th, we moved into our new home. We will be here for at least one year. It has three bedrooms and three bathrooms and is furnished. We feel very blessed. We are on the 10th floor of a 17th story building. The 17th floor has a fitness room and a billard room. It also has a great breeze and view. I am trying to get along without using the air conditioner, too much. We have one in the master bedroom and one in the eating area. We also have fans in the office and kitchen. The evenings we usually have a great breeze but the days are hot and humid. Today it has rained all day. This is the first day of all rain since we arrived. It is great!

Our third day in the apt. we were treated to a Vietnamese lunch prepared by our friend and his girlfriend. They brought us a rice cooker and enough rice to last a very long time. They fixed the rice along with pork, fish with the heads still on, I still am not used to that, and then the veggies. They serve fruit and tea for dessert. They have been so helpful, taking us to look at places and then getting us settled. We are blessed.

I was on the computer the other day and I kept hearing this scratching at the front door. I opened it and in came the owner's dog. They have moved down to the 5th floor. I guess the dog knows how to get around and he just came back to his old home. We took him back and have not seen him since. He is one smart dog.

I went to the market next door last evening to get food for dinner. Most things also are in English but not all. I was trying to find chicken breasts, Mark only likes the white meat. I looked and looked but they way it was packaged I could not tell what I had, as I was purchasing it Mark noticed that the checker was snickering. He was trying to ask her what it was that we were buying. She did not speak English but I think it was the bag of french fries that we had found. Strange American's. Why would anyone want french fries when there was so much rice to be had.

We still have our American foods for breakfast and lunch and then for dinner we experiment. They always have rice or noodles and vegtables and meat is either pork or fish. Not to much chicken or beef. We have a restauant on the first floor of our building. We went there our second night and they offer all kinds of eel, frog, etc. not my favorites, then they also serve eel blood with wine, I passed on that one. I am getting good with the chop sticks. I can now pick up the peanuts that they serve as appetizers!!