Got here and it is so nice too.

We have, after a bit of traveling, arrived to see grandchildren and as is evident from the photo below we were warmly and enthusiastically greeted.  Lydia after being dismissed from class across the way, ran to see her Grandmama. sweeping right past John Paul.  

(Also finally got good access to internet for a brief while here.)  

Julianna was just a little bit older, and I enjoyed the interplay between older sister and youngest brother as they passed in the same "adult free" (mostly) zone for kids to move freely to get to parents around the pick up area — there are 2,000 or so kids to be let out.  Thankfully not all at once and there is a definite order to the dismissals.

Luke coming at you and John Paul going away can flat out ride a scooter.  Fast and somewhat without regard for whomever may be on the sidewalk.  Could in the future probably serve them well if they rode motor cycles in Hanoi.

Julianna and friend walking home from school,

At the end of the block is Laura and Matt's apartment complex of a bunch of buildings.  Some only 9 stories tall, some 17, and some 25.  These in the foreground are about 27 to 35 which seems to be about the norm for this area.  Yes it looks like canyons to me.  I do not know what it looks like to them, home I reckon.

Patt has some eager learners for a new craft — knitting.  Of course they are trying to switch hands as neither is lefty so it has some translating to do and Patt tries to knit righty so it is knitted brow time too.

Very eager students too.  They get a lot of attention and we are glad to share it too.

I went with the boys to their school with Isaac and such fun to watch the dynamics as they begin the day so differently.  John Paul is READY to be there, Luke, not so much.  Both boys have on Wake Forest shirts if you will note.  They saw what I was wearing and would have on nothing else.  Like I said earlier.  We are well greeted and received.

And Lydia and I went to Ikea and a "date"  and actually got out of the store!  We did go down and up staircase to accomplish the exit — being foreigners has its advantage from time to time and that was one of them.  (Going on dates with the kids is one of my favorite times here.  We do lunch and a walk around someplace)(sometimes it involves transportation, sometimes not- this time not as Ikea is walking distance away — if you are not afraid of a walk)