Sorry for the time lapse in between postings……. I rarely blog and when I want to I’m most likely in the midst of feeding or changing diapers on our recent adopted baby girl.

Last Saturday my wife and I had to clean an office.  We do this every other weekend.

We were about done, I thought she had to do a few more things but I was done sweeping so I went into the office where my coat was and stood there at the window (very few times we clean there when the sun is still out) looking out into the tree line that surrounds a train track that isn’t used much.  I stood there for 5 minutes just looking out.  Didn’t know she was standing behind me the whole time.  Didn’t even hear her giggle.  Finally I thought I’d go see if she was done and turned and there she was.  Nearly jumped out of my skin.  She was laughing.  Said she followed me into the room.  “Did you see something interesting? hahahahahaha”.

She came to the window.  I replied, “see the sun hitting the trees making the one side golden.  See the leafless bush there with the funny looking tops on the branches.  See the snow on the sides of the tree sparkle.”

Sometimes it’s just nice to stop and admire your surroundings by taking photographs with your eyes.  Leave the camera at home next time.

It’s always fun to watch the kids in Vietnam.

The three boys laying on the bed in Hue, were not making a long distance phone call to America. They were engrossed on playing a video game on the cell phone. Bin, the one playing, if he sees a phone he’ll want it just to look for games on it to play. And you’ll not see your phone again till the battery dies and he needs your charger so he can charge it. Not that he’s sorry that he killed the battery but to charge it so he can play some more… The other two boys, are waiting patiently for their turn and to help him out if he moves the wrong way on his game.

The three girls and Huan are playing the Horse Race Game.  Similar to the game I grew up playing with my parents, Sorry!  The players have to get their horses out of the box by rolling a certain number and go all around the board (paper).  They can knock each other off and be sent back to the starting box.  Yeah… the game of Sorry!

Mimi took rubber bands and tied them together and wrapped them around a house pillar and a plastic chair.   I thought it was interesting watching her jump moves that I knew if I would try, I’d probably fall of the porch and break a bone or 2.

Dried fish for sale at the Market in Vietnam. The smell wasn’t as bad as you might think, because it was masked by all the other smells at the market, it was a potpourri of smells.

You’ll see just about everything imaginable for sale in the market. We were walking buy a stand selling fish and the owner of the stall was cutting the head and tail of the tiny live fish – not a common site for us to see as we shop at our local Wal-Mart’s and Kroger stores.

These photos were taken in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam in 2005

I drove my 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 to a local downtown cruise-in and parked it. I was off walking around and taking photos of different cars and was slowly returning to mine. As I got closer I over heard a conversation between a Father and a Daughter.

“Do you like this car?”

The girl was standing at the drivers side window smiling as she shook her head yes and peaked inside the car.

I was close enough to say, “well, if you like it that much you need to do more than just look in the window.” I opened the door so she could sit. As she sat in the car, I chatted with her father (a school friend of mine) and snapped a few shots to post on facebook for them to see.

A Galaxie filled with Smiles

“Thanks guys! As soon as Bailey got back to the moose she was telling me all about this” pretty black car” that ‘some guy’ actually let her sit in. She thought she was queen for the day.” – Alishia

Thank you for the smiles

My wife and I traveled to Vietnam this past July 24th to attend a wedding in Hue. Her brother Minh is to be married. Actually the wedding took place yesterday and at the moment I can’t get the photos off my camera’s cf card, however I took some video with my sony bloggie and will post it below with more updates to follow later tonight.

I will discuss more of what I saw later. We are getting ready to head to the beach for the day.