One week and counting...

Well, we have been here one full week. With no real agenda today, we set out on foot with the Barans towards the French Quarter to check out a couple of sites. After a stop by a nearby larger grocery-store (where we bought Zach some more baby food that wasn't available at the smaller grocery store at our hotel - we needed it because when we gave him peas this morning for the first time this morning, he told us "politely" in not so many words, "I don't like peas."), then a quick lunch at Restaurant Bobby Chinn (just average, but we didn't try the famous mac-n-cheese...), we headed over to the Hanoi Opera House, which is beautiful from the outside and supposed to be even more spectacular inside - unfortunately, though, it was closed to visitors today, so we will have to return sometime in the next couple of weeks. We ventured further to the Vietnam Revolutionary Museum, which provides a historical perspective of, well, you probably guessed, Vietnam's many revolutions. It was an interesting museum, but really, Zachary mostly enjoyed the big globe ("look mommy, I'm on top of the world!!"). After that, on account of the continued extreme heat, we were pretty tired, so we came back to the hotel for a little attempted shut-eye; but Zach would have none of that. We played in the room for a while, then met Greg, Mary and Alivia Bailey for dinner at the hotel restaurant (they recently relocated from the Lucky Star to the Somerset). The Baileys are a very sweet couple from Denver, and their daughter, Alivia, is beautiful. She is just about the same age as Zachary, having been born on 2/16/07.

Zach had a couple of "firsts" today. For one, he drank water directly from a water bottle. Very cute, especially when he reached for more after each sip. Second, he giggled up a storm at dinner. Despite the bad lighting, there is a pretty funny video that we have uploaded to the site (see the link below).

We hope everybody reading this blog is doing well.