Daddy Time!!

Hello everyone! It is about 10AM here in Hanoi on Wednesday, 9/5/07. We have not left yet - on advice of the doctor we are seeing here, we postponed flying with Zachary until Friday, 9/7/07 -- which is at least one day earlier than our original departure date, and gets us back to Boston on Saturday morning.

Chad is on daddy duty today while Alyssa enjoys a day trip with the Barans to Hoa Lu, Vietnam's ancient capital, which is about a 2-hour drive from Hanoi. We are using the same tour company for this day-trip that we used for the day-trip to Halong Bay - Buffalo Tours (http://www.buffalotours.com/), and we requested the same excellent guide - Ahn. For those of you traveling to Vietnam, we are happy to recommend this company if you wish to take any excursions in, and around, Hanoi.

We sadly said goodbye to two more of our of travel-group PLAN families between yesterday and today. Jessica and Kai Zedler, along with their travel friends Sandy and Mary-anne, all from Wisconsin, left yesterday evening. Eric, Nicole, and Grace Neri, plus Nicole's parents, all from the S.F. Bay area, left this morning. As you can imagine, it has been a very emotional experience for us here, and while we are sad to say goodbye, we are so HAPPY for the friends we have made and that we will all be able to experience the lives of our children, who share such a unique bond, growing up together. Gladly, we are already talking about our first reunion!

Well, because Alyssa has our camera with her today, I do not have any new pix to include in this post, so I have chosen to include a classic shot from the day we first met Zach! Even though it was only about 2 weeks ago, we feel like he has been in our hearts and our lives forever.