Good morning (from) Vietnam!

Good morning (from) Vietnam!

It is Saturday morning at about 9:00am (june 23 - Vietnam time)
We are currently at the Spring Hotel - a small place, but quite nice overall. Once we find out more how things are going to unfold and what our needs will be, we may make a move to another location. The others travelling with us are at another Hotel about a 10 minute walk from here. As most of you know we are with two other families from Ontario - Heather and Steve from Toronto and Andrea and Jim from Ottawa. Heather and Steve have adopted two wonderful children a son from Vietnam (northern part, near Hanoi) and a very energetic/talkative daughter from China, both of whom are travelling with their parents. Andrea and Jim, like us, are adopting their first child. (Andrea is a pediatrician and Jim is a dentist - so we are in good company! However, for the time being, the Spring Hotel will suite our needs fine.

As mentioned, we had a good, but long flight. We flew from Toronto to Anchorage. We were in Anchorage for about 45 minutes, but as this is U.S. soil we had to go through the regular immigration/customs protocol, which took about 30 minutes -- I had to think, what would have happened if someone did not have proper paperwork, would they have been sent back to the plane?? After streching our legs for about 15 minutes, we were back on the plane. We were then off on the long 10 hour flight to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong airport is quite new - not the old airport that is located in the heart of the city, where the airplanes flight in and around all the buildings. After about a 2 hour lay over, we were on the 2 hour flight to Ho Chi Minh City. We arrived here about 10:30am local time.

We are having a meeting today to find out what will happen next. We are expecting to travel to Tra Vinh sometime next week, although the exact date is not finalized. As we shared with many of you, this process will unfold on a day by day basis. We will keep you posted as we have more information - which of coarse may end up changing.

blessings to all of you
Vanessa and Taylor