Day Three in Hanoi

So, where did days one and two go? Yes, I'm am a bit behind in my posts. Definitely not intentional. Right now as last night, the males in the family are sleeping soundly while the girls are up in the middle of the night. Why you ask? I'll recap.

Day One - We arrived late the night before after a short two hour flight form Ho Chi Minh City. Then we took an hour taxi ride to the hotel. Thankfully Mark and the other Dad staying at our hotel hired a taxi form within the airport for us to get to our hotel. Because when we were getting ready for breakfast I realized I left my backpack in the backseat of the taxi. Not a good feeling to start the day. We had the receipt and the hotel desk promised they would call when they opened up. (I got it back around 1130pm with everything still in it!!!) So, on to breakfast. After breakfast my day began to blur. Not long after we returned to our room I started getting really hot and then really sick. I spent most day in bed. Then about 8 pm as Hannah woke up from a nap she complained of a tummy ache. At first I thought she was just hungry because she had been sleeping about four hours, but, she was hot too. Two sick girls = messed up sleeping routines. Two healthy guys = sleeping soundly through the night.

Day Two - Hannah is feeling better, Mom is still weak. Hannah really perked up when I told her that her new best friend was moving into our hotel later that day. Again I stayed close to the apt. while Daddy and his two littlest ones went to the playroom. Later that afternoon I received a call from our agency telling us that our paperwork had finally arrived from the province and they would pick us up in 30 minutes. I rounded up the our three families (everyone was out of their rooms but me)and we went to apply for our children's passports. This was the fastest thing we've done so far. Immigration was only a short van ride from the hotel and all three families had applied for the passports in about 20 minutes! We will be albe to pick them up next Thurs and then we will have the children's medical appts, on Friday we will have our visa interview and hopefully pick up the visas in the afternoon. After we receive the visa we will be free to come home. Hannah had a really busy day and once again has a fever so, about 5pm we go for a nap, but, Daddy lets us sleep. Now at 3:30 am. Hannah and I are wide awake, Josiah and Daddy sleeping soundly.

Josiah is doing well. He's warming up to Daddy since Mommy has been sick. Cheerios are great! When I first layed down on Wed he just stood by the bed looking at me. Mark came in with some Cheerios. He expected Mark to give them to him and leave, but, Mark told him he had to go with him to get them. After a short tantrum he did. Here are some pictures of Dad and son bonding with cheerios.