Day 60

It’s 7 am and I don’t want to get up but I have to. I take my shower, get dressed and ready and go for a blog update when Xuan calls me telling we’re going for breakfast. We go to the lady next to the house and for the first time Xuan tells me the lady isn’t nice and that she has a ugly face, in fact she looks like a bulldog, no offense to any dog…

After breakfast, Xuan has to go to the bookstore so I grab all my stuff and go with her but before I prepare everything for the kids to able to watch Walt Disney’s Robin Hood, one of my favorite movies of my childhood.

At the bookstore, we buy everything we need and then she leaves me at the nail salon. As soon as I arrive there’s already ladies doing the manicure so I start preparing my stuff to practice. When it’s time to see how to put the acrylic nails I stop everything and go for the “knowledge drinking”. The girls want me to go to a party today with them but I have a busy evening and I agree with them that when I finish everything I have to do, I’ll call them to know where they are. In the meantime I’m able to nail my practice and the teacher doesn’t lose his head over me.

Around 12.30 pm I have a surprise, Xuan and the kids show up to pick me up and she tells me that without her saying anything when the kids saw her putting the helmet, they went to grab their shoes and helmets and said they were going with her; when she asked where, they answered they were going to pick me… no comments! These two are too cute for their sake! =)

The lunch is at the table when we arrive, we eat and when we finish, I go prepare everything needed to take to the fabric shopping today at the market. I print everything that is needed and when Xuan is ready we hop on the motorbike and go to An Dông market. We spend the all afternoon there and just bought half of what we need… our heads are almost exploding when the market is closing so we grab our stuff and head back home.

It’s around 6pm when we arrive and there’s no kids or Chi Mi or Chi Lam at home so we go for dinner at the barbeque while they don’t arrive. Once more, the chicken cutlets, the rice and the barbeque sauce are divine…

When we arrive home again we hear Thach Thao and Phuc’s voices and I know they’re arriving from their funny afternoon. It’s time for their dinner so while they eat, Xuan and me do our inventory of what we bought and what we still need to buy…

The kids finish and it’s time for their shower and it’s time for me to jump in my bed… I connect Skype and I’m able to speak with my parents and grandparents. My grandma starts remembering stories of when I was young and we laugh together and relieve those moments in a nice way… tomorrow is my 30^th birthday and it’s going to be the longest ever: it will start at 00.00 am in Vietnam and will finish at 11.59 pm in Portugal – almost 2 days of b-day celebrations! Ehehehe

Looking for fabrics left me really tired so I just go for the shower and then turn off the lights…

Night night everyone, don’t let the bedbugs bite!

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