Home Again

Hey Everyone! I know we haven't posted in over 6 months but we thought we would finish of the blog, a kind of finale. So as you would have guessed we have been home for quite some time. The flight home was long (16 hours long) and we were VERY jet-laged and tired, but wonderful Deb, Emma, Dawson, Jane, Bill, and Johann came to meet us at the airport. We are home safely and have a new addition to our family (Joey the dog). Thanks for all the donations and support for our trip! The Hay Cooper Family!

3 days!!!!!

Me and Quan Anh
Daniel and My Huong
Quan Anh
Unknown, Nhum, Duy.
Hi everyone! Maeve here.

On Sunday we went to Vung Tau and took a taxi to the Intourco Resort.

We arrived and said we had a resorvation and they said OK but the room you

wanted is only available for one night and the only other room is a one double bed.

We finally talked to the manager and everything worked out. We relaxed the rest of

the day. On Monday we hung out all morning and then at 2 we went to the centre (orphanage).

Ninh has been adopted to Canada and Tuan to Spain so we have some new baby's. Today

we met My Huong for lunch then went to the centre and heard lots of stories about the kids.

We will be home in 3 days and I want to live here forever! No offence to Canada.

I am going to post some pics of the kids in My Huongs village.

See everyone soon.

Maeve

The Countdown begins!

View from Hotel Room
Back Beach hotel room view
Entrance to Siem Reap Airport
Siem Reap Airport

Monday March 1st 2010, Nancy here.

Its 10 oclock in the morning and 27 degrees and hazy. Exactly one week from today Maeve and Nina will be at school, I will be at work, and Brian will be unpacking, or maybe shovelling snow.

It is hard to believe that while I gaze out at the ocean in Vung Tau.

We left Cambodia on Saturday am and flew to Ho Chi Minh City. The flight was a short and bumpy one hour. We arrived in the crazy, crowded, and noisy HCMC, quite a change from the relative quiet of Siem Reap but still a lovely 35 degrees! We went to our favourite guesthouse there, the Red Sun, and stayed for one night. We had to stop at the market to buy another duffel bag!!! to store our ever increasing "stuff' . I think Deb will need to rent a cube van to come and get us!!!!!

We took the Soviet diesel express of a hydrofoil , we are veteran hydrofoil riders now, and zipped to Vung Tau in just 1 hour. We are spending a few days here to visit the orphanage, the babies, and our friends here , before heading back to HCMC and home.

Craig and Kelly from Vancouver are also in Vietnam and will fly to HCMC to rendevous with us before we leave ! Hurray!

The girls and Brian are in the pool, and I am packing up the suitcases to switch rooms. We are off to the orphanage this afternoon !

Talk to you soon

oxoxox N

Cambodia

Hi everyone! Maeve here once again!

We were in Cambodia for the last week. We took a "fast" boat to Phnom Penh and stayed in the Goldiana Hotel was really expensive especially for a place with no wifi in the rooms and a really bad TV signal but it had a pool. We stayed there and just walked around and explored etc. Then took a 6 hour bus to Siem Reap and stayed at the Mekong Angkor Palace which also had a pool. We went to Angkor Wat and there were lots of beggars. I have to go 'cause Dad wants to see the Hydrofoil times for tomorrow. See you 5 days!

Maeve

P.S. The picture of our feet in the water was a fish massage and they fish "licked" our feet!