The River

It's Monday again and time for school. With so much fun yesterday, the girls didn't feel like doing school work. It went down a bit better with our morning recess spent in the pool!

After lunch we headed into town and made our way to the river. We did some negotiating and settled on a boat to take us for a ride along the river. It was a little cooler today and the breeze on the river felt great. The girl running our boat told us about a flood they had last year. The river was up 3 meters! Many houses had been flooded. We are nearing the end of the rainy season in Hoi An and the river is up only one meter.

Along the river we saw boys fishing, house boats (amazing that you can call them that because they aren't much more than a large canoe), and all sort of houses. It's very poor here, and it made me so thankful for all that we have. We are so lucky.

After the boat ride we went in search of a restaurant that gave cooking lessons. We eventually found one that was reasonably priced, but by this time it was too late to get supplies for the cooking class, so we arranged to do it the day after tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to it.

We did a little shopping too, and I couldn't resist the custom made shoes. We'll see how they turn out tomorrow. For those of you who know how many black shoes I have, you'll be glad to know that I asked for red! Although I do confess that if they turn out well, I might order another pair in black!

We had an early supper and Yasmin and I played Roya and Nadim at a game of pool. It took us quite a while to complete a game because none of us is very good. Still fun.

Now the girls are having a quick dip in the pool and off to bed early tonight. We're planning to go to some ruins and marble mountain tomorrow and will be getting an early start.

CM