Its rice growing season again and the fields are tinged with green.
They still use buffalo to work the rice fields and below is one of their stables complete with hay stack.
The rice in this photo has been growing for abour three weeks.
There have been a run of birthday parties recently with school friends, which have been a lot of fun for the kids. This one was at the beach and the kids enjoyed swimming, eating hotdogs and birthday cake and also included a game of paintballing! Last weekend we were at another one which ended with creme caramel (was a French kid) and pizza around a fire down on the sand.
Hair continues to grow longer and the kids are not planning on having a haircut untill they are back in Australia. That will be over 6 months between haircuts!
Local stationary store with Tet decorations for sale.
This person is polishing brass candle holders (has been doing this every day all day for the past week with people bringing him items) and is an example of how everything has to be cleaned for the Tet celebrations. Fences and houses get painted, new clothes and plants are bought, and houses are cleaned to with an inch of their lives.
While we were walking around Hoi An Old Town, on a beautiful balmy night, we came across a display of martial arts put on by a number of local Hoi An youth clubs. It was pretty impressive and involved lots of moves, swords, lances and other equipment.
Old friends enjoying a local board game on the footpath in front of their house.
We have access to the local Vietnamese school pool and the kids swim laps (occassionally) then have a lot of fun in the pool.
Last year the school kids put on the Lion King production which was really fun, they did a great job and as a result they were all asked to put on another performance for the students at the Singapore International School in Danang. Everyone really enjoyed it again and had a lot of fun.
Al and I have been enjoying catching up for lunch most days and have a few favourite spots that we go to - occasionally still also like to try different places. There are over 400 restraunts in Hoi An which is amazing for such a small town. Many restaurants are aimed at the tourists and it really is an example of how reliant the town is on tourism.
The photo below left is a place we call the Zen Garden (not its real name) as it has a very relaxed bamboo-y atmoshpere, and the family that run the place are lovely. The owner in the photo speaks French and usually delivers our meals to the table with a French-Vietnamese 'Bon Apetit!'.
This boat is located on the river in the centre of Hoi An Old Town with a family of husband, wife and a 10 year old daughter who live on the boat. During the day they have a restaurant open in the front half of the boat and we stopped in for lunch one day. It was a nice experience eating lunch on the river, sitting on small low plastic stools, and trying out their version of My Quang (Hoi An noodle dish pronounced Mee Wong) .
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