Another full day of meandering thru the Old Town, shopping - picking up our finished garments and glasses, and of course snacking along the way. We went to our first fittings for our clothes (a couple new shorts and capris for Jade). Everything fit me very well, they just needed to put buttons for the finishing touches. Jade needed a few adjustments done, nothing major, on hers. After that we walked up to pick up my new glasses. They fit great and the prescription is perfect. They're a little different in style, kind of a throw back to the eighties - but hey for 50 bucks including frames - lenses - and exam... Why not. We also stopped up at another glasses shop. I ended up finding a second pair that I loved, and that we ended up springing for. Jade said in her parental tone - ok now, that's it for a few more years. I happily agreed. The second pair is a black plastic boxy-modern pair. Jade impulsed a cute little 6 buck cover up robe thing (of which I'm not fully sure if it's to lounge around the house in - or sleep in... But I'm a guy - she assured me, Girls have these things...). Jade also got a little loungy pair of pants - which will be ready tomorrow.
Jade went to her 5pm scheduled facial - and I took a nap and watched the Discovery channel. We cleaned up, and then went out to dinner.
Dinner was another amazing dish - of local favorites. Again - everything extremely fresh - vibrant - and cleverly flavored. They pair salty with sweet - crunchy with slippery - which proves time and time again an exciting eating experience.
The day felt like a hard day's work with all of the shopping etc. We're in for a relaxing next few days though - of which we look forward to, to wrap up our adventure.
The dogs here are very interesting. They all go unleashed and roam around, but they all seem to have a home. They're all very mixed - we've seen short legged German Sheppard like dogs - big chihuahua like dogs with spots - fluffy flopsy mixes of who knows what - and they pay little attention to humans. They lay around mostly but we've seen a few playing together - and scavenging the nearby trashes for snacks.
Sounds like shopping was a major success. It IS exhausting with all the browsing, selecting, trying on and paying, right?! And actually, many clothing items "back home" are made in Vietnam...you could have just gotten them here! (wink) About all the dogs....I bet Arthur is the cutest!! The dogs there wouldn't quite know what to do with a pure bred little Boston, would they! It's been two weeks today - you have really seen and done a lot. Love and miss you (it's not like I am counting the days 'til you start heading home or anything) mom
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