Ice cream and sad things

Its very unfortunate, but two of our close friends have decided to leave Hanoi. They are heading back to Minnesota for a while, and Mike and I are really going to miss them!For those of you who remember when I worked at the daycare in New Rochelle, it seems as though things may be headed in a similar direction here.

Sorry no photos, but a little update -- about 10 of us went to an ice cream buffet tonight, I had about 7 scoops which was great! Their coffee was particularly good. On the walk home we saw our first scooter accident. No one was seriously hurt, I don't think they were going very fast but there were a few plastic pieces strew about the road.

Good bye Eric and Laura, we are going to miss you!

A walk to school

This is our building from below! We live on the 10th floor

There is a gas station right on the corner of our street. Every single person on a scooter drives down the sidewalk for half a block to a driveway instead of getting back on the road at the gas station. Also, every single day we see people cut across traffic to start driving the wrong way down the street so that they can drive up on to the sidewalk to get to the gas station (instead of going further up and doing a U turn and not going into oncoming traffic)

A view of the street we walk down to get to work. You can see across the street most people park their scooters right on the sidewalk. It makes walking difficult :P

The ridiculously massive propaganda poster inside of the police station down the street.

I caught a gecko! He stayed with me for the whole walk home one day! Mike thinks he was playing dead, but I knew he wanted to be my pet. I set him free though, sigh

Uh oh, I think I am in trouble...

Crossing streets in Hanoi, I might be a little bit out of my depth! I don't think I will be trying out a scooter on my own for quite some time!