100 happy days: week 6.

It's a little late, but it's never too late, so here is the latest installment of my weekly 100 happy days project...

Day 65

Day 65: when we sat by Sword Lake in Hanoi watching the couples take their wedding photos. Most were dressed in fancy wedding garb but this couple went a little more casual with matching plaid tops; hers was a halter plaid top and she also wore a bright red hat and a white tutu. He wore black Chucks. I liked their style.

Day 64

Day 64: when I stood on our balcony watching the kids across the street play some bizarre game of tag. I tried to figure out the rules. I think they went something like this: tag someone, run halfway down the block while the rest of the gang runs in circles, run back and try to tag someone, everyone scream really loud and then giggle like maniacs. It was very cute.

Day 63

Day 63: when Kenny the Social Climbing Goat made me laugh out loud. Are you following Kenny? If not, you should be.

Day 62

Day 62: when all the clocks at the hostel had completely different times. Not time zones - times. We have seen this in other places too. And no city seems to have the correct time difference between Vietnam and NYC. There was a time (no pun intended) when this would've driven me batty. But sometimes (again, no pun intended) I love the little reminders that the world does not revolve around what time it is in the United States.

Day 61

Day 61: when the nice Buddhist lady at our favorite vegetarian spot in Ho Chi Minh City showed us how to eat our dinner. (Not pictured: nice Buddhist lady.) They do that a lot here - take your chopsticks from you and mix up your food, then point to various spices and sauces on the table and your food indicating you should add these spices and sauces to make the food taste better. Even though we've been here almost two months and think we have the hang of eating, it's still charming in a grandmotherly kind of way.

Day 60

Day 60: when nature shows up and my partner in crime is content to sit on a bench while I take a billion shots trying to get just the right one.

Day 59

Day 59: when Hoi An redeemed itself as the lovely little city that it is. Our second time around was much more pleasant than our first, and of the ten or so cities we've visited, Hoi An might now be in my top three.