Sudokuaholics Anonymous 9A

DAY10 26/1: HUE- PHONG NHA(B, L, D)
Early breakfast. Move to the national park of Phong Nha – Ke Bang - classified as the world heritage site, stop over at La Vang church and DMZ of Quang Tri. Lunch at restaurant. Boat trip on Son river to visit Phong Nha cave. Back to Hue on Ho Chi Minh road. Dinner and overnight at Hue city

DAY11 27/1: HUE- SAI GON(B, L)
Visit to the mausoleum of Tu Duc emperor, Temple of Huyen Tran Princess, climbing up the Five Dragon mount and shopping at Dong Ba market. Lunch at restaurant. Transfer to the airport for the flight to Sai gon. Take taxi by yourselfe to hotel. O/N in Sai gon. End of tour

Everything excluding airfair to/from Vietnam AU$900. PS the letters in (B L D) included Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

will try day 7 again, but is seems to upset my posts!

This is fascinating to read about, vdV. I'm gonna have to look up a lot of those places.

Mum called - all is good. She's going to sleep now.

Good news, Suzy! Pleased to hear it and I'll bet you're relieved!

My angel children have given me their colds. I am fighting a nasty headache - theirs have gone - and I am estimating a maximum of 2 minutes is going by in between people just having to tell me something exciting... aaaahhhhh!

Great to hear your Mum is okay Suzy.
vdV, wow what a trip. Great to read all about it.
Did you take lots of photos?
Hi Heidi.

Pleased to hear your mum is ok Suzy.
VDV that was some trip you took and you did so much for so little money.
I must be over working my sucky thing as the ground floor of my huse has to be done 2 or 3 times a week, but that comes with having two dogs and fitted carpets. I love my dyson and don't find it too heavy.
Hope the graduation ceremony went well Rolanda.
Gail pleased to hear that things are getting back to some sort of normal, well done on the sorting out of your bedroom. We have got to start on the garage, but need to have some dry weather before we start as things need to be dragged outside.

Hello my friends.
vdV have not read all but wow what a trip!
Zusy, so happy your Mum is OK, grrrrr about the cold.
Too tired to comment on anything I could remember so catch you later. Love and hugs to those who need them.

My daughter and I did a 'Gail' yesterday, lunch was lovely but better still was that we went to a jewellers and I chose the mount for the Tanzanite Richard bought for me when we were in Florida. I went with a couple of ideas on the type of mount I wanted but came away having chosen something completely different. I have to wait 2 weeks for the pendant to be made, but will post a photo when I get it. Will have to start saving for a 18ct white gold chain to wear it on. I will put a photo of the unmounted gem on my page for those who don't use FB.

Good Maen everyone! I got up WAY too early this morning, insomnia has reared it's ugly head again.
vdV: is your trip business or pleasure?
Brenda: I sometimes find the dyson heavy, but I have 3 floors to use the sucky thing on, so I sometimes skip the basement (where my office is). I had a hoover and found it didn't get much of the pet hair. The first time I used the dyson I had to empty the dirt cup 3 times!!! I wonder if the hoover ever picked up anything.

Hello to Brenda, Broni, Julie, Heidi, vdV, Vivacious Viv, Suzy, CynB and anyone else I missed.

Going to sign off for now, TTFN

Suzy, glad to hear the news about your mum ... thanks for letting us know.

everybody!
I got a good night's sleep. My last cow check showed me that nobody was going to calve overnight, so I got to sleep thru' the night.

GREAT news, Suzy!! Worth the wait. Like everyone else here, I was worried about your Mum.

I hope you get over the cold quickly, Suzy. . Tell your girls that sharing their cold is NOT a generous thing to do.

Sleepless in SA! Morning All.
Heidi, glad you had a good night's sleep.

We're making major progress in cutting up and removing that old fallen oak. About all that's left is the trunk, now. I'm concerned that my tractor may not be able to drag it. It's extremely heavy, and the ground is thawing. We've got mud again.

Morning all
I'm not sleeping well either. Seems to be going around tonight!

Off to see Brenda's photos..

At least it is 5:50 for you Zusy, it's only 4:30 up here...eeek! going to be a long day. Hope all is good with your mum.

Heidi can you put something like a piece of sheet metal under it so it will slide?

Put something under it??? It's about 40 feet long and averages 3 1/2 feet across. I can't lift it a millimeter to slide anything under it! Plus, it's frozen to the ground.

OK Heidi, I get the gist hehe! Didn't realise it was that big!
Interesting ready about tanzanite http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/english/tanzanite.html

Someone suggested that maybe there was a timber merchant around who may just want that sort of wood. It would cost a fortune over here to buy that type of timber.

ready=reading but you knew that!, perhaps I should try and get some more sleep?

Tanzanite is a very interesting gem, and as an investment it should increase in value as they say that it will be mined out within 10 years. I bought it because I fell in love with the colour of the stone. I couldn't afford the one I really wanted

Brenda... no timber merchant wants it. I've asked. Too much of it was already dead and they only want green wood.

Well, I better go back outside to help Robert. I needed a break.

Broni, do you have to work today or can you have a Nana nap?

Heidi, that's a big tree. I am not surprised you were sad to lose it.

Brenda, the stone is beautiful. I'm trying to imagine how spectacular the one you wanted might have been as this one is amazing!

No nana nap Zusy, working today.

Brenda.... I just had a look at that Tanzanite. Breathtaking stone. I could lose myself in that deep blue color. I like this so much better than diamonds, rubies, emeralds, etc.

Bugger Broni!

Do you ever as a parent have to bite your tongue so you don't say 'I told you so'? Ebob tends to hang out with kids who don't have the same type of long term goals that she has. One of them is now throwing tantrums because Ebob's extra subjects means she can't hang out with her as much, and because another of their mutual friends is looking into leaving school and enlisting in the army. They are 'ditching' her. I bit my tongue and all I said was 'that's not reasonable'...

That kid sounds selfish. A real friend cares about what's best for her friend, not herself.

You bet Heidi!

I've taken Ebob to school and mailed some puzzle books to Mum. They won't guarantee overnight to the hospital - it seems we can't get overnight mail to anywhere but Sydney - wonder why they call it that then! Ally is still asleep - every part of her aches...

Suzy, glad mum is doing ok. Hope you, Ally and Ebob feel better soon.
Suzanne, hope you feel better soon from the fall. (I will be nice and not make any nasty comments)
Steve, the trip sounds fabulous.
Hello to anyone else I may have missed.
Have a baseball game in a few minutes. Be back later or tomorrow.

Morning Everyone

Glad to hear that your mum is doing ok Suzy.

Robert graduated as
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) (Honours) First Class Honours
and
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
and
Member of the Vice Chancellors List (www.vclist.curtin.edu.au)

Good morning lovely SA people.
Suzy - I take it you mean that even those yellow overnight satchels won't go 'overnight' from your town to Bendigo. It's typical - if you don't live in a state capital city, the powers that be don't care. Best wishes continue for your Mum's recovery.
I'm off to see my Mum in about an hour. These days she spends her days (and nights) in front of the TV, which is hilarious for a woman who watched very little TV normally. I found her watching The View followed by Ellen DeGeneris - two shows she would never have watched once.
The ad up in the links section of this page (top right) for me shows 'Ho Chi Minh City Flights' - probably picked up on vdV's travelogue.
Have a nice day all!