Vietnam
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Our son, an engineering consultant, obtained a job in Hanoi, Vietnam. The reason for taking this job was that he had the opportunity to take his wife and daughters with him. We helped the girls pack-up and took them to the airport in August 2010. As we had never been to Vietnam – I had been very briefly, less than a week in any of them, to Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Apart from a few days in Bangkok, my wife had never visited the Far East. We therefore decided to visit the children for Christmas and the New Year.
As one of our Christmas presents, our son bought my wife and myself a cruise in Ha Long bay. The boat took no more than 50 passengers and we were asked to take seats for dinner at a table for two couples. The couple who sat down at our table were American; the husband was a lawyer and lived two streets (they lived in 3rd Street our daughter in 5th Street) away from our daughter and son-in-law, also a lawyer, in Brooklyn, New York.
Date submitted:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:28:59 +0000Coincidence ID:5751
