Wednesday, we managed to see the remaining two things I wanted to see all in one outing: The Museum of Ethnology and Water Puppet Theater. There was an outdoor performance at the museum, so it worked out really well. The museum is dedicated to the 54 different ethnic groups within Vietnam, each with a unique cultural history. There is an outdoor exhibit of several of the tribal houses, which are the best exhibits, in my opinion. Lilah's birth certificate indicates that she is Kihn, which I was really interested in. I had reseearched it before going to the museum, only to find out that about 86% of Vietnamese are Kihn, which is also referred to as Viet. The beautiful traditional music that we've heard here was performed by her ancestors.
While Lilah and I napped, Gramma Joyce took a motorbike ride! The girl (she's a mother of a 3 year old, but looks like she's 14) at the front desk offered Joyce a ride, telling her "you'll be ok". Joyce took her up on it and got a ride in crazy Hanoi traffic. That will be an experience to talk about, for sure.
I hadn't mentioned some of the issues going on here with adoptive families previously, mostly to protect Faith from the anxiety of problems that we didn't necessarily have. The US government either held up or denied 24 adopted children's visas to enter the US due to "red flags" with their cases, including 4 families from our agency, which seem pretty weak when you hear them. One of the families is going home tomorrow after 6 weeks, and I'm hoping the other 3 go home shortly, as well. Through all this, our agency stood by their families and helped them fight it while other agencies threw their hands up and said there was nothing they could do. Faith put a lot of research into choosing PLAN, and it was the absolute best choice. I couldn't imagine facing something like that without their help.
Tyler
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