In the afternoon we made our Friday trip to the Co Op market and bought food for the week. It's always such an adventure and I'm glad Ron goes with me. Then in the evening we met Carie after her work at Ice Blue and after a few drinks we walked to the Vin Com center to a huge food court and had dinner at Pinocchios. We all had a different pannini. After dinner we walked all around the mall and had an ice cream.
I hurried home to FaceTime my friends at The Falls, but the call came in on my cell phone (which I can't use over here) and so I didn't have it's battery charged. Therefore I had to sit about 3 feet away from the plug. I did get to see their faces though, and they tried calling back later, and I didn't get the call. They are going to try again Tuesday when they all meet to play tennis at 8:00 AM (9:00 PM my time) and I'll be ready to go this time.
Saturday morning Ron played tennis with me again. We've played 4 times now and every time my leg feels better and better. I've also been walking on the tread mill and swimming. Ron has been running every single day since he got here! Saturday night we drove about 1/2 hour away to another gigantic mall with a restaurant on the top floor called Viking. We met 2 other Fulbrighters who are both here on student Fulbright awards. There was a guy and a girl both from California. The guy brought his Vietnamese wife, but he spoke better Vietnamese than she did. They have a 4-year old daughter who is being watched by her mother. It was another hot pot restaurant. They have tabletop grills with boiling broth and it's buffet style where you choose meats, vegetables, fish, or seafood and place it in the broth to cook. They had items that were completely foreign to me, so I stuck with the shrimp (with heads), clams, crab and some small corn-on-the-cob, carrots and mushrooms.
Sunday, Carie's mother rode Carie here on her motorbike and brought me a pommelo. The one I bought last week was very difficult to peel and slice, so she showed me exactly how it's done. I love them. They are dipped in salt once they are sectioned off and it looks like grapefruit but it's not sour or juicy like a grapefruit. In fact, she said they call them grapefruits too sometimes. Then we had our Vietnamese language class with Carie and learned more about shopping in the market, how to ask for the prices, and how to bargain. It's coming along - but very slowly. We FaceTimed Wade so he could open our mail and sort out our bills from the junk. Said hi to Buster.
I woke up early this morning to watch the Grammys, but we got NO SERVICE until around 10:00, so I've missed a lot. It's on a channel called Star World. Ron got picked up by Carie's brother Luan on his motorbike and they are going to the store to buy several electronic items we need.
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