Liam is tons better today

Liam has had a very good day. He has rested a bunch, and is acting much better. He has eaten solid food for the first time in over a week. We are so relieved!

It was a pretty uneventful day for us. We stayed in with him almost all day. We went out for a little over an hour to do some shopping. It was fun. I got fitted for a tailor made suit. I picked out my fabric and got measured. I go to try it on tomorrow. It was only $100. So cheap! We walked for a while until we got incredibly lost. It was no big deal…I figured we could catch a cab back to the hotel. But Chaunta had the great idea for us to take a rickshaw back. The driver spoke no English, but I showed him the card with the hotel name and address. We both got in, but were much to fat for it. I think it is only made for 2 Vietnamese which is about 1.5 Americans. But we squeezed in, sitting on each other’s lap. After driving us around for about 15 minutes and taking us to 3 places that were no where near our hotel, we started to worry that our driver didn’t know where he was going. But he did eventually get us there. However, he tried to grossly overcharge us about $12. We refused because a taxi would have only been $1. We argued for a while, but neither of us had any idea what the other was saying. We eventually got an employee from the hotel to translate. I told him that I would only pay $2, because he took us to the wrong place 3 times and a taxi would only be $1. The hotel employee agreed that it was a fair price. After some more arguing, he finally agreed on $2.50. We paid it. We felt bad since he was sweating profusely…we probably weighed about 400 pounds between us and the baby. But he was trying to rip us off because we were tourists.

After getting back, we relaxed the rest of the night. Liam is sleeping now. If he is still doing well tomorrow, we plan to take a train to Sapa tomorrow. Sapa is a small town in the Northwest Mountain Range on the Vietnam/China border. It looks very beautiful. We will take an overnight train there tomorrow, and then another one back on Sunday night.

Here is a picture of Liam today.