Yard Sale--check!

Thanks to everyone that stopped by and bought something at the yard sale last week. We made enough to pay for A.'s flight to Ha Noi, so I'm pretty excited about that.

Now on to paying for our actual time in Viet Nam. I need to come up with about $3000 and while I'm not exactly sure how that is going to happen, I'm not panicking yet. I've got about a third of it nailed with my work-study job. And we are having another yard sale (less of our stuff will equal less income, but any is good. We've had some nice donations to our cause (and those donors can rest assured that we will be sending them kitsch from VN and/or Thailand); I really do have some great friends spread around the country.

So, next on the list are the visas. For some reason, this part frightens me slightly. I'm worried that for some untold reason they will be denied and it will all have been in vain. I just have to suck up and do it, send the passports, the fees and the application off to San Francisco and hope for the very best. If it's meant to be... That has become my mantra of late.

In a side note, our grapes are nearly ready. Another week or two and we'll have a day of steaming grapes to can grape juice. Homemade grape juice--there's nothing like it, really. You're welcome to some if you come help pick grapes! It is an arduous task, inspired by my dear grandma, but well worth it in the end.