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yes, less than a week here now in Tam Ky. We are busy trying to fit everything we want to in our last days here.

It's been quite hectic the past week or two. There have been two outings (using money received from peeps back home and from other volunteers also raising money). We took the Baby Orphanage kids out to the local gaming room (a Vietnamese version of 'Time-Out'). After about an hour there we took them to the local mall where they had dinner at the food court. Chicken and rice and veges! yum. Folllowed by fruit salad (provided by Ange of course). Then yesterday we took the Home of Affection kids to the local amusement park, followed by the local swimming pool, and then the local noodle house. BIG smiles on the kids faces and good fun busy times.

Just so you NZ guys know, we arrive in wellington airport at 2:30pm on wednesday the 11th of June. We are flying from Singapore where we are staying the night.

Finally I can add some more photos, so here you go. See you all soon.

harvesting the rice. This happened over a month ago already and the fields now are starting to look green again with new rice growing.

sleeping on the job...

our young friend 'little budda'

playing with some new toys

more new toys

we went to Sapa for a couple of days and did an overnight trek. It's 3000 feet up from the lowlands so quite cooler than what we were used too, but some beautiful views.

rice paddies in Sapa. Sapa is 10 hours north of Hanoi by sleeper train. It's very close to the China border.

lucy with some ladies in sapa. They follow you on the trek trying to sell you jewellery, clothing, mats etc.

lucy trekking with the local kids. note the steep drop off next to where she is walking. A real trooper.

father and daughter

we bought some new shoes for the Home of Affection kids

he likes his new shoes

and young lads showing their skipping skills