Getting closer

So everyone wants more info - quite honestly, we don't have any more info and probably won't until we are in VN. We did book our plane tickets to Hanoi yesterday so at least we are getting in the country. As for getting out of the country, we are going to wait until we know more about our schedule to book our tickets.

Here's the lowdown -- we need the girls to enter Hong Kong using US passports, not their VN passports, in order to get them HK visas that match ours. So, that means that I have to return to the US BEFORE entering Hong Kong. Yes, only 2 hours away from home, yet I have to fly around the world to enter. I guess the brightside is that we won't be jet-lagged while in VN and Wit can easily leave if needed.

What are we doing in the meantime? We are going to Ho Chi Minh City this weekend to take our mind off the wait. A little retail therapy that VN cures really well. And then we really only have 1.5 weeks until we go back to VN.

On another topic -- I think folks at Britax seriously got something wrong with their First Class car seat. It is a UK model. When it is installed rearward facing, the diagonal seat belt strap crosses right thru the place where you need to put the babies. It is by far the stupidest design I have ever seen, mainly because the seat sits so high off the car seat. We would have to unbuckle the seat every time we needed to put a baby inside. Maybe it is because the backseat of our car isn't enormous and the car seat sits really high, but they could have seriously thought about this a little more. So, I went to a friend's and tried putting it in her larger car. Same conclusion -- complete crap. The only reason I complain is that HK has this really awful return policy, where they DON'T. This is one of my biggest pet peeves about HK. You can't return anything here. If you can, you maybe have 3 days to do it and you only get store credit. Then when you argue with them (which makes me feel better), they get worried but do nothing about it. I am at war with Mothercare. Oh, and you can't try it in your car before you buy it. That is today's project -- get the car seats returned. Ughh!