Days Six, Seven, Eight and Nine...

Week Two had one team staying to finish off the Lagoon house....and Team Two splitting up to dig out two septic systems...Need I say more...

Katrina testing it out...

Ballooning around...

This is us with the family we were building the WC for....

The homeowner had us in tears when she said..." I don't have to eat because I am so full with gratitude for you being here..."

R & R

Mui Ne was the site of our R & R this past weekend....It's about a four hour drive from Bien Hoa and is on the South China Sea...The Blue Ocean Resort was absolutely beautiful...

Here's some pics...

Temple for Uncle Ho...

Guarding Uncle Ho...

Blue Ocean Resort pool...



Oceanside Tent for massages and pedicures...



Two Michelles in a Teacup boat...Not sure how they don't sink? (the boat that is, not the Michelles)



Sheldon...Man do starfish smell!




Mui Ne fishing village...


The Dunes...

The Vietnamese Bobsledding Team...oh, I think we need a hill....

Day Five...

Day Five was a half day at work and then a Celebratory Lunch as Site two finished off...(not finished off the house but finished working at that site...the group is now moving onto some highly crucial work...building septic tanks!)

Here's Day five pictures...

Some pre-day warm up with the Construction Supervisor...





Paul losing Pokeman cards to Michelle B...




Paul...that might be too many bricks? Oh no...I'm falling through the floor....ugh....good thing my arms caught....


Unfortunately, no one caught the fall on camera....but here is the view through the hole in the floor that Michelle P went through and almost fell through...15 feet...



Here's the Site One team....What a good looking crew!



Sheldon and Stephen playing Vietnamese frisbee....




These beautiful Vietnamese ladies came by our site to check things out......
(Is there any wonder why size XXL is too small for me here??)





Site Two Team....(Even better looking than site one!)





Michelle B and the Site Two Homeowners....




Celebration Lunch....

Did someone say Dog Soup?




Our Fearless Leaders showing us the way by trying the Rice Wine...





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Good news....Bad news....

Good news.....

Although I had the best time in the Princesses Room in Madagascar.....(therma-rest & sleeping bag on cement...under mosquito nets...with an outhouse next door...) I took this picture to show you what Habitat life in a hotel is like....

And the bad news is.... This is what Michelle P and Kelly found on their pillow....

Day Four...

Too hot, too tired, too busy to write anything today...

Here's Day Four pictures...

Dr Sheldon performing reconstructive surgery....







Site One team... Sitting on a grave...(Who or what really knocked on Mich P's room at 2am??)





Paul and Mr Chang... (any wonder why Paul has trouble buying clothes here?)

The go fishing here with battery packs on their backs...and then electrocute the fish. Not sure why the fisherman don't get electrocuted too?

Michelle B and Van...like the helmets?

Day Three...

Just when it seems like it can't get any hotter here...the sweat starts dripping off your nose..(and that's when you're standing in the shade!)

To tell you a little about a typical day here in Bien Hoa...

We're up for breakfast in the hotel at 7am, then hop on the bus at 7:30am. We drop off one team at their site and then the other...

Work goes until about 11:30am when all of the skilled workers leave for lunch...We then have lunch and aren't suppose to go back until the workers come back...Since they usually take about a two hour lunch, you'll see a lot of hammock pictures while we wait for them...

It's then back to work until about 4-4:30...(by that time, you are essentially covered in sweat and dirt and ready to pass out from heat exhaustion...)


Each night we then head out to a different Vietnamese restaurant...

Here's some highlights from today...

Michelle P and Paul V moving dirt...


Katrina moving rocks....


(I'm not sure if you noticed, but we spend a lot of time moving things from one spot to another...In Canada, we call that "Make work projects" lol )


Toshi trying to get some coconuts down...




Toshi showing off his coconuts....




Paul checking out Toshi's coconuts...



Katrina brick laying....


(although she's missing the hat and fag...)



Michelle P waiting out the long lunch....

This picture is just in case you thought Mich P just laid around in hammocks all day....

Did I mention that we wear nametags in case we get inspected?

The best part of any build is the kids!

I ended my day with a card game with the guys....And got my butt kicked. Then as I was leaving, they ran over to give me some cards...I think they think I need practice!