It has been a long time since our arrival to Berkeley. We drove straight to the hospital from Donner Lake to be the first to see the twins, Grant and Chase!! They are cute! We have since helped Lisa's sister do some home renovation work then we flew all the way across the country to Maine to take a week long AP workshop. This was to prepare for our new teaching assignments in Hanoi. The workshops were great but intense and fast. We managed to visit our friends Gelman and Rosie and their 7 month old son, Sam in Portland for a few days before returning to California. The return trip took us 17 hours! We volunteered to be bumped off our flight from Portland, ME. This then led us on a 1.5 hour taxi ride to Boston airport, security check complete with full body scan with an X-ray backscattter scanner, then a flight to Minneapolis that was late leaving. We got off the plane at 2:03 and then RAN from gate D6 to G17, like a half mile, to catch our 2:15 flight. Needless to say, although we arrived at the gate at 2:13 sweaty and breathless, we were not allowed to board the plane. So, after some discussion time with a Delta representative, 2.5 hours later we were were sitting in first class for a 3 hour flight to San Francisco. Sweet!
Today we took the BART into San Francisco then a cable car to the Vietnam Consulate to get our passports stamped with our work visa for the year. We were told it would take 20 minutes. An hour and a half later, we were all set!
We leave in less than a week.
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