Moped a' Go-ped

Papa Hah should've had more faith in us...

See ya soon!

As our time here in Vietnam is coming to an end, we’ve recently reflected on the many life lessons and experiences we’ve had. Due to the lack of reliable internet service here in Da Nang, you’ll have to wait a little longer for some quality videos. Until then, we’d like to share with you...

Things We’ll Miss...
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Things We’re Looking Forward to Back in the USA!
-MEXICAN FOOD
-Starbucks
-Doing our hair and wearing cute clothes
-Being cold
-Honda Accords
-Not speaking in charades
-Hot water (for showers)
-Not having to contemplate using the bidet because we’re out of toilet paper...again
-Diet Coke & Diet Dr. Pepper
-Heading straight to the clearance rack at Forever21 & not having to bargain
-We’ll be considered of normal height and stature, let’s just say we’ve been called grande by a french man
-Recognizing more labels other than Pringles and Oreos at the grocery store
-Our friends and family...DUH.

but seriously we will miss things such as...

-being treated like a celebrity, we’re surprised they haven’t asked for an autograph yet
-the children and women we were able to work with
-affordable coffee to have 3x’s a day or more
-flipping our lives minute by minute (as in videotaping on our flip camera)
-spending time with Paul & Deb
-not having to feel bad about not exercising since we bike 15 miles a day
-buying water from G-ma every morning before work
-having already seen every movie showing in the theatre & knowing the dates & times of the ones soon to come out
-the best red box we’ve found, every DVD imaginable yours to keep, all for 99 cents
-being together 24/7

We’d like to thank all our readers by name for sharing this experience with us...
-Mom and Dad Bixby
-Mom and Dad Kretzmann
-Courtney
-Tiffany
-and possibly, Jeff

hậh hậh very funny

THIS IS HAH SHE DO:

This is Hah she do
She make a move and act a fool while we up in our room
This is Hah she do
Nobody do it like she do it so show her some love

Fresh like uhhh, has a son, Than
Chrome mopeds, bike fix runs
You don't want, none
Key [her dog] betta, run
When beef is on, I'll run out, yuck
Come get, some
what’s that lump?
If it’s pho & noodles come & hand me some
It’s fish, yum
Ready here I, come
Da Nang, uhh
She found me I was, glum
Sellin my flip, she thought it was fun
I was tellin her when Papa Hah was sayin' "Dooong"
Hah don’t be blunt
These Cottage girls just wanna have, fun
Constant headache
She sleep a ton
I’m hangin the laundry towels and all
Take her key, I ain’t doing no wrong
Neighbahs in the front in case we pull a stunt

i havo smoothie

it all started with a conversation about mexican food on the way home from our service site. it suddenly dawned on us that this country does carry one crucial ingredient that would bring a little taste of mexico to our longing taste buds...AVOCADOS.

the only difference is that the Vietnamese drink their guac. yes, we resorted to avocado smoothies. and yes, they taste exactly how you expect them to.



after dipping our pringles into our smoothie we held back tears and walked them to their proper place, the trash. good thing our plane lands in Los Angeles where we're guaranteed at least 15 mexican restaurants in a one mile radius.



in other news, move in day on Sunday where the rats are the size of cats no kidding.



adios amigos.

Oh No-ped

After several days of watching the locals moped with ease through the worst traffic we've ever seen, we confidently booked a moped. Let's just say the plan failed and our legs were doubly chaffed that day. The following sequence of videos depict the most humbling experience to date. Enjoy and empathize.

Xin Chao (Hello) from Vietnam!

We're back in business. Sorry for the absence, but as you know, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

We've been thrown into a new environment that leaves it impossible to blend in. We usually like attention, as you've seen from our past youtube videos, but this is an entirely different level of scrutiny.

We would like to believe the stares we have received are not the result of the excessive amount of sweat on our bodies or our poor navigation through a sea of mopeds. We've convinced ourselves this attention is complimentary, even if it is followed by laughter and pointing.

For example, this morning we marched ourselves to the local internet cafe and confidently ordered our "Cafe Saigon", as heads turned and jaws dropped. Keeping in mind this is something that we will have to get used to, we sat down and started to return emails when suddenly we felt a looming presence in front of us.

Sensing this presence, we looked up to find a middle-aged Vietnamese woman looking between the two of us unashamedly. Thinking that these glances would be short lived, we went back to our work. Literally, two minutes later, the woman had not broken her stare, not satisfied with what was before her. We attempted other tactics to encourage her to look elsewhere, such as nervously laughing and staring back.

Nothing worked. Minutes later she returned to her table, which proceeded to turn their eyes this way as well.


We were too nervous to get a picture of her while staring, though we had plenty of time.


She was currently staring at us when we took this picture.

So what did we learn from this experience? We've been targeting the wrong demographic...it's obvious our youtube videos would be more widely accepted here.