went out with jess and nhi last night for dinner. very country vietnamese cooking and atmosphere but quite popular with expat community now. big day on sunday. today is saturday, ms. han has organized the entire party so i'm free of worries. went to fine art museum in the city ... 3 floors. first floor was childrens art, maybe ten years old, second floor was old art and sculpture and third was a lot of the same. interesting. very glad i went. i was enjoying the childrens art and thinking finally a museum where there is not the ever present reminder of agent orange ... and then there it was among the kids paintings, war and agent orange art (notice the pink airplanes and the bombs dropping). most of it was family, environment, teacher, play but there were some disturbing works by kids. sad. was also thinking that anyone born after 1970 was just a child when the war ended, and anyone born after 1975 completely missed it. perspective: we got married in 1974 before the war ended. how hard dad avoided coming to vn at one time and now he cant be away.
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