A custom made day

We started the morning yesterday with a visit to Miss Forget Me Not for Eric's first fitting.  We were able to ride bikes into town.  I saw a beautiful silk, and commented it is too bad I didn't have time to have a dress made with it, as we were leaving early the next morning.  The ladies said I could get it made it in one day and preceded to draw a design and measure me.  We went to lunch at Banh My Phuong: on Phan Chau Trinh nearly to the intersection with Hoang Dieu; Anthony Bordain had written that it was the best vietnamese sandwich anywhere.  It was what I would term "street food" so we were a bit suspect, but it was delicious. We wandered off to an outdoor market after lunch, where all the locals buy everything from vegetables, to fish to chicken feet. Back we went to Miss Forget me Not for yet another fitting.  They are perfectionists, and everytime they would mark something up for alteration, someone would ride up on a scooter and take the clothes away to be fixed.  

Back at the hotel we enjoyed the beautiful, tropical pool area and a luxurious massage, complete with the masseurs walking on our backs.

And off into town for another fitting on Eric's 2 suits, sports jacket, pants, shirts and shoes, and my dresses.  We were starting to feel like family there.  We mentioned to them that we wanted to purchase some lanterns, so one of the women walked us over a bridge to a very lively area filled with vendors and many people, until we reached her friend where we purchased our lanterns.  We also mentioned we would like some coffee, so she took care of that for us and told us it could all be put into the clothes box to be shipped.

We had a delicious dinner at Morning Glory, a well known Hoi An restaurant.  And what else?  Back to Miss Forget Me Not for final fittings.  They did not like the way one of Eric's jackets buttoned, so up came the man on the scooter, who took it off to be fixed.  After everything was to their liking, they put it all into a box, 2 people from the post office put it on a very, old scale and told us what the shipping would cost.

Today we left early for Hue.  It was a long ride into the mountains, and the views were beautiful.  We took a walking tour of the Emperor's palace.  More to come...