Pregnant women everywhere!

We went to Big C supermarket yesterday, and I noticed something again that I remember noticing when I first came to Vietnam: there are a lot of pregnant women everywhere you look! I'm sure there were at least 20 pregnant women that I saw. I hardly remember ever seeing anyone pregnant in Canada or the US... Where do all the pregnant women go in the West? Are they hiding at home, always working in the office, or just wear clothes so you don't notice? Maybe it's just that in Canada I wasn't really exposed to as many people out in public. Mostly it is just: drive to work, sit in the office, drive home. Here in Vietnam everyone is outside eating on the streets every day, and of course I have a talking machine wife that likes to talk with everyone.

Anyways, after our shopping was finished, Thao noticed that they had a special promotion where you could win cash prizes or even a laptop. Based on our shopping receipt, we got 3 tickets to scan at the computer booth, which had a display like a slot machine. Thao was so happy when she won some money!! She won 10,000 dong... That's about 50 cents. So of course she told me to wait outside while she went in and got something quick. I tried to tell her that it was not worth it because the lines were so long, but she wanted to get her prize...

So I waited... And then I waited. And then I waited some more. It must have been at least 30 minutes... When she finally did come back, she told me that the first time she got something small and went to the cashier but she said "no, sorry, it has to be exactly 10,000 dong"... so Thao went searching again and came back with something worth 9,000 dong. "no, I can't give any money back, it has to be 10,000 dong." So of course Thao said "I don't care, you can keep the extra money!" but the reply was "no sorry, 10,000 dong..." Most people would give up at this point, because the store was very busy and crowded and long lines at the checkout. But Thao went running around the whooooole store searching for something that was exactly 10,000 dong so she could get her prize! So finally she found 4 yoghurts x 2,500 dong each! Heheheh good job hunny!