My entries for RWB

My dear twin BiTi and fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si, art critic and Forum friends,

first, thanks again BiTi and Caro for thinking that my opening act for Red, White and Blue was cute. Your compliment sounded like music to my ears.
It looks like my intention to impress people by holding a cookbook backfired. I will tell Chuong that it was all his fault. When I told him that I wanted to pose with some mi\ goi' to be true to myself as a cook, he sounded a bit puzzled "Mom, why do you want to hold those?...well, ok, whatever Mom, it is your picture". That convinced me to find a cookbook to pose with, and the red one I had forgotten that it ever existed, was picked simply because it went nicely with my tablier :-).
 
Thanks to BiTi, this theme turned out to be lots of fun for me ( and it is also looking like it will be a success since Cao Tua^'n came out of hiding to submit an entry :-)).
 It allowed me to notice things that I did not notice before, even though I usually notice lots of things when I walk on the streets, instead of paying attention to where I need to go to. (The Cool Gang, beware when you come to visit NYC this Fall, make sure that you all hold on to Quang's shirt, if you don't want to end up walking the streets of Long Island City with me).

All of the sudden, I saw a lot of red and white and blue everywhere I went.  Even Mai Han who normally disapproved of my bad habit of taking pictures wherever I went, joined in the search and pointed out to me a few things that were red, white and blue. Also, it was handy that it was cold in Bruxelles, Bruges and Amsterdam, and Mai Han brought her big red sweatshirt, which she wore almost everyday, and thus became a very reluctant model sometimes.

I took so much pictures, but do not worry, I won't send them all in...at once. As appetizers, here are three collages of all the red, white and blue things I saw in Bruxelles, Bruges and Amsterdam (I am having some technical problems  sending all 3 collages at the same time, so the collages for Bruges and Amsterdam will be sent separately).
A warning:  you may have a hard time finding the red or white or blue items, but that's part of the game :-). A magnifying glass may be handy.
Oh, and another thing, I took it that the blue sky could be counted as something blue since my twin did not say that we could not. I did not cheat, didn't I? 
Good night and have a good weekend everyone
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MC