For those of you who know me (!), I am technologically challenged. I wrote this post yesterday, and while trying to reformat the pictures, I deleted the post. Dang.
Here I go again…
Before we found our villa apartment, we stayed in The Aurora Hotel, complete with yummy breakfasts and a roof-top pool. Now we have been in our 2 bedroom/2 bath first floor apartment for a few weeks. There is a pool, but it cannot be used until the new dock? riverfront? is rebuilt (we are told by the end of September). We do love this apartment, which is not that much smaller than our Alaskan home. We have a great view of the Saigon River, lots of light, a quiet end of street space, and hardly anyone lives in this 6 level villa: on level 3 is a 4 person family from Minnesota and on levels 4-6 lives the Vietnamese owner, the media CEO of “Cattiemsa.”
The villa has a maid staff (Vui cleans our floors and counters MWF and washes bedding once per week), and the owner employs security guards, drivers, maintenance, and a manager, who at some point seem to live in the sub-basement.
Life here is not busy, a change from Anchorage, where we each are used to many and various activities. Once we are home by 4:30, we hunker down, read, email, eat, and go to bed early.
As with all else on this blog, I will add to home life ideas later. Now I just want to share some pictures of where we hang our hats.
The Aurora
View from Hotel Aurora 
River view of our Villa Apartment 
View of river from our apartment 
Front steps (Scout’s room is window on right) 
West view of Villa 
Our doorway entrance! 
Neighbor is richest man in Saigon! 
Kitchen 
View from livingroom 
Moving in 
Living room
A Year in Vietnam 