Those guys are fishing right beside our hotel
See the barge on the river?
Mooo Mooo
Entrance to the Din Ky Resort
the main street in Lai Theiu....subject for a watercolor?
center of Lai Thieu
the open air market
Ah...this looks like a painting~I am sketching this in my mind...
We cross the Saigon River - see the separate lane for motorbikes?
Paige is our director and our tour guide today as she points out points of interest along the way.
Frank and Jacque talk with Zofia.
geeze, we have a lot of luggage - full of toys and audiology equipment!
Ah, nice - plant strong area!
Judy eat pho for breakfast!
While Jim is eating breakfast in Tokyo, we enjoy a Vegetarian breakfast at the Dragon Hotel. We meet Zofia in the lobby, an audiology member of the GFCHL Mobile Mission who just arrives.
Geeze, we have a lot of bags - full of toys and equipment!
A big bus takes us and all our luggage about 20 kilometers north of Saigon. We are released from the sea of helmets to a smaller highway where for the first time I see a separate lane for motorbikes! We buzz along past shops, shops, and more shops. Across a river we turn left past an open air fruit market and go through the center of the town. About 1/2 mile further we turn left onto a red dirt road to find the Din Ky Resort. Men are fishing for lobster, eel, and other sea creatures right beside the entrance. A barge loaded with cut palms floats by. A red cow looks at us as he munches grass by the roadside. This is a lush riverside, overgrown with banana trees, palm trees, and large flat bladed grass.
We are definitely in the country. We are definitely in the tropics! Stone steps through the grass make it tricky to wheel those city slicker suitcases. My room is on the first floor #25! I like it! Our rooms in Saigon were more typical hotel rooms, these feel a little different. Maybe it's the smell or the location, but I know I am in Vietnam as I sit in this room, hot, muggy, with AC that does not work well, tile floors, and a feeling of being far away from home. Out my doorway I see rich green foliage and is that a water buffalo?
Judy and I head to the open air restaurant walking along paths with trenches of water on each side. We follow stone paths, cross wooden bridges to find a seat at a table with hammocks nearby. We order mushrooms, ‘chancery vegetables’ ( not sure what that is, but looks like lotus flower?) and steamed rice. Judy likes watermelon juice and I love coconut milk right out of the shell! We work on the pre/post test questions as we adjust to our new setting.
After lunch we can relax, find the swimming pool, and get settled in for a week by the river. We can walk to the Thuan Center to continue our teaching.
Sorry Jim is not here. He'd be out fishing with those guys!
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