Thought we’d give a quick visual tour of the places we’ll be calling home for the next few months.
Places? Plural? You ask.
While Marie—Rescue’s fearless leader—is away for three months in Canada, we’re going to be living in her home during the week, and then in the apartment that Rescue rents in Phnom Penh for the weekends. It’s a pretty good deal...actually we're quite spoiled in both places. Spending our weeks on-site saves us a nasty hour (or more) commute to and from Rescue. Plus, it’ll be great to be closer to the kids and to have the option of spending a few evenings with them.
Both are really great places...clean, 2 bedrooms (perfect for visitors...hint, hint), and have more than enough amenities to be really comfortable. The apartment in the city is close to the action—the markets, the restaurants, our friends, church. But it’s a little cooler, quieter and calmer out at the orphanage, and we’ve been told the stars you’ll see at night are unbelievable! There is one thing, however, out there that makes this my favourite...
And so, here they are: Mi casa es su casa!!...I have no idea how you say that in Khmer?
Places? Plural? You ask.
While Marie—Rescue’s fearless leader—is away for three months in Canada, we’re going to be living in her home during the week, and then in the apartment that Rescue rents in Phnom Penh for the weekends. It’s a pretty good deal...actually we're quite spoiled in both places. Spending our weeks on-site saves us a nasty hour (or more) commute to and from Rescue. Plus, it’ll be great to be closer to the kids and to have the option of spending a few evenings with them.
Both are really great places...clean, 2 bedrooms (perfect for visitors...hint, hint), and have more than enough amenities to be really comfortable. The apartment in the city is close to the action—the markets, the restaurants, our friends, church. But it’s a little cooler, quieter and calmer out at the orphanage, and we’ve been told the stars you’ll see at night are unbelievable! There is one thing, however, out there that makes this my favourite...
And so, here they are: Mi casa es su casa!!...I have no idea how you say that in Khmer?
The Apartment - Our landlords, a wonderful Cambodian-American couple and their two kids, live below us. They're really great people that have taken us under their wing and brought us along on walks around town, to Christmas parties, and invited us to down for dinner. We have neighbours that listen to karaoke around the clock. A guard dog named "Chomper". And a street that is currently going through a month-long face lift.
When you climb the side staircase and come inside, you look straight ahead and see this (Above)...you look to the left, you see this (Below)
(See? Look at us living the good life: A coffee maker. A washing machine. Could we ask for more?)
...and a happy husband talking with his mom! Life is good here.
But it's also good here: Marie's home at Rescue. 
Below: Meet Toby & Susie...the soon-to-be proud parents of a litter of retriever puppies!
And the best for last. My favourite thing about this place is the veranda...easily the best place to write, read, or eat corn flakes.
*Any encouraging pressure given from readers to these two fine women in favour of them coming out here would be greatly appreciated :) And even if they won't come, help make sure our dads do!
3 comments:
Val? You HAVE to go. If John can't get time off work, take a friend. Or a second cousin.
So I say "dtiw kah dtiw", which is Khmer for.....
I hope that you are soon going to post a khmer/canajun dictionary so that we lurkers know what you poster are talking about. To you lucky Moms, Go, go, go....
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