How we live

This is our apartment. It is on the fourth floor, and it is a nice and good sized home, conveniently located in the town of Vientiane, the capital of Lao PDR. There are many restaurants and shops within a short walking distance. The landlord is fantastic and takes good care of their property. If something needs to be fixed they are there almost immediately. It is a serviced apartment, so there are two wonderful women who come and clean three days per week and change our sheets once per week. We wash our clothing and towels, cook when we do not eat out, and wash the dishes. The helpers wash the dishes if we have left them in the sink, so we make sure they are all clean before they come. They do not need more work than they already have.

It is convenient that the Deseret International Charities' (DIC, the church owned NGO we are known as here) office is on the third floor right below our apartment. 

Our apartment is on the top floor.

The top corner is our home.

Parking area underneath the building. There is  always a security guard at the opposite end from the camera.

We even have a small koi pool behind the security guard.

The stairwell up to our floor. These are great for cardio workouts. 

I love the tiles in the hallway on our floor.

Looking through the front door into our apartment.

The living area.

Kitchen/dining

Office area and the front door.

Kitchen looking towards the secondary bathroom. The kitchen does not have hot water, so we scrub the dishes well with lots of soap and water. The blue dome on the counter top is a water purifier. The water here contains a lot of chlorine, so it is a good idea to use one of these for drinking. 

Secondary bathroom with a wet shower. Turning on the shower makes a big part of the bathroom very wet. The sink only has cold water, but the shower has a water heater on the wall.

Balcony off the kitchen. It is where we hang our laundry to dry.

Same balcony. This is looking out at the driveway you see in the first couple of pictures.

Our bedroom. There is a second balcony behind the curtains.

The bed after our helpers have put on fresh sheets. This is a weekly battle 😂 They like to put the duvet so that the long end is at the feet.

We prefer to have our rear ends covered when we sleep, so we turn the duvet around - every week. They probably wonder what is wrong with the strange foreigners 😆

Here are our kind friends who take such good care of our home 💗

Our master bathroom.

I do not believe the owners of our building are Christian, but they have decorated for Christmas  💗 

It looks very cute 😊

Christmas tree!

They even put lights in the bushes along the driveway 😍

I wonder if they intentionally paired the song with the sign 😂

A toe tapping food delivery advertisement in our elevator 🎵