New Sights to See
We have discovered even more new places near our home in Hanoi after being invited to a member's home for lunch on Monday this week. She and her family live in Ocean Park 2, which is a ginormous housing development only 8-9 miles away from us. It's as un-Hanoi-like as you can get, with wide streets and large apartments and green grass and grandiose areas designed after different cities or countries of the world. Our 2 native sister missionaries kept saying how they want to live there, and all the missionaries (us included) were gushing over how clean and nice of a place it is. One of the next things we noticed was how empty it was. We wonder how many people actually live there; it definitely is not at capacity, and the shops are not at all busy. They build elaborate structures... This is the main floor of Xuyen's home. It is at least twice as wide as a normal Vietnamese home, and is 5 stories high. With glass doors... She fixed us pho for lunch; the "bread" in th...