Villa Satori
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| Pool with the guesthouse |
When we first arrived at our house, Villa Satori, we really liked it. Now that we have been here for a couple of weeks, we have learned to love it. First and foremost, I was spot on in wanting a house we could close up. The mosquitoes aren't awful, in fact they aren't bad at all and really only come out around 5pm for a couple of hours. However, if there is one mosquito within 1 mile of Owen, pretty soon it will be sucking his sweet blood and leaving him with massive welts. After he got about 3 bites and we had several nights of disrupted sleep due to them, we learned to put up the mosquito net over the bed the boys sleep in (and I join them at some point in the night). This, along with closing up the house around 5, has worked great. We turn on the AC in just the boys' bedroom for a couple of hours and by bedtime it is all ready for us. Some other things we love about our house are that it has an oven (very rare here), it is quiet, we have a coconut stand across the lane, the view is spectacular, the pool is deep enough for jumping and diving, $15 massages are just a 5 minute walk away, we are at the beginning of a path that takes you on an epic adventure through the rice paddies and rainforest with an organic cafe along the way, town is only a 10 minute walk away and we seem to have one of the best cooks in town. Our house is also set up and decorated to western standards which we may take for granted and probably haven't learned yet all that that means in a good way for us. The house has beautiful statues throughout the garden and interior.
When we first arrived at our house, Villa Satori, we really liked it. Now that we have been here for a couple of weeks, we have learned to love it. First and foremost, I was spot on in wanting a house we could close up. The mosquitoes aren't awful, in fact they aren't bad at all and really only come out around 5pm for a couple of hours. However, if there is one mosquito within 1 mile of Owen, pretty soon it will be sucking his sweet blood and leaving him with massive welts. After he got about 3 bites and we had several nights of disrupted sleep due to them, we learned to put up the mosquito net over the bed the boys sleep in (and I join them at some point in the night). This, along with closing up the house around 5, has worked great. We turn on the AC in just the boys' bedroom for a couple of hours and by bedtime it is all ready for us. Some other things we love about our house are that it has an oven (very rare here), it is quiet, we have a coconut stand across the lane, the view is spectacular, the pool is deep enough for jumping and diving, $15 massages are just a 5 minute walk away, we are at the beginning of a path that takes you on an epic adventure through the rice paddies and rainforest with an organic cafe along the way, town is only a 10 minute walk away and we seem to have one of the best cooks in town. Our house is also set up and decorated to western standards which we may take for granted and probably haven't learned yet all that that means in a good way for us. The house has beautiful statues throughout the garden and interior. 
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