One More Villa

Last year a bunch of our friends who started in the Foreign Service with us came to visit us in Indonesia. Some of them spent a few days in Jakarta, but then we all met up in Bali for about 5 days. (This was the same group we met up with in China in the fall of 2007.) We rented a really nice villa which slept 8 of us, and having our own pool and kitchen was really nice. We never did any blog entry about that trip, but here are some pictures.

We wanted to do one last reunion in Southeast Asia before we all head back to DC or onto our next assignments. We all decided Phuket, Thailand would be perfect: it's centrally located to all of us, not an expensive vacation, and has beaches and fun activities.

We leave tomorrow to spend 9 nights in Phuket, and we recruited a couple friends from Jakarta this time. All in all we have 14 people total staying at the villa, although some are coming the first half of the week, and some the second half. We decided - along with another couple - to stay the whole time. We'll truly get to relax as well as scuba dive and see some of the islands off the coast. The place we're staying looks amazing; it is 4 stories and has a rooftop pool! We'll post some pics when we are back.