This warmth wraps around us. Sometimes
comforting and sometimes near on suffocating. Just like we dreamed!.
Enter stage left, a conversation about
the dream of travelling again. Could we take the kids with us? How would we all
cope? Where would we go?
We knew it had to be warm. Simply
because we are allergic to the cold!! And it had to be somewhere for a decent
amount of time, that stripped away what we knew, to give us time to adventure
through our hearts as well as through an unknown location.
And that's how we now find ourselves in
the Philippines with G sweating like a little athlete, fresh of the
playing field, but he's just lying in bed.
Sleep to date has been intermittent but
the kids are adjusting. E was the only one that managed to bend herself into
some kind of position that allowed for slumber in the ridiculous Cathay
airplane seats. G however kept running until he crashed after 23 hours
straight with no rest.
This meant my rather undeveloped biceps had to haul him though the last hour of the flight, customs, around baggage claim while waiting for our misguided bag, into the van then to the hotel bed.
This meant my rather undeveloped biceps had to haul him though the last hour of the flight, customs, around baggage claim while waiting for our misguided bag, into the van then to the hotel bed.
When he woke 5 hours later completely
ropable I questioned our sanity in making this trip but we convinced him to
sleep again and the next wake up started with him calling out 'give me a three
in a row, Johnny got shot by a
ufo. Mum, wanna play with me?. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Our reality here is blessed already. We
came with just one night booked at a hotel, as things hadn't come together for
the apartments we planned to rent.
The day we arrived a friend of a
friends said her sister had a condo available. 2bdrm, guarded complex, lots of
families, a pool and the bonus of a dangerously broken playground which the
children insist is fine. So I watched, slightly nervously to check the platform
didn't give way under the weight of my little athlete as he chased E over
it.
The next morning we all rose at 4am
local time and had a ridiculously early breakfast served with a side of family
games.
The best entertainment so far has been the view out the window.
We observed the 14 complex guards at their meeting this morning in the common
at 5 and felt good about where we were staying.
Our walk to the mall also made us very
grateful for investing time into personal security as we got to see almost the full range of pre-emptive signs Phil Thompson at Protect taught us, all displayed by our shady tail man as we wound our way
down the streets.
Take a deep breath Ma and Nana. We are
fine!, but for your reassurance and ours, we've decided we might just pay the
50 cents and catch a taxi next time.
Our suitcase however has not faired so
well as us and found itself mixed up in the filipino airport system.
After 2 days in the same clothes we
were glad to get the call that it has been found and is ready for collection.
All of these things find Mr Evans and I
looking at each other and laughing. It is almost unbeliveable that this is life
right now.
We will look to find a little more
rhythm with work and the kids next week but for now everything is mabuti!
(good).
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