Sipalay

So this the end of June Focus has sent over a young family from Utah for 8 weeks. The husband, Sam, is to help train Ryan a little further and teach him some tricks. It's just been so wonderful to have them here, they are renting a house just down the street from us which is perfect. They have 2 kids, Alex who is 6 and Meadow who is 3 and they play so well with my kids. Josie enrolled them in school with Brayden and so now Brayden has friends to ride to school with! Sometimes Josie will pick him up and drop him off for me and then it just hits me how fast they grow up. I'll ask for a kiss before he jumps into the car and he'll just give me his forehead and then off he goes.

The other weekend we thought that we would show off some of the beautiful white beaches of the Philippines so we packed up the car and headed to Punta Bulata Resort just out of Sipalay. It's such a beautiful drive along the coastline with the green mountains, sugar cane and rice fields on the other side. It's rainy season now so everything is growing and so green. Unfortunately with it being rainy season we got hit hard. There was a huge storm while we were there and even massages couldn't get us to stay any longer. We decided to head back home only after one night.

On the way home we found that with the storm the previous night there had been some damages made to the road. There were little mudslides all along the side of the roads, some pretty big boulders and huge puddles. Finally we had to turn around and go back to the resort because one part of the road had been taken out by a huge mudslide. It uprooted a tree or two that were covering the road, there was a boy walking across that sunk almost to his waist in the mud! It was quite the adventure. Fortunately we were able to make it home safe and sound even passing a cock fight on the way!