Ahoy Matey

This year it seems the kids have been on a zillion field trips. I don't know if it's just that they really are going on so many or if it's just the normal amount x3!?
Both Brayden and Sydney got to ride in a Jeepney while Madison rode in a tricicad. For clarification a Jeepney is what our local bus system is like in Canada although there are no designated stops so you just wave and the jeepney aggresively swerves over to you and you hop in. The same goes for getting off, you tell him you want out and he pulls over to the side of the road and off you go. A tricicad is bicycle with a side car for hire. You pay 5 peso's/km and the guy drives you where you need to go. I always feel sorry for the tricicad drivers biking around in the heat all day long but that quickly disappears when I get stuck in my car behind one of them slowly peddling down the middle of the one lane traffic holding everyone up.

The week after the jeepney rides both Brayden and Sydney went to the pier for a tour of one of the Weesam Fast Craft Ferry's (it's transportation month). Brayden's class didn't need a parent with the child so I wasn't able to get any snaps of him and his classmates but Sydney's class required one parent/guardian for each child so off we went. We waited for the boat to arrive and watched everyone unload that was coming from the Panay, the Island north of us. After it was cleared out the class boarded the boat. We just walked around, sat in the chairs, took brilliant pictures of ourselves and got off. We then watched, in the blistering heat, everyone load on for the return trip to Iloilo, Panay and waved as the boat took off again.

Sydney has been on her fair share of boats with all the traveling we've been able to do so when Teacher Tina asked what the kids would rather ride in; a jeepney or a ferry, Sydney was the only voice to say jeepney. All her classmates chose the ferry. I guess I should start taking the kids on more jeepney rides and less boats!