Ok, this is everyday El Nido too

Each day we tried to make it to some water, beach delightfulness. I think we were successful. If we weren’t touring tourist style. We’re spoiled beyond belief. Happy we can bribe the girls to walk long distances with promises of tricycle rides home. Or ice cream. There’s always ice cream 🙂 The water continued to […]

The everyday El Nido

Don’t want to forget the not so perfect days…

We said goodbye to our wonderful Odette, Lylou and family, and our village living. We’ll miss the kind people, the playful kids and the neighborhood feel. But we’re off to the tourist paradise (we’re told) of El Nido. We were to catch a 10am van and hauled our things up the mud trail to the […]

Postcard Pretty

If only the pictures could do it justice. Maybe if I took as many pictures or did as long of a photo shoot as our boat mates…but I think you can get the gist of the beauty we were surrounded by all day. The water was incredible. That emerald azul that comes with pristinely clear […]

Belated post

Wrote this when we were without the internet and whoops! Forgot to post when we had it again: 1 week in and the girls are taking their malaria pills like champs (didn’t even need to follow them with chocolate!), took their first cold showers with reasonable amounts of complaint…minimal, well, it sounded minimal, Chad assisted […]

“It’s like an aquarium in your face!”

Yes, that’s a direct quote from Chad. 🙂 We played tourist again and took an island hopping tour out in Honda Bay! It was our first time actually getting in the ocean (I know, really?!) but boy was it worth the wait. We also scored by getting on a tour with a group of Filipino-Canadian […]

The girls get haircuts!

We went wandering the streets of Puerto Princesa and we have been talking nearly daily of cutting all this hair off. Marion has been pushing for weeks to shave her hair off “like Dad!” And her focus has only intensified. So when we saw a little salon with $1 haircuts…we’ll, that seemed about he right […]

A day at home

I think we might be the luckiest folk around. Yes we are our in the boonies a bit, but there happens to be a hotel down the road less than a five minute walk…with a pool! We were talking about what made the hotel less nice than any in Hawaii, because it was really nice, […]

We’re tourists!!

Ok, obviously we’ve been tourists from the get go, but we did our first “here, take our money and lead us around like children. Tell us where to go and where to sit and provide us information – tidbits on history, culture, geology and ecology- and then also provide our food please”. And Salamat’po! Yes! […]

Pros and Cons of idyllic/rustic living

Honestly it’s beautiful and I’m so happy to have this experience, it’s lush and green and it feels truly far from how we live at home. We’re learning more bits of Tagalog and the girls are thrilled to have little people around. The air feels clean and it’s quiet (except the pigs at feeding time […]