We are in the Philippines!
We have arrived. We landed in the Philippines on May 1st! I think it took 27 hours of travel to get here. We had 10 bags ( 5 of those were huge chests), and 5 carry on bags, plus all of our personal items. Oh, and the Dog!! When we got to the airport we realized we had not planned on how do we carry all this stuff! Emelyn was in her stroller too. So, someone had to push her. I don't know how we did it, but we did! Next time we travel with that many bags, our kids will probably be much older and can help a lot more!!
We have found a home to live in while we study the language here. It is a nice home and we are thankful to be here. The first thing we did was install our air conditioners in the bed rooms. We are sooo glad we did. We only turn them on when we are sleeping. We would not get a good night of sleep if we did not have these. Very thankful for these. We recently got a lot of our furniture and water heater for the shower. It feels good to have some furniture in our home. There is still a long way to go, to get our home completely set up, but I can see progress. The girls have made a new friend who lives just a few houses up the street. She comes over every day to play. The first day we met her, when it was time for us to eat dinner, it was hard to tell her she had to come back tomorrow. After she finally left, she came over about 4 times that evening. Even once the girls were in bed. LOL. She is very extroverted. Kaylie and Abigael love playing with. We are happy that they have found a friend.Kris and I started language school this week. It has been fine, but it will be very difficult to learn a language. I feel very lost sometimes, and even when I am following, I forget it all as soon as we go home. We need to get in a good routine for studying once we are home.
I want to be more active in my blogging now that I am here and far from many people that I love so very much. I'm hoping this will help you get a little piece of what our new home is like. Maybe even making you all want to visit!! More post to come....and more pictures!
