Our 2nd weekend in the house

July 22nd-24th

Greg got a haircut on Friday at a barbershop recommended by someone at his office and looked very normal when he came home.

Saturday morning we went up North of where we live to a market called Tiendisitas-open air but covered with clothes, pets for sale, furniture, and lots of other things.  It was interesting but what the kids really enjoyed was the place across the street called Fun Ranch.  They had a great time riding rides:
Space Quest where you ride in a car and shoot lasers at aliens and things
riding go carts-Ashley rode with Greg and wore a pink helmet
bumper boats
a carousel
tea cups-Ashley and I rode that one-a miniature version of the ride a Disney-we both loved it
airplanes that you went up and down in
and my favorite to watch-Scott inside an enormous beach ball that floated on the water of the bumper boat pool-he ran and fell down and tried to stand up and fell down-it would be a great way for kids to get out extra energy and he had fun too

After that we went to Eastwood-a very high end mall.  We walked around a little inside, saw their beautiful fountains outside and ate an early dinner at a pirate themed Italian restaurant.  It was a fun day.

On Sunday we went to church here for the first time at CCF-Christ's Commission Fellowship.  They have small groups that meet during the week so we just went to the service.  The preaching was very good.  The kids all seemed to enjoy their classes and not even Ashley was upset about being left somewhere new.  We have some others that we'd like to visit but this was a very good first church visit.  We knew about them because I found a Bible Study Fellowship class (http://www.bsfinternational.org/) here in Manila that meets at that church.  Ashley and I are planning to go to BSF when they start in August-it's a group that I was apart of a night class in Greenville when I was teaching school and at the daytime class they have a wonderful study, not just nursery, for preschoolers.  Ashley will do a lesson right along with me each week-with homework and everything.