We have learned more about what the rainy season is like. Many people have asked us about weather-it hasn't been as hot here as in Greenville recently. Here in the 80s and 90s but most of the time there is some breeze. We have had sunny weather most days until this week. When a typhoon is nearby in the ocean it dumps rain-not necessarily continuous and the sky is gray. We do have thunder and lightning sometimes but not always (like in the south in the summertime).
On Tuesday the kids wanted to go swimming but it was raining-there was no thunder and lightning so we went anyway. They thought that was great fun.
We have been home a fair amount, just letting them play. School starts for the boys next week-Wednesday is Open House and Thursday is their first day. They are excited, which I am glad for. I love where they are going to be and am so glad that we have such a great place to send them while we are here. However I am always sad to see the unstructured, less scheduled time of summer come to an end-especially when this one has been so crazy.
Scott and Ryan have built a huge Lego city in the playroom. They have enjoyed the new dress up clothes that I brought along in our luggage. We finished reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and are looking forward to watching the movie when our ocean container arrives. We have also started reading The Magician's Nephew.
Wednesday we went to visit/meet the family of a guy that Greg works with. They have been in Manila since February and live in our neighborhood. They have a 2 year old and a 3 year old and a baby who is 2 weeks old. It was fun for the kids to have some other children to play with and Joanna and I had a nice visit.
Our neighbors came back this week-they had been home to the US to visit. They have an Ashley who is 6 and two boys ages 8 and 9-God has provided playmates right next door! They also go to school at Brent. We're hoping to have them over to swim next week before school starts. We were out swimming last night after dinner and laughed that they were looking over the wall between our houses to talk to us. This was really funny to me and Greg because Scott and Ryan did this to our neighbors in Greenville to the point that we wondered if they were bothered by it.
On Friday Greg was home and I did some errands by myself, took the boys to get haircuts and I got one myself. In the afternoon while Greg was making a business call with someone in Greenville, the kids and I went out and found 2 of the parks in our neighborhood. Each have some play equipment-one has the neighborhood pool nearby and some tennis courts. The other has a small grocery store, covered basketball courts, and a large field with soccer goals on it. The boys even met 2 other little boys to play hide and seek and tag with.
Today we spent the morning at home, went to the mall to do a couple of errands and rode the roller coaster again and a 2 story carousel-Greg was up on the next level of the mall waving to us riding in the upstairs part of the carousel. It has rained off and on but has been a nice weekend.
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