off and running

We've arrived and I'm full of terribly wise things to say - ha, not really.  Later I'll share my smarts but right now I'm perched on the edge of a bed, been awake since about 2am here, and now it's 6:04am. 

Ever wonder what happens when you take an 11 year old boy, fill him with excitement, keep him up until 2am, feed him a big bag of goldfish crackers, a bottle of Dr. Pepper, then put him on a plane?  I just gotta say thanks to Eva airline for having more than enough vomit bags. 

Here are few pics that we've taken, more to come, and I'll try to get video of the insane comedy that they call driving.

The following are from our layover in Taiwan.

Seth, the vomit victim, feeling much better.  This is what we had for breakfast at the Taipei airport at about 7am.  Well, except for Man, he had a ham sandwich.  

At the Taipei airport there was an orchid show going on.  See the bird? the leopard?  the flower - well that's kinda easy.

Our wonderful, fully stocked, 747-400 plane.  I really liked flying EVA- highly recommend them.

Then we arrived in Manilla and boy what fun that was!  Yo had a heavy case of insta sweat, dripping, running sweat, cleaned those toxins right out.  It was a 'feels like' 107 degree day. 

Needing some food, and a way to spend the evening, we headed for Asia's biggest mall.  Named The Mall of Asia.  It is huge.  Covers acres, I had no desire to see it all.

Funny thing is you can get married in a group ceremony at the Mall of Asia.  How odd is that?

The Mall has a ferris wheel, and a zip line that shoots out of the white building.

What I wanted for dinner ( i love spam), we had pizza instead.  I was not happy.  

The Mall has an ice rink, with fake snow.  Of course the boys wanted to skate, and of course I said 'no, that looks dangerous!'  Kidding about the danger, but we did not skate.  

We fly from Manila to Caticlan, then take a boat to Boracay this afternoon.

Love to all.