Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Christmas in the Tropics

It has definitely been a strange experience to have our Christmas in the hot and tropical climate of the Philippines... At about 85 F (28 C or so) and humidity, it is hard to feel like it's Christmas, even for me being from California! But it also gives neat opportunity to vacation in summer-ish weather to celebrate the holidays.
During Christmas time we were able to take a 6 day vacation to the island of Mindora, where we stayed on at Puerto Galera. We had an awesome time there and the kids did really well. Kaden LOVED to play in the ocean with the waves breaking right on shore. He would sit and wait for the water to rush up to him when a wave came, and then go back down afterwards. He thought it was great. Brenna did really well too, and had a great little "baby-sized" tent to sleep on at the beach (thanks to Aunt Debbie for that wonderful gift!).
We miss you all back home, especially in this season when we usually are visiting family and friends, but are slowly making our own family "way of doing things" here which is definitely bringing us closer together.

And finally, here is the link to view our pictures from the trip!!


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