4 week vacation

[lovbyts]

Back from a 4 week vacation. I think that is the longest I have taken and it felt good.

3 weeks in the Philippines and 1 week in Cambodia.

Wife wanted to visit Cambodia since she liked Thailand and we though it would be similar. Long story short its not even close and we have no plans on going back for multiple reasons. Wasted week.

Philippines was good. Only had to do a little work on our house there and spent a lot of time visiting the indigenous tribes in the mountains bringing them care packages or Rice, sardines, soap, detergent and some other essentials. We also brought 72 pairs of shoes/sandals for the kids in one of the places we visited as well as a couple large tubs of ice cream and balloons on Valentines day. We made ready prep meals another time and took them to another little village while also bringing treats for the kids.

The adults are grateful and surprised its not attached to religion or politics. We just do it because we can. The kids mostly have fun giving me the guided tour of their homes and neighborhood. The parents are surprised and shocked because they said none of the other tourist who come there (very very few) want anything to do with any of the adults or kids and only pass through because a local girl is dating them. I do prefer the kids over the adults because the men always want me to drink with them or for me to buy them alcohol. I just tell them I dont drink.

Here are a few pictures to share.

Im still now sure if its funny of sad that I was asked MANY times running around the local town with my nieces who are 12 & 13 if one of them was my wife or girlfriend. I guess there are still some arranged marriages that go on there but really??

It was a successful vacation though. I came back broke and lost 13 lbs. I always loose weight on vacation due to being a lot more active.

[lovbyts]

Just a couple more. This is who they kept asking if she was my wife or they would ask her if I was her husband.... Weird and awkward. I would Sort of understand if she at least LOOKED older but she doesn't. She would explain to them I am the husband of her aunt but I dont think it helped much that she wanted to hold hands with me everywhere we went, even when I picked her up from school. I guess she has a soft spot for me since I have known her since she was 4 and of course Im not like other adults there. I dont drink, dont get drunk, dont get angry for no reason or annoyed easily and me being 62 am able to do more than most of adults who are in their 40s there and still like to have fun.

Even when we are not there we will have bags of rice sent up to a few of these areas once in a while by family members.

We are still looking forward to moving within the next 2 years somewhere around there.

[Cylon357]

Nice! Looks like you enjoyed (or are enjoying) your trip.

BTW, on the phone, chrome doesn't load the pics for me. Tapatalk does though

[Mooseman33]

you do good things buddy. So nice to see people really caring. The world is better with you and your family.

love the pics

[lovbyts]

you do good things buddy. So nice to see people really caring. The world is better with you and your family.

love the pics

Thanks Mooseman33

You know you must be doing something right when you got a bit over budget ($5K) doing stuff like this and when you get home you get a $6K bonus from work. lol
My wife was getting pretty worried but I told her it would work out because it always does.