Sabang

I went out of town this last weekend. A group of  8 of us left on Saturday morning to spend some time in Sabang. We didn't spend much money on a pretty view from our hotel because we knew we wouldn't be in it much except to sleep.

This was the little restaurant on the shore close to our hotel room.

 

 

From where I was standing to take the picture above, if I take a 1/4 turn to the left you can see down the little walkway to get to our room.

 

Part way down the walkway.

 

I am now looking back the way I came.

 

Looking from the base of the stairs to our room.

 

Up the stairs and to the right is the room I shared with Jody.

 

 

Our beautiful ocean view from the door.

 

This view made me laugh for some reason.

 

The view from the window of our room.

 

We met up with a friend who has volunteered at Ruel twice in the past. She works at this place as a dive instructor... I believe. : )

This sign cracked me up, I am pretty sure it is an oxymoron.

 

 

This is our friend that we met, Tanya. She is showing off a friend of hers named Becky. Becky likes to be in Tanya's hair.

 

We had a busy Saturday. Right off the bat we found the Garden of Eden while waiting for our lunch to finish cooking.

 

We rented this boat for the day to go island hopping.

 

 

One of our 2 boat guys.

(I am pretty sure that is their official title.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was admiring these small boats not knowing we were going to be in one very soon.

 

Our larger boat wasn't allowed to go into some of the areas we were going to go snorkeling in due to possible damage being done to the reefs.

I never saw any reefs so...

Anyway, here we are pulling up to another island where we ate lunch and boarded the smaller boats to go snorkeling and see an underwater cave.

 

First up was the underwater cave. The blue boat was the boat I was in.

 

We walked through some water and climbed up on this volcanic rock to get to the underwater cave.

Note to self: Do NOT fall on volcanic rock!

 

 

We climbed past this hole which looks down into the cave.

 

Then down the ladder into the cave.

 

I did not allow my camera the privilege of going into the cave as I feared for it's life if it did so. Jody carried it back to shore for me while I entered the cave and experienced the tide moving in.

Miller was in the same boat I was in so he was the subject of several pictures.

If you look behind him to the left you see the shore line, then to his right is where we walked to climb up onto the rocks.

 

This is the rock we climbed onto.

 

 

I love the color of the water. You don't see water that color in Kansas!

 

Miller in the process of getting a sunburn.

 

At this point we were back on the big boat again. Oh, and the snorkeling... didn't go so well.

My mask wouldn't keep the water out very well so I didn't see much.

 

Almost back to shore. At the center of this picture you can see a rust colored roof. Right behind the rust colored roof is a green roof, that is our hotel room.

 

When I got back to the hotel I realized my hands felt dry and sore. When I looked at them they almost looked like they had a rash on them. I think it was from the volcanic rock I climbed on, that or the rope I grabbed while snorkeling. It was gone by the next day.

 

 

That evening we went to White Beach so some of our group could do the Banana Boats. There were so many people at the beach, but it is summer here.

 

A view of the mountains from the beach.

 

The crazy banana boaters.

 

The sunset.

 

Can you see the moon?

 

It's there.

 

This was our drive back to Sabang.

 

Sunday we just hung around White Beach shopping, reading, playing UNO and other such adventures. Then we headed home around 3pm.

 

The end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Foot Loose & Fancy Free...

Well, not quite but Baby S is well on his way to being so.

 

Here he is soaking his last cast so we can take it off.

 

 

Usually he cries while getting his cast taken off but I think he knew something was different this time. He was happy to talk to us while soaking in the tub.

 

"Let's get this done!"

 

Just look at that sweet smile and that double chin.

So kissable!

 

 

After we got him free of the plaster (which took awhile... the plaster was very strong!) we washed him up, dried him off and put his special, new shoes on.

 

This was his opinion of the new shoes. 

 

These shoes/braces will keep his foot from relapsing back. He will wear them 23 hours a day for several months then it will start to taper down and eventually he will be wearing them only at bedtime. It is recommended that children who have clubfoot corrected with casting wear these shoes/braces at night until they are 4 or 5 years old.

I hope he doesn't grow too quickly because they fit his right foot perfectly right now. But you know how baby's are, they tend to grow like weeds. : )

As he grows he will need new shoes. Anybody want to donate towards the cost of them?? Let me know if you are interested and I will hook you up.



A Day At The Zoo

A small zoo reopened here in town so we took advantage of the opportunity and took the kids out for a look. We split the kids into two groups, one went on Tuesday and the other went on Wednesday. Forewarning: Tons of pictures!

Pictures of each group are scattered through out the post but I only went with the second group so I have a few more pictures of them. I borrowed some pictures from Ate Angela and Kuya John for the first groups pictures.

 

Arriving at the zoo.

 

 The fish pond pool with fountain.

 

There aren't very many live animals at this zoo but they have many statues of animals that the kids could climb on. They loved it.

 

Mr R, Miss P, Miss J, Ate Helen

 

Not sure what zoo has a dinosaur... 

 

 Mr J

 

 

Miss J & Miss A

Miss N & Mr R

 

 Miss R, Miss J, and bigger Miss J

 

 Miss M

Miss J x2

 

 Mr J

 Mr W

 

 Miss J, Miss R, Mr P, Miss J, Mr J

 

 Bigger Miss J

 

Miss J, Miss R, Mr P, Miss M

 

Mr J

Now on to the live animals.

Monkeys eating papayas. There were around 4 or so monkeys.

 

Meerkats... I think...  They were eating fish.

 

Sleeping in the 'tree'.

 

We couldn't see the boa constrictor but we did see his dinner. :(

(notice the little chick at the bottom edge of the photo)

 

2 Tigers, Carla and Carlo. This is as much as we saw when I was there. They were hot and lazy.

 

But the day before they were standing up and it looks like they made some noise for the kids.

 

 

 2 ponies

 

Deer

 

Ostrich

 

The kids thought it smelled bad around the ostrich enclosure.

(Notice the ones holding their noses?)

 

One horse

 

Several different kids of birds.

 

And a rock climbing wall! We only let the kids go up 3 hand holds but they thought it was really cool.

Mr J, Miss A, Mr F, Mr R

 

 Miss J, Mr J, Mr W, Miss J

 

 Mr J, Miss R

 

Miss J

 

Miss M eating merienda.

 

 Group 1 on the bridge.

 Mr P

 

 Group 2 on the bridge.

 

 We tried to get several of the kids to put their arm in the mouth of the lion and pretend that they were being bitten but only Miss R was willing to try it. However, she couldn't wipe the smile off her face long enough to pretend she was afraid.

 

 Mr W inspecting the lion's mouth.

 

It was great for the kids to be able to get out and run.

 

 

Do you think they had fun?