man ive got some caatching up too do

so here it goes we traveled back from dumagety after all the diving and swimming and lazing around being a bum
my first chance of holiday before the big fat adventure of a year ahead
and what had felt like a ridiculously long journey it was nothing compared to the way back
rain forced us off the beaten track and then more rain forced off the off beaten track and onto even more off beaten track
catch my dirft
basically all i can say for the first three hours of that journey
is thank god for four wheel drive
i bounced more times than a determined fat kid on a trampoline trying to get to the top shelf cookie jar

so yeah 9 hours travelling through villages set into the mountains full of kids playing and small sari sari stores out into the road with stalls selling everything from old shoes to dried fish
the kids would stop and watch the cars go passed amazed by a white face and as i looked back into the wing mirror i could see there frantic waves and excitement
9 hours led us too a town where we could stop for food only an hour and a half away from baccolod the place i am now calling home.

we ate then set off all holding our butt cheeks trying to prepare them for yet more sitting down
we set off and it was dark by now and the Philippines really comes to life at night there was people spilling onto the streets wandering through the roadside stalls and shops. dogs darted around and one darted towards the car growling wildly and our driver just ploughed straight through it which left me open mouthed and my pants slightly soiled he looked round and me aand laughed seeing how shaken i was bee this and simply said "its okay he was like gnarrrrr" at this point he made hand movements and pretended to be a rabid dog i smiled and said okay my heart still beating fast and not being able to look at the driver in the same way for the next hour and a half

finally we made it back to baccolod and set into hour hotel rested for the week ahead and what a week it will be