Saturday, March 19, 2016

Day 9 Church then heading back to Bangued

Stayed in "The Elder's" house. Not sure of his name, but he is the pastor to the small church in Malapaao, and he helped translate for us yesterday.  Nice man, nice house.  Services were in their small church still under construction.  They are very proud of it and it will look very nice once it's finished.

We slept upstairs, the boys downstairs and the girls next door.  In front
of the house in the dining room.

After church we had a traditional Filipino "budu fight" lunch.  Everyone had great fun eating with their fingers.  The family dogs waited patiently until we were done.


Graye, our leader.




















After lunch and goodbyes it was back into the Jeepney for the 4 hour drive back to Bangued.  We got stuck, again.  This time no truck came around, so we had to dig and dig, jack up the rear wheels, and put rocks under the tires.  Five times....it finally worked.


Back at Bangued, we had a choice go to a local river to swim and eat dinner with our hosts, or McDonalds.  Sorry, it was unanimous......McDonalds.  Hamburgers, fries and ice cream just seems the "right" thing to eat after the last few days of bumping around in the Jeepney and sleeping on the floor, no showers and challenging toilet usage.  Well, not really McDonalds, we went across the street to Jollibee's.  The Filipino equivalent.  (McDonalds was too busy and we wanted to compare).  We weren't disappointed!


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