A weekend GETaway.

Complete with flowers in the toilet bowl, Paradise Beach&Resort proved its name true once again...Krys picked us up just before 10 am friday and we met up with the rest of her family (Matt, and their two girls, Josie and Jessica), Lynn and Gary, and the filipinas at the fairy to take us across the channel to Samal Island. One of the 'white' girls (i put white in quotations because i'm nice and blACk/red after falling asleep in the sun) needed to room with the filipinas, so I was fortunate enough to be placed in their room. [so, it kind of sounds like we're somewhat segregated from the filipinas, but it's just that we're rooming with our friends, right, and they're all more comfortable with eachother, and we all know us whities better, with the exception of me, naturally, i'm trying my bESt to become a flip :P]

These were my roommates for the night. From left to right is Ate Ermie, Ate Estefanie, Ate Mayflor (my supervisor), and Ate Ana (who's currently on mat leave) SUch great, great girls to hang out with..
and here are the people that RUN the SHOW here, midwives and their husbands, my teachers and mentors from left to right are Krys and Matt McNeil, a friend of Josie, Josie, and Gary and Lynn Jones (whose daughter completed the program I'm currently a few years ago, they came over 7 years ago and have been missionaries here ever since).

hahah...yeeeee, ROOM SERVICE! :D It was a pretty sweet deal because our school financed the whole trip!

..the filipinas sure know how use the phone in our room to call down to room service, our breakfast display was quite impressive.

It's no pina colada..but fresh coco "buko" juice is probably my favourite thing to get ANYwhere in Davao.