A wedding in the Philippines

We’re in the Philippines for a wedding this week. For us, this is a faraway destination. For Amy (my husband’s sister) and her fiance Pedro, it’s home.

We flew from Denver to Salt Lake City to Tokyo to Manila to Dumaguete, a small island, on Friday. Total travel time = 34 hours. Since we arrived, we’ve gone scuba diving (our first time!) at a worldclass location, oohed and ahhhed at dolphins swimming around our boat, played on a sandbar, been to the emergency room (I’m OK now!) and had chunks of pork fly at us at the local market.

There will be plenty more pictures and stories to come. Still up: the bachelorette party tonight; a Filipino buffet feast, complete with 15 men in drag (which is not part of the Filipino theme, I should add); snorkeling; a sunset wedding; a night in Manila and another long commute home.