Lovely weekend

Last Saturday was a good day. I had a meeting with the co-editor of the MADs magazine in the early morning. We all drove over, and while I met with my colleague, Nigel took the girls to a playground nearby her house. Afterwards, Nigel & the girls came into the house too, and all the adults had some morning tea, while the two lots of children played together. It was nice to get to know another family a bit better.

In the afternoon, after we had returned, had our lunch and naps, we went to the kids’ museum which is located down by the waterfront. Our girls loved it! They spent 2 hours easily experimenting with all sorts of things. Emily found the crawl through mouth/throat a bit scary, Zoe loved the fire-truck with the real lights!



As evening approached, we had dinner oustside in our favourite area by the waterfront, and enjoyed watching the sunset against the buildings in Manila Bay. The weather is lovely at this time of year – doesn’t quite make it up to 30, and with a bit of a breeze, it’s very comfortable! We relaxed in the conversation with the waitress, who doubled as a temporary nanny for the girls. As is often the case in restaurants, the girls were well-entertained by the staff, and got to look in the kitchen etc.

As we get to know our way around, and learn about more things to do, we are feeling much more comfortable in our new city.