AmericanLola

We have been home one week now, and believe me, there’s no place like home!We had tickets on the last flight of the day and left the condo in Makati a little earlier than we needed to, but it turns out that if we had left much later, we probably would have missed our flight.

As we were pulling away in the taxi, a motorcycle and two vans with flashing lights and sirens went speeding by. I commented to the driver that it was probably a couple politicians going to lunch, but it was the police going to close off Makati. The little drama/’coup’ was just two blocks from where we were. Turns out a couple fellows who were the object of a judicial hearing there in Makati because they led the take-over of a different hotel in 2002 (?), wandered out of the courthouse and did it again! One brilliant fellow, Trillanes, ran for senate while in prison and won. He was they guy who, when there was an explosion at Glorietta Mall last month (a gas explosion, not a bomb) made the statement that he was sure that this was purposely done by Gloria and her government to rally support and gain more power…Anyway, we were almost slowed down by the latest act of the Philippine political comedy, which would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Great country, amazing natural resources, wonderful people but destructively bad politics.We got to the airport in plenty of time, the flight (Cebu Pacific) was on time and we were thrilled to arrive home and be hugged by Caryl and Marylan and jumped on by the dogs.AmericanLolo’s third week of liquid diet is was much easier to do now that we are home with our blender, but he went to soft foods yesterday. All seems to be be well with his recovery, for which we are very grateful! We both appreciate all of your concern and prayers. Thank you!

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