Sunday, December 12, 2010

Our early Christmas present!

This year for Christmas, Kyle's mom and step-dad took us back to Kyle's mission in the Philippines!!! We had a blast and we are so grateful for his family's kindness in taking us back there!! Between the long flights, our car breaking down, his step-dad getting sick we had the good times of talking with THEE nicest people in the world, seeing all the CUTE kids and spending time with the people that Kyle had taught and baptized. We all knew it was going to be an adventure but it will definitely be an adventure we will never forget...EVER!! We had a TON of pictures that would never all fit in this post so it will just be some of the highlights of our trip!

To start off, we took one out of our two LONG flights!! We were all a little nervous because the day we were supposed to fly out it was the big blizzard warning. Luckily, it wasn't as bad as everyone was thinking so our flight only got delayed about an hour and a half. Which wasn't bad but only left us a few minutes to catch our connecting flight from LAX to Korea. We ran our butts off but we made it!!!






We finally made it to the Philippines! We saw A LOT of cool/different things!!

There were fruit/snack stands EVERYWHERE , with the BEST mangos!! Yumm!!!

All of the people would LOVE having their pictures taken. They all would put their hands up to their faces too!! It was awesome!

We ate a lot at different chicken houses! They would make "pecho." It was basically just some barbequed chicken, but it was all freshly made and delicious!


Kyle had a great time reminiscing on his mission days with a couple families we visited! It was so fun to see him so excited to get back there and start talking with all the people! I loved it!


The Pioquinto family had us over for a traditional Filipino meal! It was delicious!!

We saw a lot of beautiful waterfalls and beaches!

The cute kids..

(They sang Christmas carols and danced to Justin Beiber...It was awesome!!)


I absolutely LOVED this trip!!! It was a great experience and it made me realize how much we really do have!! I will never forget it!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad you didn't forget you had a blog! :0) How neat was that! The people look so nice and their all tiny too.. looks like an amazing trip! Glad his parents were kind enough to take you guys~ :0) hope all is well!!!

JeniandAustinHoffmann said...

Linds!! How awesome, what a fun trip. Looks like you guys had a blast. You are so cute, I miss you. I hope you and Kyle have a great Christmas. Hope you're loving your job too. I miss working with you.

LindsMcConk said...

Wow that's so amazing! What a great Christmas present!