career day x 12 with daddy…

They were the fastest 12 days ever… I think Bear would agree. We left EARLY in the morning after staying up getting caught up on LOST (which mom fell asleep in). Kiana would NOT wake up. I had to physically pick her up out of bed and put her in the shower to wake up. It was the funniest thing. She has this sort of zombie like state she gets in when super tired.

As you can see… she picked up where she left off at the club in SLC and then slept on me all the way to San Fran. However, in San Francisco, what we were doing kicked in and she started enjoying the trip. The second picture is at my traditional lunch spot for the trip… Firewood Pizza next to the gate we fly out of.

The flight was… well for lack of better words… LONG. But we watched movies, played games and enjoyed as much as we could.

Being Valentines… we thought the picture with the Diet Coke said it all…

We arrived in Manila at 11:10pm and took the trek to the pick up area and to meet Alson and Myla. Kiana chose to ride.

I’ve found that the best way to not have jet lag is to exercise and force yourself to stay awake that first day. So off to the badminton courts we went as soon as work ended the first day.

Kiana didn’t think my man cave was very cool… so she helped me pick out some new furniture. I didn’t have a night stand, coffee table… or anything. Wala… Jane the Bird Nester Jr. made my room perfect… no frills… but completely functional.

I’ve always loved that the room gets pitch black whether night or day and I crank the air conditioner to a frigid 60 degrees and hide in my comforter. It must have sat well with Bear because she’d get up at noon every day.

Kiana didn’t care for my typical breakfast (boiled eggs, boiled banana and coffee). But she thought it was sure cute that Mom (my Filipino mom :)) would bring me boiled eggs and boiled banana in the mornings.

We’d then eat lunch out, finish work and go play. She especially loved playing sand volleyball with the men. I play twice a week when I’m there with Alson’s church group. It’s a lot of fun and Bear totally held her own… we won nearly every game. 🙂

She also loved hanging out with Amiel (Alson and Myla’s 5 year old son) when I’d go play basketball. They didn’t understand a word each other said… but it was a fun time for Bear because she’d also get to play video games with Myla. Their game of the time is Dynomite on Yahoo and of course they’d Farmville each other (“Myla… can you give me a turkey?” “Sure, can you give me three barrels of wheat.”).

This is Ron and Sheryl’s son Rouri who was a constant buddy of Kiana’s as well. I think he loved showing off his English… which is EXCELLENT… and might have had a small crush on Bear.