Family time!!!

We have been making Saturday our family fun day and are enjoying finding kid-friendly things to do in the morning. Here's a look at what family time has looked like lately....

We LOVE going out for a good breakfast. Since living here, Darnell was really missing abc or IHOP breakfasts.... so we were on a mighty big search for a tasty breakfast that didn't include rice:) We found Gram's Diner and its become a favourite Saturday morning hangout for us. They also have cartoons on in the morning.... can you tell Cody is a little distracted? We don't have a TV at home so this is a treat... makes for quite the relaxing breakfast, actually!

We went to Salcedo Market a couple weeks ago and found some amazing food from all over the world. We feasted on a moroccan dish, chicken curry, samosas, lugau (a tasty Filipino soup), some Italian sweets and mango shakes, and we brought home some sourdough bread, which we haven't been able to find anywhere else. And there was a playground there... perfect!

One Saturday we went to the Mind Museum with some friends. It's just down the street from our house and its an awesome museum for kids.... we all had a great time.

Last weekend we went to Rizal park, named after the national hero. We went for a walk and then headed to another kids museum to escape the heat. Another fun Saturday morning:)

A few weeks ago we had planned to go to a new indoor zoo in Manila, but after some miscommunication, the taxi driver brought us to the Manila Zoo instead. Once we got there we figured we might as well go in (and only $2.50 for all of us!) but it was not exactly what we were hoping for. While Cody did enjoy seeing the animals, the place was very dirty and the conditions for the animals were terrible. We got home earlier than planned and hit the pool to redeem the morning, though.

And today we found the zoo we were looking for!

a chicken wandered into the playroom and nested in the red pop-up
 tent behind me. kind of funny:) 

Right after this photo was taken Cody heard Darnell say
that it looked like the bearcat might jump and he freaked
 out....  "no bearcat up there jump on Cody!!!"