SEVEN WEEKS AWAY FROM OUR TRIP BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES

 Hello everybody.  It's been a month since my last entry.  We are seven weeks out and then we are flying to the Philippines to retire, live a simple quiet life in a small town in Southern Leyte.  Oh we have so many plans once we get back.  We have to redo our small house that served as a sari-sari store back when we live there for three years.  Nowadays, it is our storage area but we are thinking of making an improvement to it so that we can convert it into an Airbnb or Homestay.  We will rent it out and at the same time it can serve as a guest house when friends come to visit.  We also plan to extend the backside of the house so that we can have a tandem garage.  We have other plans and improvements to make....how we wish we are there already so we can start.

But here we are eagerly waiting for June and in the meantime we have other important matters to attend to to get us ready for our flight, like setting up a US address that we can use when we move to the Philippines or finding a phone carrier that allows us to use a US number in the Philippines, visiting our local Social Security office, our bank, our financial advisor, gathering paperwork for the immigration, securing JJ's transcript, registering for eTravel and other things.

JJ has three and a half weeks to go and school will be out.  The only school activities left for the school year is his school band concert, 8th grade dance and graduation on the 21st.  Then he's off to DC for his much awaited school trip in June.  Hopefully May will fly by fast.  We are already tired of living in this apartment specially when you can't open your patio door without being assaulted with a strong odor from a marijuana smoke.  Our suspect is the guy who lives downstairs who happens to be also very loud, ugh!

On a lighter note, Mike and I keep busy practicing our musical instruments of choice.  He, a harmonica and me a ukelele.  We plan to have a uke/harmonica concert on our porch swing when we get back to the Philippines.  Our audience? probably some stray dogs and some bull frogs, tehehehe.  Anyway, thanks lovely people for following us.  

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