Hopping Islands

This is inside of one of the caves we have explored:



Josh has been to many countries all over the world. Apparently it wasn’t until he arrived in the Philppines that he found a bacteria to take him out. Tuesday morning about 1am he woke up shivering cold but he was sweating and very hot. This lasted until about 5pm Tuesday night when I finally brought him to the hospital.

The hospitals here, although a 3rd world country, are very clean. They do not have the best equipment and they allow the possibility of tree gods cursing you to be the reason you are sick. However, the blood and urine test results only took an hour to process. Sure enough, he had some weird bacteria that wasn’t too happy about his body trying to kick it out. We went back to my homestay so he could rehydrate and rest some more. I ran to the pharmacy to get him some prescription Advil. I am not sure if I mentioned this before but Jerry, the father of the homestay I lived with, is well known for his great success in Cock Fighting. Due to the rain, jerry kept all 5 roosters in the house. So, this hindered Josh from getting fully rested.

Wednesday afternoon I forced him out of bed to come and meet the Deaf students I worked with two years ago. We caught a plane to the island of Cebu and found a really nice cheap hotel with air condition and NO roosters to spend the night. Laying in bed watching National Geographic at 6pm in a new exotic city on an island Josh has never been to was no ideal. But I knew he needed to rest.

Thursday morning I kept all the lights off and was very quiet until about 8am. Since the buffet breakfast was only open until 9… we had to get a move on. The most amazing continental breakfast you could imagine! Rolls, bacon, eggs, pancakes, rice, corned beef, coffee, tea, corn flakes, juices…. It was great! I felt bad that josh didn’t really have his appetite back yet. So, I ate for the both of us. 

This is the sunrise we saw when we camped on top of the mountain...







Josh rested a little more as I packed up the room and we headed to the Cebu City Market around 10:30am. It was HUGE. We walked and walked and walked. Josh didn’t enjoy the tricycles and the jeepney rides since his body is much bigger than any Filipinos who have to get in and out of them.

We caught the 2pm fast craft back to Tagbilaran City. This only took an hour and 45 mintues. Much better than the 8 hour trip in the beginning of the week. Upon arriving at the Pier we had many taxi drivers and tricycle drivers trying to convince us that 150P was a cheap price to get into town. However, I knew that we were only 800 meters away from where we needed to catch our jeepney. So we walked away and found an honest tricycle driver to take us all the way out of town for the appropriate price of 40P.

we only got caught in the rain one time in bohol:


I made soup and grilled cheese sandwiches with tea for supper. Hoping this will help Josh feel better. He went to bed early and I let him sleep until he woke up this morning, which was about 10am. So, we will see what the day brings us. He seems to be doing a lot better after getting a full night sleep with out roosters or me waking him up for any reason.

Thanks so much for your prayers. We love you!