Thanks to all of you who have been praying for my headaches! They are pretty much gone, except for when I have spent an all too long day with the kids!

We had a quiet week and a half. Jason didn't have any scheduled flights so he kept busy working and the hangar and taking care of things around the house and town.

During our down time we were able to take a nice trip to the beach. It was a great time having fun together as a family and we enjoyed our first 'just for fun' trip since moving back here to the Philippines! We have new pictures of our weekend on our photo gallery.

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Its back in the saddle again. This week is a busy flight week and includes an overnight trip for Jason along with getting checked out on one of the last airstrips on the island. I'm planning on having a movie/scrapbooking night so I wont miss him too much. :-)

I had an interesting conversation with my house girls the other day. First, we were talking about having bad dreams while you sleep. They were telling me how people die when they have nightmares and cant wake up. From what I could make of the conversation, it is actually the nightmare and not being able to wake up from it that causes you to die. We had acutally heard this belief from one of our language teachers last year so it was interesting that it came up again.

The girls made sure that they pointed out that the death had happened to a well established believer of the church. Maybe to give the story some credibility - to point out that it wasn't just some superstitious beief. They said the problem was that he was exercising hard, sweating, then came home and ate too much and took a bath.

We know for sure that here they believe that if you sweat hard, you shouldn't go home and take a bath. Some of the workers that Jason knows from when the hangar was under construction would go home at the end of the day and not take showers. This was after working all day when it was 85+ degrees and 85+ percent humidity. They have a thing with sweating and bathing. Something about your pores opening and making you more susceptible to illness.

Then Susan, one of the girls, was telling me how they took her daughter into the hospital last year becuase her daughter was hemorrhaging. While they were at the hospital they tested her daughter's blood and found that she had high blood sugar and warned Susan that her daughter was borderline diabetic. I can't imagine what the doctor could have told her, but what she walked away with is that her daughter should eat cabbage, papaya and fish. She shouldn't have any other meat, avoid lots of other vegetables and fruit but they continue to eat white rice three times a day. I just about fell off of my chair! I don't know much about diabetes and nutrition, but that doesn't sound very healthy to me.