Philippines Day 6

Now, before you read today's entry, there is something you need to understand........My trip here was not a trip to seek adventure and be a tourist....It was to be about the Lord's business....The good thing about serving the Lord is that He does provide fun things to do along the way.......

As you look at the pictures below, just reflect on the previous days posts, and know that an emotional break was MORE than needed for everyone involved.....The first few pics are of me and Matt with shoebox children, then pics of the most amazing "touristy" thing I have ever done!!!!!




This is the little chubby kid I blogged about that reminded me of myself.....He was such a ham.....The pose hand under the chin is something everyone does over her for pictures....You will see a lot of that in my pics when I get back!!!

These are pics of our first scuba diving experience......IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To be under water was such a cool experience.......I felt so free...and weightless....for a chubby guy like me that was a great feat!!!!!!......I know many of you may see these pics and think ..."I didn't give my money so them boys could go play.." Calm down....It only cost 20 dollars to go.....We were able to go in groups of 4 and we were on the water all day....While we were waiting to go we were able to snorkel and get used to breathing underwater......That alone was amazing.....but then to be able to swim to the bottom and touch, feel, and pick up the things we saw was unreal!!!!!!! While I was under there, I was inches away from lion fish, frog fish, NEMO, DORI, Rainbow fish, jellyfish, sea turtles, angel fish.....it was like being in an aquarium.....I did get cut on my leg by some coral...it hurt bad under water bc of the salt.....

One funny thing that happened when we were under the water was when Matt swam by me and accidentally kicked my air tube out of my mouth.....Thank GOD we had a lesson b4 we went down....For a split second I freaked out and thought I was gonna die, but then I found my mouth piece and blew the water out as I had been taught.......When I got it back in my mouth I think I took the biggest breathe of my life.......We were only at about 15 feet, but that was far enough to freak me out......The pic below is Matt and I underwater, the fish just had to be in the shot.......