Drove through my first flood! LOL

Well the other day started off normal as any other here, HOT!! Nice and hot just as I like it!  Went to the mall with Jeny and had a nice lunch and best of all, STARBUCKS!  I had a Caramel Macciato.... my favorite.  All in all that was the majority of the day.  Pretty normal as I said, until about 7 pm.  That's when we got a call from our daughter Kelly at her University still explaining why she had not left for home yet.  Low and behold the streets were flooded!!  So off we drove to pick her up.  All I can say is (thank god) we have a Pajero lol.  Cars were stranded everywhere from water flooding their engines.  Not only cars but some Multicabs and Jeepneys as well, which surprised me considering how much higher they are.  Now when I say flooded keep in mind I'm from South Carolina in the United States lol.  Even so the water was 3-4 feet deep. But aside from learning how to drive in deep water and being thankful for a large SUV I learned one more important and vital fact that night.  Never and I mean NEVER ask Jeny if I should turn left or right.  Now as I know the normal way around Cebu back and forth from the malls and university Kelly goes to and back to our home on Lapu-Lapu keep in mind the streets were flooded.  So I looked at Jen and asked should I turn to the "right" here?  She replied "YES" and pointed to the left.  Hmmmm lol.  So needless to say I will never ask her directions again.  I told her from now on point and say turn here. :)

Ok so here I go.  I've never been big on blogging, but seeing as I've just made a drastic change in my life why stop now.  Until recently I was just your typical american, and by typical i guess i just mean i lived there lol.  I'm from a decent size town in South Carolina called Florence (yes like in Italy but far less great).  Even though its of a fairly reasonable size it's utterly BORING there so  I wouldn't suggest it as your next vacation spot.  However I've recently left that wonderfully miserable place behind and headed for a new and exciting life in Cebu Philippines!!  Yea a drastic change i know, but what is life if you don't live it to be happy and experience new cultures and ideas.  Well i must say this is definitely new.  Everything here is different obviously but the biggest shock was the crazy driving!  For over a week I was to intimidated to even think about wanting to think about driving lol.  I thought no way in hell am I going to learn to drive here, but in less than a few days driving my wife is telling me I'm already driving like a Visayan.  Who would've thought!