Yacht Trip/Cooking Class/Coming Home

The two Grant's

Mike, Shiella, Grant, Susan, & Grant

Lunch on the Deck

Grant just relaxing

Just hanging out!

Grant Pace's yacht at Subic Bay

Cooking breakfast in the Galley

Sailing down the coast of Luzon

Cooking Class Raffel

Farewell Surprise Party

Last thursday morning we went up to Subic Bay with Mike and Sheilla our neighbors to go sailing on Grant Pace's yacht, the Puerto Galera. He was taking it down to Puerto Galera on the island of Mindoro. He named his yacht after this port. We sailed from Subic Bay in northern Luzon to another port south and spent the night there on the yacth. We went a shore for a swim and dinner at a very nice yacht club The next morning we were off to Puerto Galera.

The crew of three plus Captain Grant got going early. We arrived early afternoon and again moored at another yacht club. We went into town walked around a very interesting port city. We had dinner at a local restaurant and hotel. The next morning we left in a rain storm to catch a ferry to Batangas. That was quite an experience and a little scary as the ferry got hit by some big waves. Mike and Sheilla's driver and car were waiting for us and we rode home to Manila in about two hours. Our ferry ride took over an hour. I needed to be home to get ready for the R. S. cooking class I was teaching that afternoon. I had about 25 women sign up to learn baking skills and entertaining ideas. We had it in our little apartment but it worked out great and was so much fun. Grant even helped and we had a raffle to give many things we won't be taking home with us. After, Sheilla and Mike came and got us and said they wanted to show us something on the 6th floor of our building. So we went with them and when we got down there they took us into the party room and everyone yelled surprise! It was people from our ward that came to say good bye. We were totally blown away and surprised! They had all kinds of food and a big cake. Then they told us all the things they liked about us. It was quite touching to realize that we would be missed. For those of you who have not heard we decided to come home earlier than we had hoped. For a long time we had been wondering what to do. Grant had built out the clinic and then after that he just did not have much to do. We kept saying let's just give it some more time. We had even bought our tickets for coming back from being home in April. The people at the clinic were quite sad but they understood because they know the building just gets used one half day a week. Anyway we have kind of a compromise that they will group patients together and actually start using the building for the surgeries. Grant will return every two months to help do the surgeries. We fill good about things and think this will be for the best. If we can get them to use the building it will be a great accomplishment. See you all soon.