Still Showery II

We have had either heavy rain or intermittent showers daily for around 10 days now.  Right now the sun is shining but give it another 20 minutes and it could be drizzling again!  No way would you get the washing dry today.

You may have had more luck yesterday as it was almost showery free.  But despite being a better day yesterday there was another 5mls into the rain gauge this morning.  Since the rain started over 10 days ago we have amassed over 7" (or 180mls) in total.

So the garden doesn't need a water, the pool is full and we have just about had enough.  The wet weather is beginning to remind us of another place we used to live!

But it isn't cold at all, but around 28° each day and it can be a little sticky.

Well it seems we are off to the Philippines later this year.  We have received an invitation to a nephew's wedding (Peter) which is being held in Tagaytay around 2 hours drive south of Manila.

Unlike other Australian capital cities, up until a few days ago, there wasn't a direct flight from our part of the world to Manila.  But this is all about to change with Philippines Airlines commencing direct flights from Brisbane to Manila in a couple of months.  We may have grabbed a 'promo special' with rather cheap tickets available with the new route, so at this stage all is going well for the wedding in early December.

We looked at flights with the cut price airlines via Kuala Lumpur but even with those airlines the deal we currently look like getting with PAL is still around $250 cheaper for each of us.  Trish is in the process of booking our seats right now as I type.

We booked through a website called "Skyscanner" which Peter recommended to us.  We even save $20 per head via Skyscanner than had we have gone directly with the Bestjet website to which Skyscanner had directed us.

It is a 'full flight' with a meal and 30kg luggage each.  We will tentatively sort out some AirBnB for both Tagaytay and Manila, then get the final OK when we catch up with the Peter and Vecy. They live in Brisbane and we have made tentative arrangements to catch up.

Whilst going through the booking process there was an extra charge so we could select our seats and then another charge to use the credit card.  The credit card gives us 'free' travel insurance'.  Still a super deal for 'full international return flights' despite the 'extras'.