Bohol, Philippines

Here are some snaps of an amazing time me and the kids just had in Mary's home country, and in fact Mary's home island in her home country. After a pretty tortuous trip - involving me getting kids to bed at 8 then waking them at 2230 for a flight to Manilla then Bohol, they were sleepy/grumpy etc. I ended up standing for a 4 hour flight as I held Ollie's nodding head and the other arm was wrapped round the other seat to stop Amy rolling off. Oh dear. So no sleep for one whole night for that trip.

But when we got there Mary was there to meet us at the airport, and then we're off. What a beautiful country and what wonderful people. We had such a nice time. We got the opportunity to meet with Mary's family and kids, who all got on so so well with Ollie and Amy. Lovely to see that.

We did a lovely lunch in Tagbilaran, capital of Bohol. trike rides to and from hotel (like a tuk tuk), days tours to looks at chocolate hills, smallest monkey in world, butterfly gardens (yes Yuko I did get some photos that I will send to you), dolphin spotting etc etc. Just lovely!

We all had such a nice time and I hope Mary rested and enjoyed herself too with her family.

So above are some sample snaps and videos of the fun time we had. I hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed being in them and taking them.

All our love Bri and the kids xxx

Some new pictures

So a very good freind comes to the house after I had had a bad night morning - in fact missed a client meeting, which luckily Ged was there to cover for me. He sees the huge canvass picture I just had done of the kids and we start chatting re it. I was mentioning that I was going to go to photographer but she was looking to charge $2k. It was then that Ged mentioned he dabbled in photography and that he'll book a studio and he'll take a few snaps of me and the kids, all artful like with black and white, including the clothes. So along we all pop yesterday and had a great 2 hours, we go to meet Ged's wife Susan and also another freind from work's kids. Great fun and then WOW look at the output - and Ged says he "dabbles". Crikey I think you'll agree the man is a professional!!!! I LOVE THESE PHOTOGRAPHS!!!!!!!!