Our first outing in Perth was to Burswood Park to meet up with Filipino co-workers for a BBQ.

We toured around a small section of Kings Park on this beautiful day.

Ended our first day in Perth by visiting City Beach. The kids didn’t need their swimming suits to enjoy the water!

Day 2 was spent at SciTech.

Day 3 we went to the zoo. The kangaroos roam freely in the Australian section.

Day 4 we visited the museum. This dinosaur was making some loud noises.

Day 4 was also spent walking around city center and taking the free hop on hop off buses.

Day 5 was spent at the aquarium. Mason really liked the touch pool.

Day 5 was also the coldest day we were there so we had some fabulous hot chocolate at the nearby shops in Hillary.

Day 6 we went to Caversham Wildlife Park where dreams came true of touching kangaroos and koalas.

Day 7 we toured the Fremantle Prison that was in operation until 1991.

Farley family had a wonderful week in Perth, Australia!

What we did while the Hansens were visiting us. Stuff for the kids, for the moms and for the whole family.

Sunday afternoon at the American Cemetery in Manila.

The kids and moms enjoyed a day at Santa Elena Fun Farm. We spent the day fishing, horse back riding, feeding animals, doing a zip line, riding a water buffalo/carabao pulled wagon, etc.

Matt’s co-workers treated us to a Girls Night Out at Palladium.

A friend took us to get our hair colored. I got purple and Makana got blue streaks through out our hair. We are the Fruit Loops in a Cherrio world.

The kids enjoyed a day at Ark Avilon where we were able to feed fish and crocodiles, hold birds and a python. Sadly, Jenny the orangutan was getting a physical so we didn’t get to meet her.

We spent a morning making sock puppets with young girls who have been abused.

The kids enjoyed playing at Kidzville where they could get their energy out and use their imagination.

Just the 2 of us went to Taal Volcano on a day trip.

We met 2 more cousins that are living in Manila and had dinner with them at a mall one night.

We had a long wait for a ferry boat in Dumeguete before we could take the Hansens to Siquijor. So we spent time at the mall getting massages, pedicures, eating, people watching and fish spa…I think she liked the fish eating her dead skin cells!

Now 2 of my siblings have been to Siquijor and visited our long lost relatives.

We all got into our cousin’s boat and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Siquijor.

We picked Mckay up at the airport and headed directly to Siquijor. He was really tired and spent most of the boat ride trying to sleep.

Mckay only had 2 days in Manila with us. So we made sure he had a spa day and then we went to Pagsanjan Falls.

The kids all loved playing with each other for 3 weeks.

I loved being with my sister and showing her around the Philippines.

One of the taxi drivers was from the island of Siquijor…the same island that my grandfather is from. And he is a cousin of our cousin…small world!

We love the Shangri-La. Very kid friendly and relaxing.

We enjoyed the ocean and beach.

We attended the cultural night show and buffet dinner. Although the power went out of a few minutes, it was still enjoyable.

We rented a jeepney for the day to tour Cebu. The kids liked climbing on the back when we were stopped.

Normally we looked like this inside the jeepney. 2 of Nate’s friends from his mission served as our tour guide for the day.

Matt has a bad back and bad knees. So he opted to stretch out by standing on the back of the jeepney for most of the evening.

We went to TOPS in Cebu. It is on top of a mountain and much cooler. The kids had fun running around and playing tag until it started to rain.

View of Cebu as seen from TOPS.

We had a tour of the ProFoods factory where they package all of the dried mangos and coconuts. These are some of the items that they produce.

We saw the LDS Cebu Temple and it is BEAUTIFUL!

Welcome Elder Farley Family and Friends! It was a big social gathering in honor of Nate returning to his mission.

As guest of Honor, we sat at our own table and had utensils, glass plates and our own separate food from everyone else.

The majority of the group that attended the dinner. We picked up about 20 of them in our rented jeepney so they didn’t have to pay to come.

And then it was time to leave Cebu and the next day the Farley family left Manila to return to the states.

Since we took 5 kids on 4 different airplanes we had to be creative on how to entertain them. One time we did brake down and just handed everyone an electronic devise while we waited for our plane to arrive.

Old Roman Catholic Church, Baclayon, Bohol. Its first structure was built in 1595, but the current building is from 1724.

1565 blood compact between Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna, the chieftain of Bohol. A blood compact was intended to seal a friendship, pact, or treaty, or to validate an agreement.

Python Sanctuary…this snake is still alive but doesn’t move because of obesity.

We paid $2.50 to have this “ladyboy” do a comical rendition of Mariah Carey…Mason wasn’t impressed.

“Hanging Bridge” made of some steel wire, but mostly bamboo.

We paid this guy $2.50 to husk a coconut with his teeth…He did it under 10 seconds.

Trying to get tickets for lunch and the guys got rushed by strangers who wanted their photo taken with blonde hair, blue eye, good looking foreigners.

Lunch buffet while floating down the Loboc River. We had our own private musician for our boat.

Dancers we saw while on the Loboc River.

Chocolate Hills of Bohol…what the island is known for

You can see Tarsiers (smallest primate) at Bohol.

At the last stop of our tour we saw more tarsiers just before closing time and the worker put one on our hands.

Last stop on our tour was a super fun kids play area.

Walking around Nate’s old mission area trying to find food and to see if Nate recognizes anything from nearly 15 years ago.

We stayed at a pretty run down place, but it was near the ferry port. We all loaded up into 2 trikes and headed to the ferry terminal to go to Cebu.

While waiting to board the ferry boat there was a family of musicians to entertain us. The youngest daughter was a really good singer.

Ready to get inside a poorly air conditioned ferry boat for the next 30-60 minutes to go to Cebu.

Ready to board our plane for Coron…but first a few rounds of the game “Telephone” while we wait for the plane.

This island is Club Paradise as seen from the plane.

After an hour long plane ride, the resort had a shuttle waiting for us at the airport.

After the 30 minute shuttle ride, we got on a boat for about 40 minutes to get to the resort. It was a beautiful view the whole time and they had a sack lunch waiting for each of us.

We had our own private musicians greet us once we arrived to the resort.

Our room at Club Paradise was spacious and everyone had a proper bed to sleep in.

Taking a hike around the resort. Our destination was a look-out tower to see some fruit bats.

We passed by this lagoon on our hike and spotted some monitor lizards…can you find them?

Fruit bats leaving the resort island at dusk to to hunt on the main island.

Dinner buffet on the beach and an Easter show our first night where we won 2 free massages.

We saw some jellyfish and some got stung by them while swimming. But, we also saw sea turtles since they eat jellyfish.

Powdery white sandy beaches at Club Paradise was perfect to bury the kids.

Leaving for our day excursion of the “Coron Island Tour” where we were able to snorkel at 3 different locations and spend time at a Natural Spring in Coron.

Coron has some of the cleanest and clearest water that we have ever seen. The rock formations were pretty spectacular as well.

All 9 of us enjoyed snorkeling and seeing all the fish in the extremely clear water.

The Natural Hot Springs were HOT since it was already a hot and sunny day.

Everyone had a wonderful time at Club Paradise with it’s beautiful sandy beaches, buffet food, fruit bats, ocean, pool, games, massages, etc

It was sad to leave Club Paradise, but we still had many more fun adventures planned.