The cat's out of the bag.......

As some of you know, or may have heard, Landon and Kacey and Payson are moving to the Philippines !  Landon has been made the Site Director over Focus Direct in Bacolod, Philippines. They will be moving in the next 3-4 weeks, and will be there for one year, and most likely longer if everything goes as planned.

We are excited and happy for them.  Attitude is everything.  What a wonderful opportunity for their little family to experience a part of the world that not many people have the chance to even visit.

Landon spent 10 days there a week ago.  It's a LONG trip.  Salt Lake to Seattle, to Tokyo, to Manilla, to Bacolod.  Pronounced Bah KOH lod, with an emphasis on the KOH.

Bacolod is located on the Negros Island on the Occidental side, in the Philippines.  Occidental means WEST, and Oriental means EAST.  (my dad taught me that :)  Manila is located on the Island of Luzon (larger island to the North)  All I knew about the Philippines before this, was that they were located in the South Seas, somewhere SOUTH and WEST of Hawaii.  Now I know (thanks to Google Earth), that the Philippines are just below Japan, and just above Australia.

Bacolod is across the international date line, and is about 15 hours a head of our time.

Focus will fly them home once a year, so we probably won't see them until Christmas.  Thank goodness for Skype :)  Cody and Jordyn Carter will be joining them in a couple of months.  Cody will be the assistant site director, and Jordyn is Kacey's sister.  Kacey is VERY happy about this.  Carol (their mom), not so much :(

Over the next couple of weeks, I'll continue to post information to help us all learn more about Bacolod, Philippines.  Oh, and it looks like a visit to the Philippines just was added to my BUCKET LIST :)