PASYAL PA MORE...PA MORE!

So it's been a year already since we got back home, but our bagong salta tour continues! So much fun for me the LLDD-Baby! We especially like places that are not only enjoyable but also teach valuable early life lessons to the young 'un, such as...

Mind Museum   

lesson learned: when you got to go, you got to go

Avilon

lesson learned: daddy's a wuss

Jump Yard

lesson learned: daddy's a wuss who's afraid he might hurt himself at a place like this yet resentful that there wasn't a place like this when he was young

Kidzania

lesson learned: while it is within a country's right to establish a points-based system of immigration as a means, among others, of managing local jobs and employment, the implementation thereof can be challenged in the courts insofar as it may unduly restrict movement of labor across borders particularly in the highly-skilled and creative sectors.

OUR AMBASSADOR TO NEW ZEALAND JUST HAD HIS PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS, AND IT LOOKED COOL AS HECK

I always thought the haka freakin' ruled so hard, and that doing it before a rugby match was the coolest thing not just in sports, but in everything.  

Turns out, diplomats representin' in New Zealand get to bask in similar awesomeness.

That up there is our Ambassador at his pres cred, and what they're giving him is the pōwhiri or traditional Māori welcome. It involves a lead warrior dropping a spearhead in front of the Ambassador, who must then pick it up and return it to the warrior without breaking eye contact to signify he comes in peace. The ceremony ends with the traditional Maori greeting hongi where the visitors and hosts press their noses and foreheads together.

So cool.

Hey, remember the pres cred we had in the UK? That was also something.