Where's Scott?

First order of business next morning is getting Mabel’s dad a doctor’s appointment. He’s been sickening over the past year, but hasn’t yet had a checkup, so we’re going to make a trip back or Ormoc to get him evaluated. We also plan on getting the truck Seb’s arranged for us to rent a few well needed repairs; the starter’s out (it has to be push started ;), there’s no fan (let alone AC), and the windows are stuck down. Mabel’s also got a bad tooth, so we a dentist visit to the iternerary. We gather with the truck out front of Mabel’s parent’s house, and as we gather them into the truck, we can see that the truck will be taking all (if not more, since we don’t have the bags) from the previous night’s trip with us. We hear through the grapevine that everyone thinks there’ll be another Jollybee, so they’ll make the trip to find out.

About an hour into the trip we have feel fortunate for the company, the truck blows a tire and we trundle to a halt. Several of the crew jump into action; flats must be a daily occurance, as they whip out the spare and get it installed in less then 10 minutes! They’ll get the flat vulcanized in Ormoc so we’ll have a new spare for the trip back (I wonder how many cycles of use-flat-spare these tires have seen; they’re almost bald, and for 4×4 tires, that’s a lot of mileage).

In town we drop dad at the doc, and Seb and I go on the hunt for an ATM and an icafe. After a few hours in line, the doc hands Mabel a long list of prescriptions for her dad, and Seb figures out that he’s going to need a bigger pile of cash for the pills. We coax Mabel to the dentist and find out she has 14 cavities, and the dentist promises to stay late so he can fill 8 while we wait (Mabel pretty brave to face 8 fillings in one sitting!). Seb’s running around between projects, hair on fire, bleeding cash and getting a bit testy, but by sunset we’ve settled on a partial prescription fill and an open air BBQ dinner for the whole crew by the bus depot, and Mabel with most of a new mouth. With a rough 2 hour trip home in the dark, we pray we can miss all the nails!