TripleG

After you clear customs at the Manila airport...you have to cross the street and then go down a ramp. Let your girlfriend negotiate the Taxi fare to Cavite or let them run the meter, either way it won't be too expensive. Once your in Cavite don't be scared to ride the Jeepney's for cheap transportation. Food is cheap..4 people can eat at Jollibee for the equivilant of 7USD or less. Have a good time, keep your head on a swivel until you get used the surroundings and try not to look lost. Try to use ATM's inside of the Bank, and break your money down when ever you can. Don't carry around all 500's. Make change where ever you can and get a bunch of 20's, 50's and 100 peso bills.

Our first son Waylon was born in the U.S.A. and doesn't carry his mothers maiden name. Our second son Willie has only one first name and carries his mothers maiden name as his middle name. I tried to give Willie my fathers name as his middle name, but the Civil Reistar's office in San Carlos wouldn't accept the application being sent to the NSO without the mothers maiden name being included in his name. I didn't want his entire name to be too long, so no 2 first names.
Wyatt

Dude thats like 30,000 pesos every month. WAY too much in my opinion. I don't see any problem sending the parents a few pesos every month if yall have it, but I would cut off the siblings straight away. On my next trip I would embarass the brother who put that comment on her facebook page in public, and if he didn't relent I would tune him up. Trust me even her dad would understand and if he doesn't let him know his pesos could dry up real quick also. I would be furious too at a comment like that. I wouldn't tip-toe around my wife concerning how I felt about the comment either. Yeah she is going to pout, but so what. In my opinion a Filipina's first response is to internalize things and pout, but if you don't give in and add a little more force for a few days and then back off she will eventually open back up. Definately don't walk on eggshells, this will send the wrong message. Remember you have every right to be pissed off right now, so just go with it. Your wifes family needs to respect you. It doesn't sound like they do right now, play the bad guy for a few months with them and her parents will get excited about 5000 pesos.
Looks like you responded with some closure to the situation at the same time I posted. Good luck.
Just my 2 cents,
Wyatt

Sorry, Have to call Bull$hit on this article
January 20, 2006
Overstaying American falls
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) 7 discovered a mail-order-bride business in Cebu City with the arrest last Jan. 17 of an overstaying American national who also allegedly faked his marriage to a Cebuana three years ago.
BI 7 Director Geronimo Rosas said the suspect, Woody Paul Petrea Sr., 39, of Georgia, USA, was arrested inside his Internet cafe in Barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City.
Petrea is detained at the immigration jail in Mandaue City pending his voluntary deportation at 12:45 p.m. tomorrow. Rosas allowed his voluntary deportation to spare the government from buying his plane ticket.
Immigration Special Prosecutor Serafin A. Abellon investigated him for working without a Department of labor and Employment permit and using his wife, Jan Debbie Pernia, as a dummy in his illegal business.
Under oath
Petrea admitted under oath that he married Pernia on Jan. 14, 2003 in Cebu City before Judge Rosales.
But immigration officers wondered how it happened when he arrived in Cebu on Jan. 24, 2003 yet, or 10 days later. He extended his stay and became an overstaying alien.
Immigration authorities have yet to determine if the Judge Rosales mentioned by Petrea is Judge Edgemelo Rosales of Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 8.
Rosas said he will recommend for the blacklisting of Petrea for being an undesirable alien. Pernia's allegation that they separated two months ago because she could no longer bear being a battered wife can support their case against the American.
Petrea also admitted he and Pernia processed the visa and marriages of aliens who have Filipino girlfriends or fiancees in the Philippines and collect at least US$200 (P11,000) per client. While their business permit issued by Cebu City Hall is under the name Pointman Cebu Internet Cafe, the signboard is Cebu Tours.Com.
Consultant
Cebu City Councilor Arsenio Pacala said he conferred with his legal consultant to study what the City Council can do to prevent similar businesses here.
�We will look into how the mail-order-bride business is being operated by Petrea and what damage it brought to Cebu, Pacala said.
In 2002, the Cebu Provincial Board passed a resolution asking Congress to immediately pass the Anti-Trafficking of Women and Minors Bill because the mail-order-bride industry reduces Filipino into mere sex commodities. (EOB)
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2006/01/20/news/overstaying.american.falls.html