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Turns out El Nido has good birds too

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  After the whirlwind week of our wedding , we had the chance to do some traveling with our families who had come for the wedding, including Nikki's sister, my parents, sister, uncles Rusty and Kevin, and friend Clayton coming all the way from the US. These weren't the only people who traveled a long way–in fact our wedding involved a fair amount of travel for nearly all the guests–but they were the ones we traveled with. This was actually the second time in the Philippines for most of my family- my parents and sister had visited me in Sorsogon way back in the day when I first got here (Morgan ended up getting caught in a massive typhoon on her visit), and Kevin had come in 2017 for a mega birding trip through the country. However, we wanted to make sure they got to see more than just Sorsogon for this visit, as lovely as Sorsogon is. Unfortunately, this meant (briefly) parting ways: Nikki stayed in Sorsogon for a few days to spend time with her sister, Kevin jetted off to Sama