From Auntie Genni, Baz, the imaginative boy

Last night, Baz was playing with his magnetic shapes and decided to make a sailboat. When it was time to put the flag on the boat, he picked an orange triangle and asked me what country had an orange flag. I said I don't know, I don't think there's a country with an orange flag so Baz just made up a country, he called it Gabiday. I know the spelling because I asked Baz to spell it. Then he continued to tell me all about Gabiday. It was a pretty detailed description. He continued imagining about Gabiday this morning. I can't remember all the details but here goes --

- it has tall, tall buildings with four basements: B4, B3, B2, B1, G, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, LowerPenthouse then the roofdeck (note, he didn't include the number 13 in the floor count)

- the buildings have bubble elevators, which are also rocket elevators that go z-z-z-z-z-z-zoom because the buildings are very tall; "it's a fast rocket ship bubble elevator"

- the elevators do not have walls, they have windows and doors and there are bubbles in them

- right outside the buildings is the ocean

- the CAT company is responsible for building everything in Gabiday

- Gabiday has big, big, big roads; there are 100 roads

- all the cars in Gabiday are fast race cars, some cars have donut wheels

- Gabiday has a big, big planetarium

- Gabiday also has pyramids

- apparently, Gabiday is somewhere in the Pacific Ocean because to get to Gabiday, "From the Philippines, you go south, then you go to Japan, then Hawaii, then Gabiday"

- the people in Gabiday are called Oreia (again, I asked Baz to spell this); the language spoken is also called Oreia

- the language sounds something like this: "kapawipa kapawipa wapawapa wapawapa wapi wapa wapa wapa wa"

- the planetarium is a really tall building and to get out of it, you get on a log ride, a roller coaster slide that has water

- it always rains in Gabiday but there rainbows all the time, really big rainbows

- there are good fountains in Gabiday and you can walk around them without falling into them and as you walk around them, you sing "walk around the fountain, walk around the fountain"

- there is one hotel in Gabiday, Mandarin Oriental; to get to the hotel -- from the Planetarium, go to the overpass, turn straight to 81 Manila High Street

- Gabiday "celebrates Costume Day on April 19, not like in the Philippines where Costume Day is April 18"

hmmm, i'm sure i'm forgetting some other stuff, Baz has such an active imagination...and so detailed

BTW, Baz supplied all the information and details about Gabiday. I did not ask any questions or offer anything that added to his details. (Like, it was he who thought of naming the people and the language of Gabiday, with no prompting from me.) I basically just repeated what he said or reacted with a "wow" and "really?" and "Gabiday sounds like a fun country." At one point, I slipped and said "Gabiday sounds like a fun city" and he corrected me saying, "Gabiday is a country."

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From Auntie April: BAZ IS A GENIUS!!!

From Ninang Ritchie: YesP, Baz is a genius but it is really better for him not to know
that....in the condo, I asked him if I could be a citizen of Gabiday
and he said "nope"
:-(