What a trip! The entire family went on a three week long trip to the Philippines. Long list of activities all punctuated with stuffing our faces with amazing food.
Summary:
Long airplane ride
Crazy Manila driving
Jolibee
Parents home town
Grandparents and cousins
Lola’s cooking
Car seat/seatbelt-less commuting
Swimming
Mangos
Redhorse and GSM
Rice Fields
Carabau ride
Baguio
TT man
Taguig City
Market Market
Condo
Boracay white sand beaches
Mango shakes w/ a little something
Massage
Kamay Kainan (all you can eat)
Cheese ice cream
Haggle shopping
Spa facial
Swing Dancing
Dell
On our own
Taxi
Museum…not
Max’s Chicken delivery
Yaya
Alibata
“I’m false”
Another set of plane rides
A-holes in LA
Cancelled flight
Lost luggage
THE END
We’re all exhausted and extremely jet lagged. For the past couple days, we have been waking up at 2:30 in the morning, staying up until 8:00 then passing out again until 4:00PM. This morning we even went grocery shopping at 6:00 AM.
Here are the highly anticipated pictures from our trip to the homeland.
I have to preface it by saying I didn’t take as many as I wanted. It was so difficult to tote around my massive camera everywhere. I ended up leaving it behind most of the time. I am definitely in the market for a more portable G10.
My Lola on my father’s side. She’s 92!
The girls loved the orange soda.
Tito Jamie.
Lolo.
Cousins.
Chillin out in the hammock at my cousins house.
Cousin Janice and her baby boy.
BALOT!
Ana got a little fussy while walking around, but nothing a little food couldn’t cure.
Food fair on the streets of Baguio. FYI the it’s 47 pesos to the dollar. This banana Q was 25 cents.
The rice field that belongs to my dad’s family. In the middle of the fields, there is a growth of trees only accessible by foot. We had fun walking on the pilapil (the raised ground, mostly mud, between the area where they plant the rice. No rice growing right now. They just harvested a few weeks before we got there.
A very old and large mango tree at the rice field.
My great uncle, Lolo Rody.
Carabao (water buffalo)
My Lola doing what she does best. She makes the best Filipino grub. I swear, she tried to feed us every hour. You know I wasn’t complaining.
My Tito Bernie’s family. Tita Arleen and cousins Alisa and Tick-boy.
Caticlan. About to board the boat that took us to Boracay.
My dad’s cousin, Tito Boy and his wife Tita Nena (gotta love the nick names in the PI).
On the ride over, they allowed me to sit on the outside of the boat so I could get better pictures.
Fairways and Bluewater’s resort. This is where we called home for the next few days. Complete with golf course and private beaches.
White sand and clear water.
The girls and my sister giving themselves an all natural body scrub.
Dad
My dad’s sister, Tita Grace.
Me
I still have to go through the pictures on our point and shoot camera. Will post them soon.
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