January 1 - Welcome Back!
After a decade and a year, Pe, Noy and Earl with their folks landed PH moments before New Year's Day. Hoohaaaa! The two-week vacation has finally started. As expected, It took them ages to get to Manuela, grandparent's home and where they will be bunking. Oh you know, the typical New Year's coundown ceremonies and the juicy shindigs that follow everywhere. All psyched up with plans for the succeeding days, we rushed to Manuela to finally meet them.
OMG, they are huge! Not to mean badly, but indeed they have really grown collosally beefed up. I have already braised myself for that. Nonetheless, I still can't seem to shake off the thought that I, being a couple of months older than them, now looked so tiny and helpless with them around.
In the morning (errrmm... when i was still bumming in front of the TV and watching Happy Feet), they dropped by our place hoping they could catch me sleeping. Wehehe thank gawd I woke up early otherwise my room will be messier!
We had our usual New Year's Day luncheon cum reunion with rounds of wine and projected videoke. This year, though, we had Pe sang (scratch that-- tried singing... tried so hard hehehe peace!) local songs such as Mr. Suave and Sasakyan Kita which sounded awfully hilarious! Us, girls, needless to say were his back-up dancers :P Dinner was at Market Market! Seafood joint where we stuffed ourselves with soooo much food that could last 'til the following day.
January 2 - Batangas
The longest day ever. We woke up so early as advised but ended up setting off before noon because the car won't start. Whew!
We reached the resort dying of hunger (i know, i'm exaggerating) and in dire need of a clean bathroom (remembering that nightmarish gas station bathroom somewhere in the town after Lipa City). I have always loved the feel of beach sand on my feet until that time. Note to self: It's stupid to have a footspa even days before you go to the beach. To aggravate matters, the sand there are aquarium sand (if there is such a thing). My soles hurt!
Despite of that, there are 3 funniest things J's camera captured:
1. Tatay on pink Speedos
2. The horny dog
3. The betlogs taking their photo with Jollibee
Hilarious!
January 3 to January 4 - Subic
Supervised FUN -- that's how we call it. There are so much things to do there (ie. go cart, night life, swing for life, bungee jump... erm, that's too much) but we never did had the chance. One, because we are with the grandparents and they tend to be so cautious (well they are just concerned) ; two, because we don't have J's ride ( read: the official car for the below 30) as "upper management" said we should only bring two cars. Hehe peace! Well, to be fair to them I agree that it was safer that way than to bring 3.
Tita Carolle was so kind to book two 3-bedroom houses. One for us kids and the other for the over 30 :P We were actually imagining ourselves being in one of those reality-tv contest where you are housed in one joint for a certain duration until you get voted out. Guess what, i got voted out first! Haha I was advised to stay with Nanay on the other house across :(
Dinner was in a restaurant with a nice view of the pier (or was it really a pier?) and a funky age-old gigantic fan!
After dinner, we went back to our joint. Packed with local beers and music from J's laptop, us kids just thrashed the joint and spent the night catching up and remiscing the good old days. We finished at 2am and by that time, no one was up to open the door for me and I really don't want to wake up anybody. I went back to the kid's joint and ended up taking the couch instead.
Come morning, breakfast consisted of hotdogs, bread, last night's leftovers, chocolates, kegs of potato chips, egg, and of course the instant pancit canton. Charged with that, the first stop was in the 20 feet water falls.
Awestruck we were when big Earl Jo actually too the plunge! The falls itself is morethan 20 feet high and the puddle was about 20 feet deep as well. He is the only one who had the balls to do it with of course the prissy Ramona :) Yiiihhhiiiiii!! Kidding aside, i personally think what they did was really cool!
Subic's beach is waaaaay better than Batangas'. Didn't enjoy much of the sea as there are no available water activities to do anyway except to swim (which I happen to suck big time). With my ex-vasity jock now big bellied dad Kuya on the team, beach volleyball was the shizz! Surprisingly, Ninoy played really well, too.
The after lunch activity is even nastier. Pepe taught me some yoga moves which i hardly copied... urgh, i really need to lose weight! We threw some sand a bit and then decided to bury Earl. Cool boobies, dude! Woohoo!
El Kabayo hizz came next and a merienda at at the yacht club before we set home.
January 5
Probably exhausted from the trips we had... Friday was dubbed rest day for everyone. Meeehhh not to me at least. I went back to work and then went out with Chip, Neil and Elrond :P Hey, cut me some slack... it was a Friday night!
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