Third Day of our Journey to Butuan

San Juanico Bridge between Samar and Leyte Province. Considered as one one of the most beautifully-designed bridges in the Philippines. It is the longest bridge in the country, spanning more than 2 kilometers above the sea. Completed in 1973, the building fo the bridge was initiated by Former President Ferdinand Marcos. MY husband is standing in San Juanico Bridge taking video for souvenir.

When we reach San Juanico Bridge all my girls are sleeping. When i woke them up to take some picture they all moaned. As you can see May -may on this picture hubag pa ang mata kay bag -o lang nagmata.

Ate our breakfast at Jolibee in Calbayog City. We stop on this city not only to eat but to be fix our car as well. One of the brake pad need changing because the road from Samar to Calbayog City is very rocky road. What i meant is that road is so lubak lubak . The driver always used the brake so frequently when we arrived in Calbayog one of the tire is already smoking. We are just so lucky that we reach the city that someone could fix the car kay kung sa tunga tunga me nadautan we don't know unsa amo buhaton.The face of the owner of the car is really worried kay basig dili na makabot sa Butuan ang sakyanan tungod sa kadaot sa dalan. My husband said if he only knew that the road is so lubak lubak he won't dare to travel by land. It takes us 3 hours drive from Samar to Calbayog City.

We slept in one of the Travel lodge in Samar. The lodge we slept is near the sea. We woke up around 4am to start our second journey in going to our place Butuan City. My girls enjoying the view of the sea side.

Matnog Pier

It's our first ferry boat ride of our journey. This is the first boat ride of my children and they are all excited. While we are on the top of the ferry boat,we can see the children swimming on the sea and asking to throw some money on them. The children shouting " ate,pambaon lang bukas" (sister, just pocket money for school tomorrow). My children amazed when they saw the kids on the sea.

Matnog Pier

Land Travel to Butuan City

Land travel from Manila to Butuan City, it takes as 2 nights and 3 days. Our first stopover is this manificient Mount Mayon (the perfect cone). This is the Mount Mayon Volcano in Daraga, Albay. The majestic Mount Mayon is world-famous for it's perfectly-shaped cone. It rises 2,422 meters from it's broad base radius of 10km. It is still considered to be an active volcano, it's last eruption being in 2006. Mount Mayon's most violent recorded eruption was in February 1, 1814 where thousands of people perished and hundreds of acres of land were covered with volcanic lava and dark ash.

Daragang Magayon which means BEAUTIFUL GIRL

My family at the entrance in going to Mount Mayon

My gorgeous husband is posing on this cross sign. This cross sign you will see this every time you take a corner in going up to Mount Mayon. My lovely daughter's is all out smile. At their back is the top of Mount Mayon. It's too foggy you can't really see the tip of the volcano.

for the boys only

We slept in LC Travelodge in Bicol for a night and in the morning we will start again our journey.

Emilie

This is my housemate Emilie. She's a nurse here in England but at the moment she's on 2 years career leave. We visit them on their place in Cavite. She's 5 months pregnant on that picture but now she already gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

My family with Emilie and Larry John (Emilie's husband)

Tagaytay City

One of the shop's in the Park. My husband is buying a sword from that shop as a souvenir while my lovely daughters nag pose for the camera.

We are in the People's Park View here in Tagaytay City.Enjoying the view of the nature with my family.

The beauty of the nature

Enjoying the sunshine with my daughters.Sometimes my girls is complaining of too much heat and they sweat a lot.

Kaymig Restaurant and swimming

We ate our supper on this Kaymig Restaurant. Outside of this restaurant is small market wherein you will buy a fresh fish tapos you'll just give to to the restaurant kung saan ka kakain and just tell them anong luto ang gusto mo. The food is perfect.

As you can see May-may is all smile enjoying her pure buko juice.



















Their second buko juice . You can see the table halos ubos ang mga plato dahil masarap talaga ang luto nila.









Look at Quisha and May -may you can see on their faces that they really enjoyed the pool. We saw Marnie on the pool Ate Marilyn and Kuya Arnie's daughter, maliit lang talaga ang mundo. This pool is one of the amenities of the hotel.
We stayed at Manor Hotel, this hotel is superb. the staff are all friendly, nice and accomodating. The rooms are neat and tidy. Its really worth the money you payed for. So if you're looking for a hotel in Manila i really recommend this hotel.



Still on our second day of our holiday. My girls enjoying the pool eventhough it's raining.

Second Day July 19

It's our second day, what we did first things in the morning after we've done our breakfast we went to Duty Free Shopping Centre. We just bought chocolates for pasalubong for my loveones. I don't realize that chocolates at Duty Free is so expensive than here. But that's alright it's for my family and friends.
There's nothing so exciting we did on this day because we are still tired from our flight. After we did our shopping we went back to our hotel for a beauty rest while my husband and his brother are looking for some accessories for the car that his brother bought.

As you can see in this picture they are all blind playing the Rondalla at the Duty Free . Even thought they are all blind but they played marvelous. I think this is the only livelihood they've got.And you can see there's a small box in front of them and you can give any amount .

First Supper

After the show we are all starving. We ate our first supper at President Tea house located at Mall of Asia Seaside. The food is great at Pinoy na Pinoy talaga.

Quisha is enjoying the food. While May-may is concentrating on her food.

These are the food that we ordered. We ordered a buffet good for 10 persons as you can see grabe ang dami pala. We didn't even manage to eat half of these.

Our Arrival

On our arrival we just dropped our luggage at the Hotel and then we when to Philippine Gaming Corporation(PAGCOR) immediately because we are catching an INTERNATIONAL VARIETY SHOW . WE are so tired and hungry but we've got no more time to eat or else we can't catch up the show. But it's all worth it, the show is fantastic and it's breathtaking. And it's my first time to watch a live show like that. My children are so glad and amazed at the show.And one more thing it's for FREE courtesy of my husband's brother.

Our arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport and i'm so glad that i'm here again in my country. Just imagine hindi ko nakita ang Philippines for more than 4 years. So.im really excited and i can wait to go to my hometown and be united with my family. I can't imagine what their reactions when they will saw us .

The first word that came out from Quisha's mouth is "mum, i'm boiling" . We just all laugh . And i just told her this is Philippines at ito ang climate nila.Because she can feel that her arm is so sticky and she's sweat a lot.

MY husband's brother is the one who picked us at the airport.

This is my second daughter at her back is where we get our luggage

Philippines

We've got 2 stop over Kuwait and Thailand. It's 5 hours stop over in Kuwait can you imagine it,it's 5 hours. So,what we did we just roam around the airport and do some window shopping as well.Wala mi napalit beacuase grabe kaayo kamahal ang mga baligya.In Thailand it's only an hour and we just stayed inside the plane. And you know one of the passenger from Kuwait to Philippines is keep on shouting. Nabulabug na nga ang mga pasahero dahil sa ingay niya. She's speaking in aramic so.i ask one of the Filipino passenger who can understand arabic. You know what she told me she said nga giabuso daw siya sa iya amo beacause she's talking about money,take off your clothes. But i don't know what happen to her because binaba siya sa Thailand.I'm just praying that she's in the good hand in Thailand,i'm really feel sorry for that girl.


These pictures are taken at Kuwait airport

July 17,2008 is our flight to Philippines. We are all excited because it's our first holiday to Philippines as a family. And in fact because of are excitement we didn't sleep the night before our departure.

My husband family knew that we're coming home.We just inform them cause my mother in law has a problem in the heart so we don't want her get shock of our presence.

This picture is taken inside the aeroplane. Look at their faces they look so tired but excited.