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January 16, 2007
The Great Pinoy Adventure -Day 2
J and I ignored the knocking that went on the entire morning. Didn't JM say that we could sleep since we had a tiring road trip the day before?
When we finally got up at 9am (only!), the house was bustling with activity. JD was telling Uncle Jerry one of his many stories, JM, Auntie J (JM's sis) and Aunt Hilda (the very old domestic helper) were cooking. And J and I just rubbed our eyes and walked towards the breakfast table. Here, I realised that one of the reasons I can never like Filipino food is because of the constant appearance of coconut. And being the polite houseguest I was, I stuffed into my mouth or quickly sneaked whatever coconutty breakfast I could to J. Luckily J was my very willing accomplice. :)
And so we were heralded to go for a walk on the beach. It was Christmas Day after all, families were back to visit, children did not have to go to school and nobody's working at all. So the beach was crowded with people swimming and basically just chilling. When we say "crowded" in the countryside, it is probably considered sparse in the city.
So it was a simple day. We walked a long way on the beach - we went back to the house for lunch. We took an afternoon nap, we went to the sea for a swim. We took an evening nap. We had dinner. We went to the town centre to look at the Christmas lights.
J and I were beginning to get real bored. But I was sure JM would think of some adventure for her city-son.
And I was beginning to get used to showering with well water....
Posted by lainey at January 16, 2007 05:31 PM