Days Tagaytay

We arrived up here on the local bus for very little and seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Basically this town is along a ridge up a mountain with the road to Manila teeing off it. It is a place very spread out along the ridge with the lovely view of a lake below. We stayed at a really sweet and fancy little hotel with friendly staff and a beautiful garden area with a swimming pool. Meals was in her element swimming twice a day, sometimes even three. We chilled out for a few days ...

... Aguinaldo hi-way There are talking birds that entertain the guests in the garden ...

Week 54 August 8th This is the second last day in El Nido. The bikes have to be returned on 9th. In all honesty I have no recollection of what happened today or tonight. It could have been the best day of my life but I can't remember... August 9th Sad to wave goodbye to El Nido. Its not the liveliest of places but a really nice chill spot with just enough going on at night to keep us occupied. Of course two of our bikes wouldn't start so for twenty ...

... night, I found myself laughing pretty good in some scenes and being weirded out in others, nothing like I remembered from when I first watched it. Last night it was flipping between "October Sky" and "The Guardian" I guess I was in that whole, "let's go make a rocket" to "let's go save people" mode before I headed off to bed. My Pet Rock wanted a picture ...

... re cursed" or however that bit of dialog went. In either case I left Festival Supermall tonight with the M90 still having the video card problem. I did stop at the Save More to get some cleaning supplies and to start the stocking up process of the Cup of Noodles so that I would have something to snack on at night. Back at the flat I was tooling around more with some things ...

Had a pretty nice view of the sunset yesterday before I shut the blinds so I had to take a couple of shots just for the album. Of course, I also had to throw in the items that I purchased while at the grocery store on Saturday minus the can of bug spray.

... behind it and slight higher. B - The "volcano" itself is enormous: Taal Volcano is located about 60 km SSE of Metro Manila. It is a complex volcanic system composed of a small volcanic island (Volcano Island), which has been the site of almost all historic activity, located within a 20x30 km lake-filled complex Caldera (Taal Lake, in older texts also called Lake Bonbon), one of the great volcano-tectonic depressions of the world ...

This is what happens when you're away from home for too long and your not right in the head. No, I wasn't ...

... destination in that part of the country what with the presence of many pools and resorts all over the place. Some popular weekend destinations include Dioko Resort, Kay Inay, Villa Amante, Countryside Spring, Villa Escudero, and Star Lake, to name a few.

Some of our closest family friends happen to hail from San Pablo City so I already had a vague idea about the place that stands out mainly because of its seven lakes — ...