Almost Christmas

If I don’t make sense at all, blame the white wine.

December 18, Friday, Manila time…
     First of all, I think I should say I am too lazy to read my previous post so if I am repeating myself, oh well.  I finally found a store that sold Wahl’s trimmers, and yeah, I think I mentioned that.  I don’t think I mentioned that I cut my own hair (my mom thought it was too short), my brother’s hair and one of my sisters’.  I’m going to leave the set here, and I hope someone learns to use it, so they can make the most out of the high cost of it.

This day was a bit disappointing.  I was hoping we’d leave early but the workers were here so that was not happening.  We just all went together, and we didn’t leave till after 3am of Saturday.  This day we did some grocery shopping, and I bought 3 liters of milk.  I finished a liter that night, and it made me fart a lot.  I was napping and I apologized for the first two, but figured that after those first ones I did not have to apologize for the rest.  It was sleep, fart, wake up…and repeat…about a dozen times at least.  I got the booze I am bringing home, so I got presents for 2 people right there.  Nothing much happened that day.

December 19, Saturday, Manila time…
     We got to Baguio and the house we were going to live in, sometime around 8 or 9, I don’t remember.  I know we rested a little, then we went to the Mansion and Mines View Park.  My best friend was right when he said I was going to be disappointed.  The place was too crowded, warm, and smoggy.  It used to be quite peaceful, cool, and clean…no more…too bad.  I think we ate all our meals at the house of the owners of the boarding house we were staying at.  I think we had all our meals at their house, actually.  We had a late start so we did not really cover a lot of ground.  I did remember that I couldn’t go to the main part of Mines View Park because of my fear of heights and uneven stairs with no handrails.

December 20, Sunday, Manila time…
     As much as we would have liked to do it, we did not have an early start on this day either.  We went to the Philippine Military Academy.  I was there 20 years ago so I don’t remember anything about how it was then.  I had to go buy batteries for my camera too.  I knew that earlier but that’s where my camera died.  Then we went to the Grotto…actually I think we went to the Grotto first…we did skip the first flight of stairs, but it was still very tiring.  I can’t remember.  I’m sure if I look at my pictures I’ll know, but I’m too lazy to do that right now. We also found a flea market full of (mostly) export-quality surplus stuff.  I got myself a couple of winter gloves for around $1 each.  I should have gotten more but I did not want to buy so much when I haven’t seen all the stores yet.  Then by the time I was done, I was tired, so I did not go back for more.  Also I was watching what I was spending.

We had lunch at the Forest House, and boy, was that yummy.  My favorites were the crab and mango salad with strawberry dressing, and the blueberry cheesecake.  But then again I am biased, I LOOOOOOOVE cheesecakes.

We rested a little bit, then we went to the market so my mom and my sisters can buy veggies and coffee.  I did not buy anything from the market because I did not want to spend any more money and I was tired.  We went back to the house, had dinner, and I went straight to sleep.

I did not meet up with my best friend, because I did not really want to take up any of his weekend, and I felt like we did not have much time to spare either.  I’ll just call him up later.  I think we left just before midnight, had a short trip and got here shortly after 4am Monday.

December 21, Monday, Manila time…
     I kind of knew that my mom would not be available to drive me around so I recruited my brother to go with me to the mall.  I did not like riding the jeepneys because of the pollution, but it was either that or staying home.  I got more clothes, some more suitable for the next trip out of town.  Of course I fed him for his efforts.  I’d already warned him that I was going to need him tomorrow too, so he shouldn’t plan anything.  He agreed.

I should really take a video of my youngest sis and bro jamming.  I heard them upstairs and they seem to play together well.  Well, the white wine is really doing a number on my eyelids, and I need to email DH.  So this is it for now.

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