mabuhay!

Well its been a couple of days. After a really fun day of traveling (from phoenix to LA to Seoul) we finally made it to Manila. Our hotel wasn’t all centrally located like we thought it was, but it was a nice place. We waited for Catherine’s mom to drive up and we took a day trip to Angeles, where Catherine went to high school, former site of Clark Air Force base. We came back to Manila and met up with a couple of Catherine’s friends from high school, one of whom is an actor and a dj and several other things. Coincidentally he was performing that night in SPIT (Silly People’s Improv Theatre), a Manila improv group.

We woke up the next morning to solve our travelers cheque dilemma (as in no one will accept them here–as in I got laughed at a couple times trying to cash them at Filipino banks), hit the Mall of Asia on the way out of town (largest mall in Asia!) and we were on the road to Bicol (an 11-hour drive) with Catherine’s mom and her driver.

I woke up this morning in San Vicente to a rooster cock-a-doodle-do’ing and it was awesome. We spent the day in Catherine’s mom’s beauty salon getting Catherine’s hair rebonded, with a massage and pedicure for myself.

We’re going to cook about 10 pounds of vegetables now that we bought for the equivalent of 3 dollars

Stay tuned.

fake Manny Pacquiao billboard.

the aircon in the car broke and we had to give it a freon pick me up. “Take a picture of this, they don’t have these in the States” said Catherine’s mom.

me at mall of asia eating thumb-sized corn flavored ice cream!!!

this is rap-rap catherine’s godson/brother. he really likes spiderman.