The Girls in Boracay!

The Mom is super tamad right now to blog! So I'm just sharing some photos of the girls from our recent Boracay trip (June 16-19)!


Yum!

Enjoying Boracay sand!


picture-picture in our super nice room at The Tides!

Bitin ang 4 days / 3 nights! :D

Hot Air Balloon Festival

Here’s one event your kids should not miss: The Hot Air Balloon Festival that happens every year, usually around Valentine’s Day, in Clark Freeport, Pampanga. It’s a four-day event that features hot air balloon flights, paragliding exhibition, aerobatic flight display, etc. Entrance fee is PhP150 but kids 3 years old and below get in for free.

Sofia brought her camera along to take pictures and patiently waited for the gigantic balloons to fly high up in the air. We left Quezon City at a little past 3am and arrived at Clark at about 5:30am. The balloons started to fly at around 6am.

Tallulah amused us with her crazy antics. :D

After all the balloons have gone up in the air, we set up the tent we borrowed from my sister-in-law. We stashed all our things inside and ate our baon burgers. The weather was okay - a bit cloudy, not so hot, and sometimes drizzlin’ – but the tent just made everything perfect.

Then we had ice cream. Food concessionaires are everywhere but I suggest you don’t let the kids eat or drink too much unless you don’t mind them using the portable toilets available in the area.

When things get boring or when the kids are not anymore interested with the shows/exhibitions happening around, you can buy a kite for PhP70 and teach the kids how to fly one.

Tallulah, always the go-getter, impatiently waited for her turn to fly the kite and learned fast.

Sofia preferred to watch and later roamed about the place (with her Dad).

Good times! My balloon shots are here! :)

Las Casas Filipinas De Acuzar

We brought the girls to Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bagac, Bataan last Saturday because we thought the girls could use some vacation before the schoolyear starts this Tuesday.

We stayed overnight at Binondo House. Here's Tallulah patiently posing for me in the Master's bedroom, munching bread on the stairs leading to 2 more bedrooms and a spacious azotea, and playing with the harp in the sala.

That's Sofia walking (not yet on her Daddy's shoulders) during the guided heritage tour and sitting behind that capiz window in the Master's bedroom.

The girls enjoyed the pool, as usual. They ran around the entire place, watched DVDs when they got bored, and played sungka in the reception's office.

Good times! View more photos of the place here and here.

Palawan!

...super long overdue post! :D

The girls spent a whole week in Palawan last, well, Holy Week, swimming either:

at the Inflatable Pool......or at the beach (that's The Dad in the photo). - love, love, love this pic!

Good times!

The Girls in Baguio

January, I think, is the best time to visit Baguio, because (Christmas) holidays are over and Penagbenga (flower festival) is still a few weeks away, and hence, the place is not too crowded and traffic is not so bad. It is also the coldest time of the year in Baguio...brrr...

Okay. So this is, for the girls, always the best part of our Baguio trip - horseback riding! Not for me though. I hate the smell of horses' poop. Oh well, whatever makes the girls happy. Now, the stairs going to The Mansion was a challenge for Tallulah because she doesn't really like walking or running - she prefers sitting on her Dad's shoulders (just like what happened last year). This time, she made it to the top with her Dad just holding her hand, yay! :DMines View. For PhP50, we were allowed to take three (3) pictures of the gang with these big doggies (using my camera). These cute dogs are soooo heavy! We brought the kids to Tam-Awan Village hoping that a 'little hiking' would tire them since the place has several trails which they could climb and explore. Well, they didn't get tired. We (the adults) did. :DStill in Tam-awan, we had the kids sit for like fifteen (15) minutes while local artists draw/sketch their portraits for PhP100 each. The portraits didn't look exactly like them but the kids not running around (almost not moving!) for 15 minutes was almost like ART. :D We also explored Camp John Hay, bought the girls' favorite, ube jam, at Good Shepherd and tried strawberry ice cream at La Trinidad.

Till next time!

Zoobic Safari and Ocean Adventure

Thank God for the holiday (Nov. 30), we were able to bring the kids to Subic and spend some quality time together. Our first stop was Zoobic Safari. It has a huge collection of tigers, which is actually the zoo's main attraction. They also have few birds and rats (eeew! hehe) and other 'usual' animals.

By noontime, we were already at Ocean Adventure. It was soooo hot and humid! Sofia slept during the last part of the Dolphin Show. Tallulah and Wacky didn't finish the Sea Lion Show. Plastado lahat. :D

Then we stayed overnight at By The Sea Resort, which is about 10 minutes drive from SBMA. We had no reservations so we were lucky to get one (1) decent room by 7pm. The place is located, well, by the sea (hehe) and it also has a swimming pool, which all made my girls' day despite the chillin' water and cold weather (hey, it's Christmas time!).

We had a little duty-free shopping the next day before we headed back to Manila. Good times! :)

Click here for more photos! :)

One Afternoon at Enchanted Kingdom

So after having lunch at my brother's place, we decided to bring the kids to Enchanted Kingdom. Eat and run, haha!

The entrance fee for adult is PhP500, ride-all-you-can. If you’re a government employee, you get 20% discount, so you’d only pay PhP400. They have this 'driver’s license promo' for PhP350 only. Kids’ entrance fee is PhP320, but free for kids less than 3 feet. PhP150 entrance fee for unlimited carousel ride and access to Bumbling Boulders and Boulderville Express. These two rides, we later found out, were just some kiddie rides.

We paid PhP320 for Sofia. No entrance fee for Tallulah, of course. Danny availed the 'driver's license promo' because somebody had to accompany the kids in the challenging rides..hehe. The rest of us paid PhP150 each, and we all enjoyed the carousel ride, kahit masuka-suka na ko, hehe, and I thought my brother would pass out, haha! (photos here!)

The kids had fun, and that’s all that matters.