Well since I am on here blogging for my mother's birthday I figured I could do a short blog about our recent Philippines trip.  It was a very busy trip as we were doing wedding stuff the entire time except for the last day when the typhoon came in.  It was a low level typhoon so nothing too exciting, but we did lose power all day (which they call a brown out over there).  I had never heard of a brown out.  I am only familiar with a black out (as in it gets black when there are no lights becau...
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Hey all, Ronna and I are in the Philippines again.  We just got here a few hours ago after catching a red-eye.  We were met at the airport at 4am by her brother, sister, and the driver.  First thing we did is drive to Taal Lake on the Batangas side and check out Shercon Resort as a possible wedding venue.  On the way we stopped and ate Jollybee, the Philippines national fast food chain.  I had a sausage and egg pandesal sandwich.  I liked it except for the mayo, but now I know to ask for no m...
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I just got some more pictures from our trip to see Ronna's family and I thought I would share a few more with you all.



This is Ronna's Grandpa, Isidro, who is 88 years old.  He is such a cute, sweet man.  You can just tell by his smile.  Anyways, when he first met me he pointed at my nose and then his and told Ronna that someone in the family finally beat him out for pointiest nose.  Each day when I would see him I would offer my respects and he would just give me the biggest smile ever.  In t...
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Hey all so this past weekend we went to the Philippines so I could meet Ronna's Family.  We had a great time.  Everyone was so nice to me and we ate lots of good food.  Here are some of the pictures from our trip.  On Saturday night they had a potluck at Ronna's house and a lot of her family showed up (which is easy for many of them since her house is in a complex of four houses that all house different family members.  Anyways, here are the pictures.



This is a picture of her immediate family ...
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From Feb 3rd to the 7th I was on a short vacation from my vacation.  I went to the Philippines and then back to Singapore, which is where I am currently.  Anyways, I went to the province of Bohol in the Philippines.  I flew into Tagbilaran City via Manila and then went to Alona Beach on the island of Panglao.  Here is the exit from the airport to Tagbilaran City.



I stayed at Dumaluan Beach Resort on Alona Beach.



The first day the water felt cold, but then the rest of the days the water was nice...

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