Friday, 9/11

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT!!!!! Today was Scott's 27th birthday! we slept in a little, then left the hotel around 11:30 to go to Greenhills Shopping Center, because we heard they had lots of cool native souvenirs and stuff. When we got there, i knew it was gonna be a a great birthday for Scott, because when we'd been getting ready to go, he;d said "Y'know what'd be the BEST birthday meal? Shoney's breakfast buffet!" and, while there are no Shoney's here, we did immediately encounter a restaurant called Flapjacks that serves giant breakfast platters with all our favorites, so that made for a very happy birthday boy! After that incredible meal we found the movie theaters and bought tickets for a movie i have really been looking forward to called Gamer- i knew it;d be something Scott would really enjoy since it was about video games and reality combined and so i was beyond excited to be able to see it on his birthday- especially since i didn't think it was coming out for a while yet. we went into the theater and immediately sensed something was wrong. the movie seemed to have started already. hmmm... after a few minutes we realized we were an hour early and the previous showing hadn't ended yet. OOPS! We spent the next hour exploring the shopping center a bit, and discovered that large chunks of it were a lot like D*Talipapa in the sense of there being tons of booths with similar products and people yelling for you to come buy from them. it was cool but kinda overwhelming! i did, however get a really cool Cell Phone case for P200 (about $4) before we headed back to the theater. The movie was awesome and these theater seats were the best we have had here, comfort wise! Afterwards, we explored the mall some more, shopped for souvenirs, Scott got to bargain some :-) and then, exhausted, we decided to head back to the hotel and rest up for the evening ahead. We got all dolled up and left the hotel at about 8:30 PM. it was raining pretty heavily, and there was traffic, but we had a really good and knowledgeable cab driver, and so our trip was about 20 minutes down to Seaside- the area home to a huge fresh seafood market and tons of restaurants where you take your freshly caught freshly purchased seafood and they cook it for you. immediately upon exiting the cab we were mobbed by people trying to get us to come to their restaurants- it was insane and overwhelming for me, but as usual, Scott was a cool customer. since it was raining, and we'd heard that the rest of our group was running late, we decided to duck in to one of the restaurants and grab a beer. i was feeling a little weak, so i ordered a couple crabs to hold me over till the group arrived- lunch had been 9 hours ago, after all! our group arrived at 10- it had taken them over an hour to get there, not having had a taxi as good as ours, i guess. They came bearing a cake! we had a cool experience watching them order all the fish for our meal at the market, and then it was taken to the restaurant/karaoke bar where we all filled a booth and the party really began! everyone was hemming and hawing about who was gonna sing first, so i did it. :-) i sang a lot actually... almost everyone sang, and the food was great, and we stayed till 3:30 AM, shutting the place down! We got home at 4:30 or so- after having to wait a bit to find a cab, and got into bed around 5:30. WHEW! what a day! Pictures in the next post.

Thursday, 9/10

today i rested a good part of the day, so that i could hopefully be well in time for Scott's awesome birthday weekend. by the time he got home around 7, i was feeling perked up and had showered and put on a dress so we could go out to the tapas restaurant. it was incredible again. i think Scott took some pics of our food but they are on his phone. i'm going to have to get him to copy all the pics from his phone onto the computer... we were totally stufed when we got back and just vegged out the rest of the evening.

Wed 9/9

Today was a sick day. in bed. all day. we got McD's Delivered for lunch, and then later, when Scott was feeling better he went and go roast chicken for dinner and we watched Blues Brothers. he is ready to get back to work tomorrow, and i am gonna rest up, because i don;t want to slow down his birthday weekend with being sick. We are doing Karaoke with his workmates to celebrate. not sure what else is up for this weekend.

Tuesday 9/8

Today Scott is still sick but went in to work around 11. Guess what. i am sick now too, with whatever he has. wheee! i made myself get up and do laundry though, and once that was done i went to sleep for the afternoon. ZZZZZZZZZ. Scott brought roast chicken home for dinner, and after some TV watching we read in bed till we both drifted off. ZZZZZZZZ

Monday, 9/7

Today Scott was still sick, and my throat was starting to hurt... so we slept in and he went into work around 1PM- i went with him! Today was Labor Day back home, and was declared a holiday here, but Scott's team was in the office working anyway- GO TEAM GO! Anyhoo, so i didn't wanna be away from Scott today, so i went with him to the office and took a book. about halfway through the afternoon we went out and bought everyone ice cream, cuz it;s an IBS tradition to do that from time to time, and that went over really well. We stayed late, because Scott and Darwin had many meetings :-) i spent probably the last hour or so talking to Donna- who i absolutely adore- while Scott and Darwin had meetings. then, around 9PM we headed back toward the hotel. Now, when it;s a holiday here, all the restaurants are either closed all day, or close really early, so our one and only option was McDonald's- no, not going into McDonalds- having it DELIVERED! So, that;s what we did- and it was still cheaper than McD's at home... even with the delivery charge.

Sunday 9/6

Scott haz a sick, so we just hung out and rested most of today, but we did have some excitement this evening. the Jabbawockeez were at Glorietta, and i love them, so Scott took me to see them perform. i have never ever seen so many people!!! 4 of the guys are Filipino, so that may be part of why there was such a huge crowd, but i'd be confident chalking it up to how awesome they are. i have bee na fan of these guys since they were first on ABDC!


There were people a-pushin and a-shovin and just insanity... but we still managed to have a great time!
oh, and i LOVE this pic! Scott is very happy to have Brunette Mae back too!
DJ Rashida (from America's Best Dance Crew- the competition the Jabbawockeez won) took the stage first, and then introduced Pop Sensation Billy Crawford- whose performance i enjoyed, but i was hot, cranky, and wanted to see the Wockeez!!!!




Then, after Billy did a few songs, FINALLY the Jabbawockeez came out!! no, you can;t see them in this vid. but they are there. we tried to get a good spot, but there were like 15,000 people there- no exaggeration. my favorite moments were the Michale Jackson Tribute and when the Wockeez did their version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" (which you can see them doing at another show here




And, finally, here is a pic where you can actually see the Wockeez- well half of them!
it was a super fun show, and i managed to see most of it by watching the screens on the video cameras of people in front of me. ;-) After being outside in the heat and sweat and people for 2 hours, we found a nice quiet table at TGIFridays and had dinner. MMMMMM Fajitas! then it was back to the hotel and relaxing till bedtime.

Saturday, 9/5

today we wanted a low key day, and Scott felt like he might be coming down with something, so we slept in late- like noon, and left the hotel around 1:00PM to go to Glorietta and see some movies and just kinda wander around. we started with lunch at Shakey's pizza, which was yummy and fun. we got the manager's special pizza and a combo platter of fries, wings, and calimari. Then, we wandered over to the movie theater and got tickets for a movie at 3, and another at 5:50. After the fisrt movie, we hada little time, so we went and got Caramel Frappucinos and then found this little boutique that sells clothes that celebrate the Philippines in a unique way. imagine high quality polo shirts, but with a map of the Philippines embroidered on them. or... here! see pictures!
After that purchase, we went to see the 5:50 movie, and then made a pit stop at the grocery store for fruit and hair color before heading home to chill out for the evening...