Powers Family Philippine Biyahe: April 2011

Just a quick post to catch everyone up on what we have been up to the last couple of weeks. First, we celebrated St. Patrick's day the best way we know how with our fellow American ex-pat friends. We had Irish chicken and dumplings, green jello, sugar cookies with green frosting, and green corona with limes. It was a lot of fun. But it was a little sad that none of the Filipinos knew what St. Patrick's day was or why we were celebrating. I was trying to explain to our housekeeper that I was wearing green because I have Irish decent and he then proceeded to say he didn't think I looked American. He said he knew my beauty was different and that must be because I was Irish. I didn't take the time to explain that I was actually American, but with some distant Irish blood. But anywhoo we made sure that we were all wearing green and enjoying the day even though none of the locals were.

The next weekend we were invited to one of the supervisors at Andrew's work home. This was a lot of fun also and it was the first time we were invited to a Filipino home. They fed us some traditional Filipino food which was also great because we haven't actually had a lot of that believe it or not. Liam had a great time also because they had three kids who doted on Liam the entire visit.

Liam being fed banana and mango by two of the kids.

This was a proud moment for Andrew. They had a bunch of toys for Liam, but he went straight for the toy porsche and began pushing it around. Then he didn't want anything to do with the other toys the rest of the night and he cried when we took it away to leave. Perhaps Andrew's love for luxury cars has been passed through our gene pool : )

Otherwise, we have been out and about with our friends Maria Elena and Isabella like usual and not too much more. I will post a couple of pictures below. Most recently this weekend we went to Tagaytay with Andrew's team at work. This town is famous for Taal volcano which is one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines, but more interestingly the volcano rests in a lake and there is also a hot lake inside the volcano. We visited a country club and played some games and enjoyed the cool air of the mountains. When we arrived it was raining and the fog was so bad we couldn't even see the volcano at all, but by the drive home we were able to at least see it in the distance. We are planning to go back there some time soon and make the volcano tour our main attraction. After our visit to Tagaytay we all went to Andrew's manager's house for dinner. Again we got to eat some authentic Filipino food and Andrew, found some new favorite spicy dishes. We had a great day but it was a long day, and now we are recovering from a busy day. We are resting up because tomorrow Papa Don & Grandma Pat are coming to visit! We are so excited to see some familiar American : ) faces! Until next time...Take care!!