First week of February

This week we celebrated our 2nd anniversary after an excellent trip to Cebu. We brought back lots of dried fruit! The only downside has been that Colleen felt ill the day after we got back to Marikina. The good news is that there's a private hospital right down the road from us (walkable distance, and a 20 peso trike ride for Colleen and I). After a quick trip to the ER Colleen got much needed fluids from an IV drip and some anti-nausea medicine. That night she was on the mend, and although she's still under the weather today, I am happy to report that she is MUCH improved. I've been keeping down the fort so to speak by cleaning, cooking, and all the other usual stuff around here, including booking are return flights for the end of April. We were without our precious internet for a few days, so this blog update comes a little late, but hopefully it will be followed soon with some more substantive remarks. We're going to be creating another Picasa album that focuses on the food we've experienced out and also the many dishes that we make at home (you'll note for sure that these seem to all be featured in one large saute pan, yep, it's our main cooking source on the one burner but it works really well!) so stay tuned for this. No doubt it will happen once we're at our local Mall where the internet is speedy, the AC plentiful, and the movies a joy to watch.