Tagaytay, villa Escadero, market market

Last Saturday we went to Tagaytay. It's about an hour out of the city and I guess the main attraction is Lake Taal and the volcano. Its a beautiful place with nice views and lots of fuit stalls along the road. The weather is much cooler than in Manila and Uriah found herself freezing.. I scored 2kg of Mangosteen for about the price of 1 mangosteen in Sydney.. what a steal. Pineapple, 20 cents a piece. The kid is the son of a family friend that we went with.

On sunday we drove out to San Pablo, a couple hours out of town. We went to villa Escadero which is sort of a Filipino cultural centre/resort that was established by the Escadero family (wealthy spanish-filipinos). It was nice but very much a tourist spot. We rode a caribou cart and ate lunch at the base of a man made waterfall. You basically sit at tables submerged in water that's ankle deep and eat as much as you want from the buffet... (All you can eat camote-que.. Tiffany!!)
Monday was spent doing more eating and shopping. We went to market market (yes, thats the name"market market") and picked up some food that you can only buy here in the Philippines. Got these Pili nuts which are native to Bicol and are awesome. They're soft like popcorn.

Last night we had a family gathering and ate some Lechon. I think we're considering vegatarianism in the future. Poor pig.
Just relaxin today.
- Uriah and Derek