Philippines Memories
Trip Start
May 07, 2012
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Trip End
May 30, 2012
Taipei, Taiwan
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
forget while waiting out our layovers:
"Would you rather sleep with a cockroach or a bear cat" - we saw both!
"Please tell me that's fake? Pleaseeeeee!!!!" - Allyson after seeing a spider in
our house the size of a basketball
Papa Smurf (Ernesto) taking a sponge bath on the living room couch
The cats - Fighting, mating, chasing rats
"eeeeessSpike" - Leah's call for the dog
"A cockroach literally just fell on my toothbrush. On the brush part!" - Gabby
PARA!! - Getting off the Jeepney
Tap, tap, tap your coin - stop here on the Jeepney
Ali-on - Please (to pay your fare to the driver)
A smooch noise (my personal favorite) to have them stop
Pasahy - fare
"You need to choose the right man, not the left"
- Ate Joy giving the girls relationship advice at the dinner table
"I don't have a problem with you Heather, you eat." - Leah referencing that
Allyson and I hate her food
"So it's like a soft touch?" - Gabby questioning what kind of massage she's
about to get
Bucket showers or "taking a bucket"
Hand washing laundry literally takes 3 days!!
Crazy driving, winding roads, near head on
collisions, packed Jeepneys (42 people! Was our most), tailgating
You know if your van driver says "SH*T" your in trouble
Cafe Lucia
Bliss Street Bakery
Truth or Consequences and I have never games
Tennis at the Seventh Day Adventist Church parking lot
Fighting crabs at Digyo Island
Tuba wine (made from coconut)
Falling on slippery floors and rocks, and tripping - this country is dangerous
Coleslaw and cheese sandwich at Max's
"Where are you going?" "What is your name?" "Hi Friend, Cousin, Girl, etc..." -
all common phrases called out to us
American music - Top 3 songs they played non-stop all day, every day...
"What makes you beautiful" by One Direction
"Call me Maybe" by Carly Ray Jaspen
"California King Bed" by Rihanna
Many 1st's for the girls:
Flight - Allyson
Motorcycles - Many of us
Doing sutures, giving immunizations, circumcisions - All
Zip lining - Allyson, Heather
Walk around an entire island - all
Kayaking - me!
Pedicab rides
"Lizards are dinosaurs of 2012" - Amone, nurse in Pastrana
Banka Killer!!! - Spike as he kills a cockroach while we're eating dinner
"You have a text message. Just a tiny text message and you should read it" -
Goofy voice that played a 1,000 times a day when Leah got texts.
Names we were were called:
The Spice Girls
Foreigners
Americanos
Why Joe
"Did you sleep soundly? Or sleep with sounds?" - Papa Smurf asking how we slept
My bookmark, papers and shoes being eaten by mice in my room
"After the girls leave I'm going to have to take eeessSpike out on a date I'll
be so bored - Kim
The Oracle game
Baby girl in Palo
The corn salesman arriving to the clinic to weigh his corn on the infant scale
Cockroach in ear guy
"Do you know Jessica Sanchez?" - Jeepney Driver referencing the American Idol
candidate
TV news and shows obsessed with Jessica Sanchez and Lady Gaga
"I love lemons. Heather said to drink water and I must obey." - Anna
"I'm trying to get all the coughs out. You guys are not being nice. I'm not
sleeping in that tent with you guys. I'm going to stay outside and be your
guard." -Gabby in Canigao Island
China tea
Typhoid Mary - Gabby getting sick during our trip
Aryana - evening sitcom
Fiestas
Circumcisions on coffee tables
Carabou, goats, horses, rats, cockroaches, ants, centipedes, chickens, worms,
mice, spiders, cats, big frogs, flying lizards
The "Tuesday" night
Karaoke on the bus in Manila
Bugs, Boracay rum, singing, no piņa coladas, screwdrivers with no orange juice,
your friend needs coffee, face slaps
Favorite foods of the group:
Shakey's Parmesan garlic fries, frozen drinks at Bo's, everything at the bakery,
all the local tropical fruits, spring rolls, Thumbs Up! Ice cream, Twirl Berry
yogurt, ice cream sundaes at Ate Joy's, fried chicken, quesadillas at Mex it Up,
fried carrot fritters, Bliss peanut butter, fresh juices, goldilocks treats,
beer towers, Tanduay Ice, bitter melon, beef & onions
