We have just arrived from a short visit in Dipolog. On Sunday we left for Dipolog at 12:30 pm arriving an hour later. The weather was nice and cool in the afternoon and wet and cold at night. Little did we know that there was a storm brewing somewhere to the north. We had a late lunch at the Sunburst restaurant below Hotel Camila. Met my Uncle Totong there - he's the person my brother has entrusted to get the building permits for the development of the commercial building in my mom's property. That evening we attended the English service at the UCCP church there. It was an English service but the sermon was both in Visayan and English so Peter and I had a difficult time understanding some of the words. For dinner, we shared a huge durian fruit and a large marang fruit. YUM YUM!!!
On Monday my Aunty treated us to a Jollibee (like McDonald's) breakfast. Then we all went our separate ways: Aunty to get her residence certificate and senior citizen ID, Peter to check the internet, and while I returned to the hotel room and get some zzzz's. Lunch time we went to Jo's Chicken Inato. It rained hard while we were there. Aunty Nemia's (my Aunty from Seychelles who's married to an Austrian diplomat) driver picked us up from Jo's to bring us to her property in Minaog so Peter can meet the property owner Mr. Antonio Luy who's selling the 2 hectare property adjacent to Aunty Nemia's. While Peter went with the men to check out the property and locate the "muhon", Aunty Prossy and I stayed and talked story with Aunty Nemia. It rained later that afternoon just after Peter and the guys came back from their trek. We had to wait a little longer for Mr. Luy to return from renewing his license and to bring the caretaker who knew where the other corner of the property was. Aunty Nemia's property is so windy and sits perfectly on the top most edge of the ridge facing the ocean. It was so refreshingly cool and breezy. By 5 p.m. Mr. Luy came back with the caretaker and Peter went with them again to find that "muhon". It was already dusk when they returned. At least the rain stopped by that time.
Anyway, after seeing where the four corners of the property were Peter has decided that this property wasn't the right one as it wasn't located on top of the ridge facing the ocean, just like Aunty Nemia's, but facing the valley and was much lower than where we walked the first time so the temperature there was more humid than cool. At least this trip helped us to realize where we should put our priority - the beach property in La Union.
That same night we got invited to dinner at the Kamayan ni Manay in Dapitan. Aunty Prossy's old friend from Church, who was married to an American from Seattle and has a beautiful house in Turno, treated us there. We had sinigang na hipon (shrimp on sour soup), grilled nokus (squid), inihaw na baboy (grilled pork), inihaw na lapulapu (grilled lapulapu fish), and a huge durian fruit for dessert. After dinner manang Alice Brace toured us around Gloria De Dapitan - a complex filled with shops, restaurants, amusement park, bowling place, cockfighting arena, etc. We only drove around the place as we were all tired after eating the sumptious meal. Manang Alice otook us back to the hotel at almost 10 p.m. that night.
This morning Aunty Prossy had to continue following up here senior citizen ID while Peter and I just hung out in the hotel as it was raining hard outside. We left the hotel around 9 a.m. to go to the market and buy fruits (marang, mangosteen, lanzones) to bring back to Manila. By 11:30 we went back to Jo's Chicken Inato for an early lunch before going to the airport.
We left Dipolog at 1:45 p.m. and arrived Manila by 3:15 p.m. It was quite a bumpy ride but thank God we made it back safely. We took the airport coupon taxi which is thrice as expensive as the regular taxi BUT is much worth it as the driver will definitely bring you to the destination even if it's far.
Now we're back in Lagro we went straight to packing our stuff for our trip to Bacolod early tomorrow morning. Aunty Prossy has so much stuff to bring that she's still packing as I write this post. I will have to end this here for now as I will need to wake up really early tomorrow.
Next post will be in Bacolod. Goodnight!
On Monday my Aunty treated us to a Jollibee (like McDonald's) breakfast. Then we all went our separate ways: Aunty to get her residence certificate and senior citizen ID, Peter to check the internet, and while I returned to the hotel room and get some zzzz's. Lunch time we went to Jo's Chicken Inato. It rained hard while we were there. Aunty Nemia's (my Aunty from Seychelles who's married to an Austrian diplomat) driver picked us up from Jo's to bring us to her property in Minaog so Peter can meet the property owner Mr. Antonio Luy who's selling the 2 hectare property adjacent to Aunty Nemia's. While Peter went with the men to check out the property and locate the "muhon", Aunty Prossy and I stayed and talked story with Aunty Nemia. It rained later that afternoon just after Peter and the guys came back from their trek. We had to wait a little longer for Mr. Luy to return from renewing his license and to bring the caretaker who knew where the other corner of the property was. Aunty Nemia's property is so windy and sits perfectly on the top most edge of the ridge facing the ocean. It was so refreshingly cool and breezy. By 5 p.m. Mr. Luy came back with the caretaker and Peter went with them again to find that "muhon". It was already dusk when they returned. At least the rain stopped by that time.
Anyway, after seeing where the four corners of the property were Peter has decided that this property wasn't the right one as it wasn't located on top of the ridge facing the ocean, just like Aunty Nemia's, but facing the valley and was much lower than where we walked the first time so the temperature there was more humid than cool. At least this trip helped us to realize where we should put our priority - the beach property in La Union.
That same night we got invited to dinner at the Kamayan ni Manay in Dapitan. Aunty Prossy's old friend from Church, who was married to an American from Seattle and has a beautiful house in Turno, treated us there. We had sinigang na hipon (shrimp on sour soup), grilled nokus (squid), inihaw na baboy (grilled pork), inihaw na lapulapu (grilled lapulapu fish), and a huge durian fruit for dessert. After dinner manang Alice Brace toured us around Gloria De Dapitan - a complex filled with shops, restaurants, amusement park, bowling place, cockfighting arena, etc. We only drove around the place as we were all tired after eating the sumptious meal. Manang Alice otook us back to the hotel at almost 10 p.m. that night.
This morning Aunty Prossy had to continue following up here senior citizen ID while Peter and I just hung out in the hotel as it was raining hard outside. We left the hotel around 9 a.m. to go to the market and buy fruits (marang, mangosteen, lanzones) to bring back to Manila. By 11:30 we went back to Jo's Chicken Inato for an early lunch before going to the airport.
We left Dipolog at 1:45 p.m. and arrived Manila by 3:15 p.m. It was quite a bumpy ride but thank God we made it back safely. We took the airport coupon taxi which is thrice as expensive as the regular taxi BUT is much worth it as the driver will definitely bring you to the destination even if it's far.
Now we're back in Lagro we went straight to packing our stuff for our trip to Bacolod early tomorrow morning. Aunty Prossy has so much stuff to bring that she's still packing as I write this post. I will have to end this here for now as I will need to wake up really early tomorrow.
Next post will be in Bacolod. Goodnight!
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