Days 12-14 The Date

After our trip to Palawan it was time to relax in Manila with the family for a couple days. We didn’t do much during the day besides go to the mall, but of course we went out at night. This is probably a good time to explain about the family we have been staying with while we’re in Manila. Alex’s mom Louisa owns the house, but her youngest sister Clarissa, her husband Joel, and 3 daughters live there. The three girls are K.C. age 10, C.J. age 13, and Janine age 17. They’re cousin Bheng (her real name is Jiezzele) also hangs out with us a lot. Her mom is also Louisa’s sister and they live down the street from Clarissa in the suburb of Manila called Pacig. These girls have been great with showing us around and hanging out with us. I have so many fun stories about all of them that would just take too long to cover in a blog.

However, one story worth telling here is when I took 3 of the cousins out on a date. Alex has taken a liking to one of Janine’s college classmates and wanted to take her out on a nice date so I decided it would be a good idea to take C.J., Janine, and Bheng on a date the same night. Unfortunately we were going out for drinks afterwards so we could not bring K.C. along. 13 year olds apparently can hang out at the discos in Manila, but 10 year olds can’t. Go figure. I decided to take them to the Hard Rock because that’s one of the nicer restaurants in downtown Manila and they serve American style food, which I was craving. The girls didn’t know what anything on the menu was and they wanted me to order for all of us. They told me to get something I like that they probably have not tried before so I decided that we would all share some fajitas and gourmet mac and cheese.

The meal was great, but the girls didn’t eat much. I guess the tortillas and pasta noodles filled them up fast because Janine said it felt like she just ate 4 cups of rice after one fajita and a scoop of mac and cheese. Of course I should mention that none of the girls weigh over 100 pounds so it doesn’t take them much to get full or tipsy for that matter. I also ordered Bheng and Janine mojitos because I knew they never had them before. Of course Janine got buzzed after just a few sips of hers, which was pretty funny. After dinner the Baja Girls were performing so we had some drinks and watched them perform a couple of sets. They are like a want to be version of the Pussy Cat Dolls, but they’re skills are probably equivalent to Tila Tequila haha. It was pretty funny.

Alex and his date Carmela met up with us at the Hard Rock after their dinner and watched the second set with us and then we decided to go somewhere else where we could dance and have more fun. The night ended a couple hours later after a lot of dancing and a little bit of drinking. We got home around 2:30 a.m. and everyone fell asleep watching a movie. We spent the entire next day just hanging out and sleeping. That was fine with me and Alex because we needed a day off before we left for Boracay the next day.