Not Dead, Just Busy

We're still alive, I swear! Work has become incredibly busy for both Husband and I (he's already in the swing of taking field trips around the country to visit people in prison and check out dead bodies - sooo grateful for my nice, air conditioned workload!). Last weekend we attempted our fist vacay away from the city to Batangas, but we got snowed by a freakin' typhoon and ended up coming home a day early to avoid paying an extra night of hotel when we couldn't really access the beach (the resort we stayed at  was actually located on a cliff and had a boat that was supposed to take us to a private island with a beach, but no boats were running because of the typhoon, so essentially we were paying to stay at a place with a pool and bad food). The trip did not start out well because we foolishly tried to leave Manila after work on Friday. Lesson learned - Never drive in Manila on a Friday night!!!! It took us about 2 hours just to get on the freeway to get out of the city, then another 2 -2 1/2 hours to get to our destination, which is only about 70km away because it was late and dark with windy roads, no street signs, bad directions, and typhoon rains...well, getting there was not easy! We spent Sat lounging at the pool, which did have a water slide the kids loved, and swimming in the resort's  small diving pool with coral and fish that you could snorkel in. So it wasn't a complete loss. Plus the drive home was absolutely gorgeous. The cliffside towns with their colorful buildings and the fantastic views of the beaches at the bottom of the mountains was just breathtaking. I can't wait to take more of these trips, but I think we'll be waiting until our car comes and we can get someone else to do the driving (or just fly!).

On the health side, I'm just about 100% better. Husband, on the other hand has started having these weird heart palpitations. It was getting very frequent and kind of starting to freak him out, so he went to Med and they did an EKG and some other tests and then sent him off to St Lukes Hospital to get check out. He ended up having to wear a heart monitor around for a day to keep track of how often the palpitations to occur. End result: heart is in "fair" condition. Not exactly the big answers he was looking for, but the palpitations seem to have decreased since he's cut out caffeine and taken the other steps the doctors suggested. So I guess it isn't such a big thing to worry about. The best part about the whole situation was trying convince J and A that Daddy was not actually a robot. ("Is Daddy a robot, Mama?? Tell me for real!!")

We were planning to head to Subic this weekend but decided to put it off because I've heard nothing but lousy things about the beach there (not far enough away from Manila Bay to get away from all the garbage in the water :( I've heard Tagaytay is a fantastic day trip, though, so we plan to go there next weekend. We had a ladies night out yesterday and one of my girlfriends mentioned there is some awesome furniture at a place in Tagaytay, so who knows what we'll come home with! Anyway, here's some pics of our trip last weekend since I haven't posted a lot of pics lately.