The Tao of George

Greetings to everyone in the U.S.!  I’m from the future!  Yes!  I am speaking to you from January 1st while you have yet to experience New Year’s Eve!

All silliness aside, we arrived safely in the Philippines and have since been happily kept busy catching up with relatives.  We’ve only hung out with my Auntie Glory and her family so far, but today we’re taking off for Tarlac for some pre-wedding (one of my cousins) festivities of some sort.  So we’ll be seeing the rest of the relatives on my mother’s side.  I haven’t seen everyone else that we’ll be seeing later today since I was… 12?  Man, haven’t been this excited in a while.  Can’t wait to see  everyone.

While everyone had some downtime my cousin and I hit the gym nearby.  It was nicer than the 24hr fitness gyms I normally go to.  A lot cleaner too!  Damn you ghetto 24!  We washed up, came home to eat for a bit then hit the mall/market to exchange some dollah dollah bills for pesos and to do a little shopping.  I picked up a little turtle backpack and 3 decks of pokemon cards for less than $12 total for my godkid.  Score!!

New Year’s Eve was pretty ridiculous.  In a good way.  I would have probably enjoyed it more if I hadn’t insisted on powering through without sleep, but I managed.  My uncle bought a bunch of rockets and these loud fiery bangy things and my cousins went nuts setting them all off.  It was great.  All up and down the streets fireworks were going off and horns honking.  There was so much smoke from all the fireworks you could barely see the sky – but it was still really REALLY fun.

Of course, someone had to go and set something on fire so you could hear fire engines in the background as they rushed to whatever  it was that was set ablaze in all the festivities.  We were all ok though.  My mother and aunt tried to call our other aunts and relatives afterwards – and I passed out.  Exhausted.  But pretty happy.

Miss the gf and my dogs though.  Speaking of food, among lots of other good food, I ate a cooked jellyfish last night.  I’m going to try to keep an open mind about the food here while I visit so I’m going to try whatever I can – within reason of course.  Jellyfish wasn’t half bad.  Almost kinda chewy.

Tags: personal, pi trip

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