Daily Report: Fruits Of My Labor

I got a little extra sleep and had a light morning of work.

For lunch, Epril and I went out to Candy's Café at the outdoor plaza in the Limketkai shopping plaza. It was a nice place, and the menu selection is really good, with pesto pastas, a nice selection of meat dishes, a crepe menu, burgers, pizzas, salads, et cetera. The food was pretty good, but nothing we ordered (broccoli soup, a ham and cheese crepe, beef stroganoff) was anything award-winning. The service was a bit slow, and I think the prices were a tad high. I would recommend it if you aren't allergic to spending a little money: Our lunch bill was 765 pisos plus tip.


My attempt at home decor.After lunch, Epril and I went to Ororama for the afternoon, where I spent about 7,000 pisos on some shelves, kitchen and bar supplies, a bunch of glasses for when guests come over (wine glasses, martini glasses, beer glasses, and such), and a couple dozen glass vases and knick knacks to add a little decor and color to the living room. (Right now, without any decor or lived-in touches, the place has a "college-dorm common room" feel to it. All it needs is a Budweiser bikini girl Nascar poster and a desk with empty pizza boxes on it, and the effect would be complete. So, this is my first addition to making the house look occupied in a semi-permanent fashion. Wall hangings and plants and curtains and such are coming soon.


My favorite restaurant, "Town".At 8:00 tonight, it was out to my favorite restaurant in Cagayan, "Town", which is almost directly above where we had lunch today at Candy's Café. We were joined by Mike and Marissa Turner, and their friend from St. Louis, Don, who is in town checking the place out and hoping to meet somebody special. (Single ladies in the house say "hell-yeah".)


Mike and Don, two internet gurus
finding paradise in Cagayan.We drank pitchers of The World's Best Piña Coladas until the restaurant ran out of rum. We had garlic mushrooms (90 pisos), a Waldorf salad (120 pesos), some grilled beef (120 pisos), osso buco (340 pisos), teriaki chicken (180 pisos), a pumpkin bisque (90 pisos), and to top it all off, a slice of carrot cake (which neither Epril nor Marissa had ever tasted before). Total bill for 5 people was 2,900 pisos plus tip.

After that, the 5 of us went to Pulse for a little while and listened to the band play. The girls danced a little, and we had a few beers. Then, at about midnight, it was home to bed.