Monthly Family Get Away!

~FEBRUARY, 2011~
Lance gets one long weekend a month so we can travel and see more of this part of the world. I will do a post for each trip we take. For the month of February we went over to the island next to us, to a city named Cebu. It's nice cause it's only a 40min flight. We have been there before and love it. It's very westernized and is much cleaner and more organized than our city. I talked about some of the things I was hoping for in a past post titled "High Hopes". 

We were pumped up and ready for our family get away. We went to the new S&R store (aka Costco) straight off the plane. Oh it was so nice, it was beautiful! It smelled clean, looked clean, organized, and things were familiar. We got our membership ($14/year) and we were off. It was such fun! We slowly went up and down every single isle taking it all in. We took turns letting out  little screams of joy when seeing and finding certain items we miss. "Hey Look!, Hey come check this out!, WOW I can't believe they have this" were all common phrases. We found many great "Food" treasures between the 3 grocery stores and few health food stores we went to throughout the weekend.

Here is lance with his case of "Black Cherry Cola" in glass bottles that he found. He slowly drank, and enjoyed them over the next 4 days.

Here are some of the things we found. I sure some of you will find it rather amusing...as these things are simple and very common for most of you. We had limited space and weight because we flew, but we managed to get everything in. Favorite Items of each family member were: Lance: Honey bunches cereal and Black Cherry Cola. Bobbi: Nice big loaf of pure country Rye Bread (LOVE the stuff) as well as cheddar cheese. Isabelle: Mini Wheats, hands down. She has had at least 2 bowls a day since we got them. Scarlett: Everything, it's all new to her and it's all good!

We spent a lot of time at the pool and in the gym, working off all the food we were pigging out on! The gym is really nice, complete with steam rooms (my fav!) and saunas.

 

I forgot Isabelles swimsuit so we had to rush out to the nearest department store and pick one up. Here it is, $6 later and she was in love. She loves to wear dresses and skirts and would wear one everyday if she had enough of them. She was very happy to have found a swim suit with a skirt attached!

 

 

  

 

  

Eating grapes

Eating at TGI Fridays a yummy, must visit, on any trip to Cebu.

Oh yes, the "Yellow Cab Pizza" This is our very favorite Pizza place. We actually have one in our city and we eat there once a week. We couldn't miss our weekly "fix" so we brought it back to the hotel for dinner one night. It was delicious! 

I realize that 90% of this post is about food. It's kind of weird but it's like the normal food, food we would be able to readily find back in Canada gives us comfort. It takes the edge off the homesickness that we both feel. Lance made the comment, more than once this weekend, that we should expect to go through a bit of a weight gain period once we get home....just to be able to have this yummy, wholesome food available to us at all times could be slightly dangerous for bit. Overall we had a wonderful relaxing weekend as a family filled with swimming, shopping, sleeping, watching movies, exercising and EATING!   

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