Days before Philippines....and start.....

So.....Saturday we spent a lazy day.....long cheese brunch with crispy bread....well....it was supposed to be crispy, but somehow my dad managed to pick the one loaf that wasnt crispy.....oh well...So i went with the german laugenbrot....made the bread decision easy....cheeses....like always huge selection....love it.....afterwards time to run some erranDs and then show Kim Monte Casino....ended up eating ice cream, pistaccio and cherry....not comparable to italian ice cream, and at the wine bar for a drink and then some more errands...day just flew by...dinner....turn n tender...i mean one has to try south african meat when here to visit....starters kim had some lamb tails....hardly any meat on them....so a little disappointed....but i knew the argentinian style meat should not disappoint.....me...of course fillet....kim chose sirloin...both argentinian style....amazing.....kim loved it...phew......and meat cooked to perfection....just love the parkhurst branch, cosy and intimate........

Sunday....played golf again...this will be my last time for a while..cause gonna go visit my sis and then its almost time to get back onto the ship.....so i was hopeing for a good ending....hmmmm....never mind....played a shocker of note....kim played well....so at least one of us.....but man....i played shockingly.....oh well...rest of the day was great so who cares....kim eNded up braaing for us at night....ostrich and lamb....app. lamb was nice....i wouldnt know....dont eat lamb....but the ostrich was great....Here some pics from the day.....

So.....time for the philiPpines has arrived....long flight to hong kong and then from there to manila where we would stay for a night before moving onto where my sister lives, cebu. Before flight...time for some bubbly at the lounge.....ate some dinner on the plane...watched some movies....arrived in hong kong....had a quick shower and cappuccino then onto manila where my sister met us at the airport.....off to her mom in laws flat...and then lunch.....something called shabu-shabu.....man.....was good....its like a meat fondue...broth and raw cabbage, mushrooms and carrots...cook it and dip in two different sauces....very good.....here is a pic of the shabu-shabu....

The one is a soya sauce based sauce, the other one peanuts...yummy...u also need to add three things into sauce, garlic, spring onions and some red raddish thingy.....yummy.....now...off to find a good cappuccino, or A least i hope and then to try on some wedding dresses and look for shoes.....cheers for today.....tomorrow....ill tell u about the rest of the manila trip......and cebu arrival......goodnite......

 

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