Last February, on Valentine's Day (also Eliel's birthday weekend!) Y&E flew to Bacolod to eat. Because what else do you do in Bacolod?

We have been living in Manila for almost 10 years now. Ten long years. But not once have we tried one of the basic things to do in Manila, a food trip around THE Manila Chinatown. Well, it’s about time we end the long drought at 10.

When you read an article on a Friday morning saying that Baguio is experiencing the coldest temperature in the past ~50 years, the only logical thing to do is to spontaneously go to Baguio on that same weekend – which was also perfect as a getaway for Yza’s birthday. No preps, no plans because planning is for the weak. =)

When you get a free roundtrip ticket to anywhere in the Philippines, you book a flight that would take you the farthest, right? Well maybe not, but that's what E and I did. =p On our anniversary month (September 2013 -- 6 yearssssss), off to Davao we flew. :) All because a few months ago, we volunteered to be bumped off to the next flight in exchange for free roundtrip tickets. We've already done this a couple of times before. (We've learned that it's the easiest way to score free flights. Haha)

We scheduled this vacation early on, but we never really planned anything. What we knew for sure was that we wanted to: 1.)spend our first two days at the Pearl Farm Beach Resort, 2.) visit the Momfort bat sanctuary and 3.) eat a lot of durian and durian-flavored anything. The rest of our 4-day vacation was up for negotiation. So we made a reservation at the Pearl Farm via Agoda, showed up, and left everything to fate. It turned out to be the best decision we've made. It was all very stress-free and spontaneous.

Sharing with you the pretty photos that Eliel took :)

We had so many activities lined up last September to celebrate 6 years of being together – too many, in this post alone, already a hundred! (hehe. sorry, corny).

(Check out “Six. Still a Perfect Mix. Nothing to Fix.” for a rundown of the month-long activities.)

One of them was visiting The Hundred Islands. We have been looking for the perfect time for this field trip and finally be able to cross this off our Magagandang Tanawin list of places. It was just in the most opportune time that Yza had to open a Payless Store in Robinsons Place Pangasinan around mid-September – the stars aligned nicely!

"Can't count the years on one hand, that we've been together..."




First line pa lang, jackpot na. This song just perfectly describes where our relationship is now so we decided to cover this for our 6th anniversary post.

And yes, we are still into each other. Even after all this time. <3

Chinese takeout for two on a rainy Sunday. <3


xoxo,
Yza