Murphy's Law

Lucy has been living by Murphy’s Law, “what will go wrong, will”, since she was in utero and Tom and I have been serving a life sentence because of it (we love you Lucy ☺ ). When we spent many hours trying to predict the different ways that Lucy might be uncomfortable and inevitably give us trouble. We thought about crankiness on the plane, jet lag, separation anxiety, stranger anxiety, adjustment to new hotel rooms, and change in routine. It seemed we thought of everything and had all bases covered. There was a toy for almost every hour of the plane trip, her own plane seat, chocolates for the flight attendants, earplugs for nearby passengers, ideas of how we would structure the day, appropriate clothing, breast milk, pre-bottled milk, powdered milk, antibiotics, you name it, we thought of it. However, as law would have it, we didn’t prepare for TEETHING! Yes people, two new teeth that have been driving not only poor Lucy crazy but many of us. Nevertheless, she has been a trooper. A little baby Motrin goes a long way.

On our third day we drove to Tagatay in southern Luzon and is known as the second summer vacation capital of the Philippines (first is Bagio). We had lunch at Leslie’s Restaurant that was built along a cliff. Little Bahay Kubo’s served as dining areas for small groups. The view was the Taal Volcano. That night we stayed at the Taal Vista Lodge where Tom and I partook in our second Spa visit since arriving four days ago.
The following morning we decided to take a day trip to Calamba Laguna, home of the national hero Dr. Jose Rizal. Once we arrived in the town our driver began asking people where Rizal Park was. We asked about 7 different people all of whom gave us these perplexed looks yet continued to tell us where to go. No one gave street names (very Filipino). Everyone just told us to look for the big pot. After driving by numerous big pots, we arrived at THE big pot and to our left was the National Hero’s childhood home and museum…CLOSED for Independence day….sheesh….


*Pictures taken at Leslie's Restarant Overlooking Taal Volcano