It is the month of August and it is the time when Davao City celebrates its Kadayawan Festival. This year's Kadayawan Festival is surely a memorable one for me. I was really super busy going out with family, friends and guests.
It is the month of August and it is the time when Davao City celebrates its Kadayawan Festival. This year's Kadayawan Festival is surely a memorable one for me. I was really super busy going out with family, friends and guests.
August 22, 2008 - Was declared a local non-working holiday to give Davaowenyos time to celebrate the Kadayawan Festival. My family and I went to SM at around 2pm. We did a little shopping and left at around 3:30pm. By 4pm we were at Crocodile Park. We arrived just on time coz the show started at 4:30pm. We saw and even had a chance to touch some rare animals like the Palawan Bear Cat, Seawater crocodile, albino python, eagle. We also saw an encounter with a real huge crocodile named "pangil" where the caretakers tried to provoke the crocodile and some of the people viewing got wet when Pangil slammed his tail on the water as a reaction to the provocation. We also saw the caretakers feed the little crocodiles, and finally there was a tightrope exhibition. Below is the video which I have taken from my cellphone camera. I will be creating a slideshow later on of the pictures that we took from the camera of my sis.
From Crocodile Park, we proceeded to Rancheros and had a sumptuous dinner there. My nephew found the umbrella in my Mango shake very cute that he played with it and posed for the camera as he went around the table posing with every one while holding the umbrella up on our heads.
While we were eating, we noticed a group of people taking videos and pictures of the people dining in the place, including our table. Then I saw this bald guy who looked very familiar. I called the attention of my sister and asked if she knows who that guy was coz he really looked very familiar. All that she could recall was this guy had a travel show on TV. Then we overheard from the table beside us that his name is Joel Mendez. Ahh! the dermatologist Dr Joel Mendez! After dinner, we headed home and took a rest coz the following day will be another busy day coz the Aunt of my friend Angie and a friend of hers was coming over for a vacation.
August 23, 2008
I met up with Angie and her visitors from Iloilo. Good thing the friend of her tita has a friend here in Davao, and we were able to get a free ride. Our first stop was lunch at Penongs at times Beach, then we proceeded to baywalk where they had a chance to view the naked statue. After which, we proceeded to SM city. We went inside the mall first coz it was really scorching hot. After a strolling around, we went outside to view the Agro Industrial Trade Fair which was just in the parking lot of SM. There we saw an exhibit of landscapes done by the well-known flower growers in the city. Below is a slide show of the pictures of the beautiful landscapes.
From SM, we headed back to Pepsi Cola Village in Dumoy, there we ate snacks and rested for a while. Afterwards, we headed to Shrine Hills and attended Mass at the Shrine, then we proceeded to Jack's Ridge for dinner. After dinner, we headed back home, but Angie and I decided to go out and go to Gmall to check out their midnight sale. We were able to get a few good bargained goods and headed home at past 11pm already.
August 24, 2008
I woke up late! Really very tired after all those strolls around the city. At around 2pm we went NCCC uyanguren to buy a few items then by 3pm we proceeded to crocodile park. Yeah! In a matter of just 2 days, I am back at crocodile park. This time to guide the visitors. It was good that we arrived early coz we had the chance to stroll around the park and look at the animals before the show started. We left crocodile park at past 6pm and proceeded to Banok's along Torres Street to have dinner. Well unfortunately we had a bad experience. Our tinola and chopseuy was not served on time that we decided to cancel the order. They served the rice, tuna belly, lechon manok and pork liempo ahead. Our softdrinks was in fact delayed that we had to call the waiters attention about it. We were already done eating dinner and still our order was not served. The result? Well we faced their manager and give them a short lecture on how to serve their customers properly. Of course they always had an excuse... "pasensya na po kulang po kami sa tao at madami po customers" to which I replied "excuse me.. when we came in I made a comment.. oi milagro konti lang ang tao.." Oh well... we can only hope they fix their really bad system of serving their customers, or else people will stop patronizing them.
Tomorrow is another holiday! Thank God! I really need to take a rest.. Well we could have visited more places but it seems our visitors could not bear taking long walks.. ehehehe SOOA? (sign of old age). Lolz!
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