THUNDERBIRD RESORT: bloggers tour day 2

It has been exactly 1 week today when the bloggers tour took place. And it made me melancholic to remember. hahaha. I already miss Thunderbird Rizal. I miss the bed, I have never slept in a bed that soft before---not that I am a stranger to mattresses but theirs is nothing I have experienced before---not even in the hotels in Manila that I have tried. I have never slept as comfortably as that Monday night---exactly a week ago that my alarms even failed to wake me up. That's how peaceful I have slumbered. So if you ask me about the Thunderbird experience, 1st is the bed!!!

..............2nd is the food of coarse. All we did is to relax, laugh and eat and eat , and then eat again.The 2nd day was really good. We started with a good breakfast in KOI Restaurant.

L-R; Ms prinz, Ms Nica, Don, Dave, Azrael, me and gael..

.Chyng already left when the photo was taken

 Koi Restaurant

Thunderbird Resorts boast of this ASIAN-inspired restaurant . It's one of the three restos the Resort has, one is the Cabana by the poolside and the other is in Fiesta casino where we spent dinner the night before. And so it is---heavy breakfast, since it's going to be a packed Tuesday for all 6 of us.

Immediately after breakfast, we were given the chance to learn a new skill. Just refer to the pictures below and you will know what I mean.hehehe. All I can say is that it's fun---but a little complicated, lol

wanna bet?

We learned how to play card games here. The actual game. less the real bet of coarse. The rules are kinda complicated at first, but you get the hang of it.  Game of chance one might say, so some might think there's no need to learn the rules, wrong. If you are going to put your money on the line, don't you think a little understanding of what your doing is just fair? Well, i don't see myself playing casino in the near future, but who knows? lol

Too bad time was lacking coz we already have to set off for our next destination---The Angono Petroglyphs!!!

the tunnel to the Petroglyphs....

Since moving to Binangonan last year, been dying to get here. But until last week, I didn't know how. I was surprised that it is just a couple of kilometers above Thunderbird Resort -Rizal. I will be writing in detail about this next time so as to guide some of you who are interested in historical sites like this. 

The site is under the administration of the National Museum and upon putting our names in their log book, we were told that dslr's are not allowed. Only digital cameras. huwwwaatt??? I really don't understand. I was so pissed off. Welcome to the Philippines!!! Dslr use/ policy in this country really is incomprehensible sometimes!!! Anyhow, we manged to take guerrilla shots.

and hear me national Museum, what's wrong with promoting this place? 
Or maybe you don't want it promoted eh???

So it goes, the hike for a few meters was a good thing coz breakfast has left us soo full. We had to digest some of the food coz our next stop was Balaw-Balaw, a specialty restaurant in Angono.

..........and when I say specialty restaurant, I mean exotic dishes.  kamaro, sizzling balot, sinabawang balot, nilasing na palaka, uok.....food that I have never heard of before. I am not so much into experimenting with food so I stayed with the safe/ generic ones, while my fellow bloggers indulged in the exoticy of what Balaw-balaw has to offer. hahaha

 

wouldn't you want to eat in a restaurant like this? 

What I like about this restaurant is the special feeling you get. It's unique setting gives a different vibe. A restaurant in a museum. That's how I can describe it. Angono is known for the Higantes festival and in balaw-balaw, they capitalized on the Higantes masks as the main theme. Please look out for a detailed post on this one soon.

Next stop was YAB DESIGN near downtown Angono. It is well known for hand-crafted 3D statues and replicas. the house of Versacci actually open a Versacci Home Boutique in Milan last April and featured there are exclusive creations of Yab designs. Found out that this place os owned and managed by a Dutch. We were given the privilege to tour their vast gallery but too bad cameras are not allowed so I can't share with you much expect to say that the designs are really impressive----and expensive too!!!lol

the only I photo I managed to take---in front of the factory of Yab Designs.lol

Blanco museum was next.Still in Angono. But I had to go back home to attend to something very imprtant so I decided not to join them anymore. I took the jeepney and headed back to Saint Monique.  Ms Nica was kind enough to allow me to skip for a few hours. What I heard is that the remaining bloggers were awed by the collections in the museum. I will surely visit this one day soon with my wife. They headed back to the resort, had a 15 minute massage at night---which is part of the services you get from your accommodation. they also used the 300 pesos with of single roll bet coupon given to us the morning during the casino session. 

The 3rd day was more of a relax relax mode, eating and chatting in the poolside and again in KOI restaurant for lunch where we ordered what we desired to eat. The whole Thunderbird bloggers tour was really a very memorable experience.  To admit, it was my first to participate in such contest and I was lucky to have chosen. I think this will be a start of more contests for me to join.

Again, thanks Thunderbird and thanks Nica ( there, I just called you Nica) for giving us a good time......... and for the friendship.......



BTW: I would to make a special mention to CHYNG for telling me about this 
promo. If not for you I was not here. thanks a lot. Owe you one!!!!
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