Swept Away.

I bet I’m the last one to post about this. I’m such a slacker with my blogging these days.

Anyway, my boys and I drove south two weeks ago to meet my Twitter buddies. It’s actually a long planned meet up with an indefinite date since the meeting depends on the arrival schedule of our December shopping loots from Boston (through the kindness of our dear friend Glo). Hubby, Asher, Yayay and I set out at exactly 9:00 am and our destination: Sonya’s Garden at Alfonso, Cavite. Side kwento: I didn’t have a tough time persuading the husband to join/drive us there because I wished that this’d be my birthday “pasyal” (since we weren’t able to go out on my birthday). Also, it’s been a while since we last visited Tagaytay so that weekend was the perfect time to do so.

Two hours later, we reached Tagaytay and ate merienda at Jollibee Rotonda first. We then braved (because it’s our first time to go to Sonya’s and we’re clueless of its exact location) the highway towards Alfonso. And with watchful eyes and with the help of big signages, we reached Sonya’s Garden just in time when the gang was about to enter the resto. We devoured leafy and healthy foods like salad, pasta and cake while chatting away. It’s our first time to eat there and for once, we were like goats..(hehe..just joking!)…this is the first time that we ate a 100% real-healthy-all-vegetable meal. Hubby and I will definitely come back here soon.

As photography is one of our common interests (aside from digiscrapping, shopping and twittering), we wandered around the garden and took shots of everyone and everything. The kids enjoyed playing and posing in front of their folks’ cameras.

We retreated after a while, got our loots and decided to go elsewhere. Asher fell asleep as soon as we boarded the van on our way to the ranch beside Hotel Vista where horses can be rented for a ride. But since we wouldn’t want to wake him up and considering the traffic we were to toil along SLEX, we decided to head home instead. The rest went horse riding and the pictures are proof how the kids had a blast albeit the afternoon scorching heat and even without equestrian apparels. If not for the heat, we could have stayed longer too and joined everybody even while the little one sleeps. On the other hand, we were still lucky that we went home early because we toiled SLEX for 3 hours on our way back home. The traffic was so bad even before we got to the SLEX highway. Thanks to Colette’s buko pie, chocovron and the sweet corn that we bought along the highway vendors, munching them drove my sleepiness and boredom away.

Eventhough we spent just a few hours with them, it was still one sweet afternoon to cherish and of course, a must repeat one. Can’t wait to meet again these girls and their families. See you soon girls!

More pictures here.