gone for the weekend - day 2

goodmorning La Union! our second day (may 2) and it was a beautiful morning for Oliver to ride the waves...yey for him! we had coffee at the resto to start our day and before we laze around. finally Oliver started his surfing 101 with a local guy --the "paddle" and "tayo" was the basic and in less than an hour he was able to ride the wave. while we were watching him from a far we enjoyed the waves too, it was cool being slapped by the powerful waves and i was hoping River would swim.

contemplating our next moves...

goodmorning La union, more photo ops...

riding the waves! paddle, paddle and more paddle and finally he made it! btw, surf lesson + surf board is P400.00/hour. Billabong Surf School does group session headed by Luke Landrigan of course.

lovebirds, sweethearts...

La Union coastline is clean, and i admire how the local folks maintain this surfing ground.

foursome! friendship that rocks!

before 10am we were already out the water and preparing to check out by 12noon. so after getting dressed and a little more photo op we drive straight to Midway Grill for the second time to have brunch...

homey and comfy cottage at Sebay was worth staying.

at Midway Grill, the boys ordered for Grilled Squid again (P169.00 for 2 big squid, garlic rice and buttered veggie) while Minerva and I ordered for the all day breakfast --American Slam (P110.00 for 2 pc sausages, strips of bacon, hash brown, scrambbled egg, and toasted bread), Ultimate Omelette in photo (P149.00 big big omelette heavily filled with ham, carrots, potatoes, mushroom and a lot more, hashbrown plus slices of toasted bread). it was so fulfilling to dine here and how can anyone resist the bottomless iced tea at rock bottom price (P35.00).

at 2pm we were driving north to visit my in-laws and Minerva and Carlos had fun travelling this far for the first time...i wish we had more time so we can drive further,

at Tagudin, we have to cross this hanging bridge since the river water was no longer passable.. we forgot that Carlos had fear of heights but he instantly get used to this adventure.

a little taste of Ilocos for Minerva and Carlos...

after 2 hours we bid goodbye to Nanang and Tatang, and went ahead to Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur to buy some seafoods. unfortunately we were not able to buy any squid so we bought yellow fin tuna for P130/kilo. a big yellow fin normally weigh 3kls...we're back on the road again and planning to have early dinner at Midway Grill but instantly changed plans when we passed at Riverfarm in Baroro, Bacnotan.

dining al fresco style at Riverfarm, we ordered for Riverfarm Hotpot P270+ (local sinigang with crabs, squids, shrimps and fish), Riverfarm Medley P250+ (grilled bangus, tilapia and pork, steamed okra and pako and seaweeds), Grilled Squids P170.00 and Dinengdeng P70.00. If you wish to dine at the floating kubo you have to pay an additional P50.00

before 8pm we were already at San Fernando Lau on our way to Manila, passed to this line up of store that sells dried fish in Damortis... i did not buy anything at all, Minerva bought some dried squids for pasalubong and that's it all we wanted now is to be home safe and sound..

at Damortis, La Union

we could have reached NLEX by 12:30am but Carlos felt bad when we were at SCTEX so we could not drive any faster that 40km and we have a few stop over before finally we hit the north diversion road. we let Carlos took a nap so we ended with a cup of coffee over chitchats at Caltex service station and finally before 3am we left the couple and went ahead.

at 2am we were still very lively at NLEX, coffee sippin!

Oliver and I reached home around 3:30am and with no buts and ifs we went to bed. tired and so so sleepy! it was one of a kind weekend for all of us, again thank you dear Lord for giving us a wonderful sunshine all through out this trip --with you all things are possible!


Footnote: what we missed during this road trip, visit at Ma-cho Temple in SF LaU, side trip to Luna LaU, and Alilem Ilocos Sur. be back soon!