After quite a long wait and yeah, grumbling for a month, finally, the Christmas lights at the village were up shining, shimmering and splendid! (Okay, that sounds too much already.) 
The Christmas lights came quite late this season. Last year, the gate was already glittering by first week of November giving everyone an early Christmas vibe. For some reason, the decor committee were delayed this year.
Anyway, better late than never. Still they did a fantastic job having the entire stretch of the highway lighted with multi-color lanterns that gave a fantasy-like look from a distance. I caught some photos of it after I visited Red from the vet’s hospital, beside a new clinic, which people say is managed by anaustin allergist. If you are from this area, you’d agree with me that everything in this corner has turned magical at night, and will remain that way for the next 30 days.
I didn’t expect to get into an early Christmas shopping after an early morning meeting on a holiday. Since I was done with all office errands as early as 9AM, looking for things to keep me occupied until 10 landed me to David’s Salon in Ayala and had my hair treatment. The current collection of Paper Dolls and Bayo either made me look old or too young like someone attending a high school dance. I couldn’t find something in-between until I came to Plains & Prints at Shangri-La Plaza Mall. And voila!
The latest holiday collection:
I was about to buy shoes at Rockport, which is currently doing a sale up 30% off. Quite a good deal there if you’re looking for christmas present ideas for him. But then again, there’s the nagging decision not to overspend. So I headed home thinking of ways on how I can recover my latest splurging. Then I passed by this neighborhood spa, and had a massage. I swear, with my muscles aching as of this writing, I will never come back to that place again. No one beats Manang Tonyang, the famous “hilot” (local massage therapist) in my place, who charges P50 for a back massage. She does it so well that you sleep like a baby at night.
The family was at Enchanted Kingdom last Halloween, to celebrate not the dead but the 4-day weekend. I haven’t been to the theme park for the last 6 years. So far, the management has not wrote off their list those rides I marked “scary” before – Anchors Away where I almost fainted and the Log Jam that sent my innards flying on air.
My brothers and niece were just laughing at me as I refused to get into those rides again. So I ended up on the ferris wheel. I have already lost that daredevil attitude. I guess worrying about exploding eardrums and breaking a bone are signs of growing old. So I ended up the trip’s photographer trying to get a shot of family members who went crazy over the Space Shuttle ride from those stainless steel barrels at the corner of the mega structure.
Nevertheless, that was fun.
