MaryGraZel's Laguna tour

If there's such a term as bestest best friends I'll call these two women that! My friends since birth, Liezel and Grace, wanted to go around. Grace was here for a vacation, since it's sem break in their school in Saudi Arabia, and Liezel has a car and I know places, so, we decided to roam around Laguna. Our first on the list, to buy slippers in Liliw..Grace's pasalubong supposed to be but ended up buying for herself alone....women! how quickly they change minds!





Oopps I forgot, we have Lou in this trip also, coz he wanted to buy slippers to be sent to Dette in Bahrain, good thing he joined us, now we have driver, alalay, and kargador...peace Mang Lou!
 
and of course we are in Liliw, so, we asked the Balikbayan Grace to treat us in Arabella.


 Immediately after finishing our lunch of rice and porckchop and buttered veggies, we're now taking the desserts and coffee. Yummy! especially coz it's FREE =) Thanks Arabiana.



Before going home, I told them that there's a nice restaurant in San Pablo by the name "Kape Sulyap" so, we dropped by not just to see it but to taste also their pansit and mango crepe plus coffee again.

The following week, we again set a date...now in Nuvali in Sta. Rosa, Laguna....Liezel's first again! Her car is really a blessing not just to her and her family but to us her friends also....






Boating around the man-made lake of Nuvali

Mary

Grace

Zel 





Pasalubong from the Arabiana, our some sort of friendship bond....
 
Then after going around Nuvali, we had dinner in Paseo de Sta. Rosa in my favorite restaurant there, Kanin Club...

 
End the gala with a coffee in Starbucks =) next year we're planning to go somewhere out of Luzon....hopefully it will come true =)

Re-creation

CESD's team building in Caliraya Re-creation Center and Resort...
They have a lot of things to do there...check out their websites

Then, go down to check what we did there.....actually I just want to post this because I like my pictorials, I had fun posing for whoever has a camera =) see for yourself!







Not starting formally yet, coffee and chat first!



Then the game proper, we just did and won the mud slide competition, meet the winners: me, Pogs, Rica and Bas





Pictorials after lunch and during group's presentation






Pictorials before leaving the hall


Exploring around the resort with Kitin and Omar...the rest are everywhere...

Then, the pictures below are pictures of grown ups, since we are in a re-creation resort we went back to our playing years and see how fun it was to just enjoy....

Liam is that you?

Faye is that you?

Go Claire!

Go Thea!

Hurray for little Omar!

Hahaha for tiny Man =P

Man with....is that Kiko?

Look at the water girls...they're having so much FUN!!! Liezel, Emma, Tita Lolit, me and Bing...so happy!



Ah...two more?!?!?!



It brought us back in time, my best friend since birth, Liezel, chatting while doing the Pinoy slide....



After tiring ourselves in Pinoy slide, we still have a lot of energy for another set of pictorials




All time favorite...Jump shot!!!

Tabing Ilog casts.....or can also be Dawson's Creek casts =)




Dora the explorer!!!

This is my favorite shot....my officemate call this "Mary's virginal smile" hahaha

Photos taken by Man Marcaida, Kitin Samoy and Rech Angeles....