Strolling around historic Manila
We spent a day touring the historic part of Manila. We visited Intramuros, which is the oldest district of the Philippines. Way back when the Spanish ruled the Philippines they built a wall to protect the city. Within those walls they built houses, churches, schools, and everything else they needed to sustain life. The Philippines […]
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Our stay at the historic Manila Hotel
The first hotel we stayed at in the Philippines was the Manila Hotel. It’s a five star hotel built right along the bay. Lots of famous people have stayed there (including President John F. Kennedy and The Beatles) and it’s the site of many national political events. We got fresh mango juice as complimentary welcome drinks. […]
Getting around in the Philippines
One of the most exciting and challenging parts of our trip was figuring out how to get around. We tried so many different types of transportation we thought we’d devote a post it: Jeepney Jeepneys were originally introduced into the country after a bunch of US military jeeps were left behind after WWII. […]
Filipino adventure!~
We finally took our much-anticipated trip to the Philippines. We stayed at the nicest hotels we’ve ever been to as well as the worst hotels we’ve ever been to. We had some amazing food and met up with awesome people. We saw the world’s smallest primate (they’re monkeys about two inches tall!). We saw an […]
Black Friday 2011
Another Black Friday has come and gone, and we have some stories to tell. The in-person Black Friday shopping was disappointing, but we got some sweet deals online (I’ll talk about those at the end of this post). We wanted to buy some things from Wal*Mart, but apparently so did everybody else. The freeway was […]
Fall time deals
Another surplus sale! Lake Washington School District had a surplus sale, so naturally we had to go. We woke up at 6am and stood in the cold for an hour, but it was worth it! We ended up getting a fairly new projector for $25, a big box of tessellation tiles and blocks for $5, […]
If shopping were a sport…
It’s that time of the year again–deal time!! We decided to do a warm-up run before Black Friday just to brush up on our skills. Then we did our infamous Black Friday series; and we even added some more deals that we don’t normally do: food! We actually didn’t have anything we really wanted to […]
Birthday madness
It was my birthday last week. I’m 26 and I’m really feeling the effects. Despite my quickly aging body, we were able to go out and do some fun stuff. REI had a “garage sale” with tons of heavily discounted items. We got there half an hour early and there was already a huge line. […]
Vegas!
We took a trip to Las Vegas for my cousin’s wedding. It was a really fun trip, but the heat and dust was ridiculous. We found ourselves planning out where we were going based on where there would be air conditioning and how hot it would be. We decided to try some fancy hotels out […]
Cheese coming out of our ears
When I was in college, there was a sweet deal on cheese so I got four pounds of it. While I was in the store, I ran into some friends and they said, “WOW! Look at all that cheese!” Here’s a picture: So we were grocery shopping yesterday and we saw a SWEET unadvertised deal […]