Since my long pending plan to do ziplining in Camp Sabros, North Davao or in CDO is still pretty much pending, I went for a quick fix and did ziplining in Tagaytay instead.

 

It’s been two weeks since I told Bubba that there’s ziplining in Tagaytay.  Sunday, we were at Edsa Shangrila for Karie’s 1^st birthday celebration.  Karie is the cute baby tot of Anne and Drew.  We were enjoying our buffet lunch at the Garden ballroom when I asked Marie and Butch their plans this weekend.  They said nothing concrete but told me they are planning to visit the Mango outlet as well as other designer brand outlets in Pampanga.  Bubba and Jim were getting their desserts during this discussion.  I suddenly blurted out about the ziplining in Tagaytay and asked them if they wanted to go after the party.  They shared my excitement and were game about the idea!  We arranged to meet an hour later in Magallanes, just about enough time to get a couple things and allowed me and Marie to change from dresses to jeans.  Jim said yes too and before you know it, we were on convoy to a Tagaytay trip.

 

The travel was short, an hour and half later, we were in Tagaytay parking our cars.  Upon seeing the zipline area, it took us a good 15 minutes to actually decide whether to go for it or not.  I’ve only tried extreme (not so extreme) sports overseas, parasailing in Malaysia and Sky Jumping in Macau.  I will include the rollercoaster in Ocean Park HK because that was also crazaaay for me.  I went ballistic over the sky jump and rollercoaster but parasailing was a walk in the park (ahem, right.)  But the thorn on my throat is, how safe is it to try terrifying stunts like this in the Philippines, manned by us?  Thank God, it’s safe enough when we tried.

 

Ziplining is P300 per head for roundtrip and P200 for one way.  If you go one way, you have to walk back using the bridge, which wasn’t too bad a walk.  It’s additional P100 if you want your photos taken by the crew.  The crew was nice like how most of Laguna and Tagaytay people are.

 

After ziplining, we made a quick stop at Rowena’s for pasalubong.  It’s Jim’s first time to buy from Rowena’s, while I confirmed that it’s really one of the better quality pasalubong stores.  Then I treated my friends to a sampling dinner at Sanctuario Tagaytay.  I’ve only tried the one in Metrowalk but never the original branch.  Good to know that my friends enjoyed their dishes.  We ordered their 2 Pan de Sanctuario bread with 3 kinds of pate: Quezo, Garlic and Smoked Fish, Bulalo with Pasta (always a winner to me because of the bone marrow and sinful creaminess), Tuyo Rice and Adobo Flakes.  I should have ordered their Sizzling Bulalo as well but was worried that we won’t have room for another dinner at Kanin Club.  Sanctuario Tagaytay was a teaser to whet their appetites satisfying enough to hold out til we hit Sta. Rosa.

 

The only time we’ve tried Kanin Club was during the Pink Kitchen event this year.  Bubba really liked the Morcon he ordered and was looking forward to eating at the actual restaurant.  Currently, they only have two branches –Alabang and Paseo de Sta. Rosa.

 

We reached Kanin Club around 830pm and it was absolutely packed!  We were the second big group waiting in line for an available table.  Since it’s past dinnertime, it wasn’t long before a table was vacated.  The menu had an extensive list of mouth-watering dishes to take a crack at.

 

More on Kanin Club on a separate post (interesting twist on Filipino favorites: Sinangag na Sinigang, Crispy Diniguan, etc… and finally I can scratch off one more resto in the Miele Guide list!)

 

Jim was so great with Joyce!

 

I really had a wonderful Sunday spent in breezy but not too cold Tagaytay breathing fresh air, trying a new activity and bonding with my sister Joyce and friends.  Whoooweee!!!!

 

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Sunday morning, Bubba, Tabs (Joyce my cutesy sister) and I drove to Fort to walk Chili, Jam’s beloved dog.  We played catch at the same vacant spot where we played Frisbee before.  It started to drizzle so we transferred to Bonifacio High Street.  When we got there, the drizzle stopped.  Since the two are heavy lumbers, I was the one who ran with Chili.  We kept running and running until she had enough exercise (although Chili is a she, I was referring to myself). 

 

Krispy Kreme was our stop for our morning breakfast.  Sweet sugar loaded doughnuts early in the morning and steaming hot chocolate –that’s what you call power breakfast?  So powerful that 2 seconds into the rush, Bubba had sugar crash.  We ordered the usual of original glazed and Bubba’s favorite Hershey’s treats while we also tried the new Reese peanut butter doughnuts.  I am a total Reese girl, but the peanut butter taste was a bit milder than expected.

 

Around lunchtime we headed over to CPK Greenhills branch.  I got a Chicken Adobo Pizza coupon from Blog Bank that I decided to use that day.

 

On the Table:

 

Spinach Artichoke Dip PHP 625

Spinach and Artichoke dip served hot with blue and white tortilla chips.  One of the usual appetizers ordered whenever at CPK.  The chips this time around were quite smaller than what’s served in their Shangri-la branch.  This appetizer was one of our conversation pieces on the table that day.  We were trying to figure out what’s artichoke in Filipino.

 

 

Mediterranean Salad PHP 355

A chilled salad of cucumber, red onions, fresh tomatoes and greek olives.  Tossed with crisp Romaine leaves in lemon-herb vinaigrette, served on a bed of creamy hummus.  Topped with feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and Tzatziki sauce.  Served with 2 slices of pita bread.  This is the dish the majority agreed on that day –tug of war on portions. 

 

Goat Cheese with Roasted Peppers PHP 515

Mild goat cheese with roasted red and yellow bell peppers, grilled Japanese eggplant, Mozzarella cheese, caramelized onions, Italian parsley in tomato-based pizza.  Goat cheese and roasted peppers on pizza –what can go wrong? 

 

Kung Pao Spaghetti PHP 255

A classic Kung Pao sauce with garlic, green onions, peanuts and HOT red chilies

 

Chicken Adobo Pizza

I didn’t get to try this but my sister Joanne and Bubba seemed to like it better than the goat cheese pizza.

 

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