After Thanksgiving Get Together

November 30, 2012

Thanksgiving came and went without my usual celebrating with family and friends but some other PCVs and I made a plan to meet in Tacloban after Thanksgiving for our own ‘after-Thanksgiving’ celebration.

yes that is a tower of beer we're having with the best ever meal at Ochos Grill

This was my first time to Tacloban, the capital and biggest city in Leyte, other than landing at the airport on September 19^th.
It was very fun going to a couple of different ‘coffee shops’. They have real coffee shops. One of them is called Libro. It’s a bookstore with great books, yummy baked goods and fruit smoothies.
They have mall with a cinema. We decided to go to a movie. The choices weren’t great but we decided to go see the latest Twilight movie at 4:00. When we came back it was ‘standing room only’ so had to make another choice? Trouble with Curves is a Clint Eastwood baseball movie with Justin Timberlake as the romantic interest with his daughter. It was an entertaining escape. When I’m sitting in a movie theatre I forget where I am.
We went to a place called Ocho’s where I had the best meal I’ve yet to eat in the Philippines. Fresh seafood cooked to order. Everything from the scallops, curried fish, fish in sizzling mushroom sauce to the decadent desserts was amazing. 

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