Friday - Tagaytay and a Camel

On Friday we took a trip out of Manila to Tagaytay to see the Taal Volcano, zoo, a palace that was never finished by Imelda Marcos. We stopped by several roadside stands, for directions, some to buy fruit. Good thing Rhea was with us or we would never have known what some of the fruit was. Only thing I consistently recognized was pineapple and cocunuts. I'll give it to Sydney she tried almost everything Rhea gave her unless it involved intestine lining, bone marrow, brains or heads of some varied animal. Sometimes it was only a taste but she did try.

We stopped by a small roadside zoo in Tagaytay. The boys had been cooped up too long and needed to run a little. Ha! The place was small so they couldn't go too far except for the side that plunged down a jungle cliff (again Mike's parenting of "they'll only do it once" was vetoed and they were banned from that area.) Any way they'd run from animal to animal about 2 areas ahead of us. Unfortunately I was worried as the kids could actually reach over to the cages within reach of the tigers, lion, one very unhappy monkey and an array of birds with beaks the size of my hand, so there was a lot of me saying no don't touch. Well as kids tend to think Mom doesn't know what she's doing (in any language) Lucas was 10 steps ahead, rounded a corner and up until this time was pretty fearless that is until he turned that corner and came face to face with the world's ugliest camel. I think he may be able to broad jump for the track team as we're pretty sure he cleared 15 feet straight back. Needless to say he was behind one of us until we left the animal area.