Pearl Farm: Pirates' Night!RAWR!!!RAWR!!!

We stayed in Pearl farm this time for 3days:) We really try to go there every year as much as possible to relax and enjoy the sea and the sand:) Below are pics, where we await our 130pm boat ride to the island:) We both had a quick lunch (Tanigue with steamed vegetables) first after a tiring morning from the outskirts of Davao.

On the first night, for dinner as a theme was pirates' night which started around 630pm. Roughly per person it was Php1000++ but it was all worth it!:) We had a sumptuous all time favorite Filipino feast of lechon, bulalo, stir fry seafood of your choice and a lot more! They also had a small show, bingo and a few games where we won a shirt(worth P250) and a gift certificate for kayaking(worth P440)!weee!!!:) Though we didn't win in BINGO...hahaha!!! It's almost worth it! Too bad my camera didn't have batteries to capture some of the show and games, but I was able to take pics of the arrangements and food though..yum!yum!:)

RAWR!!!RAWR!!!:-) We finished the program at 9PM. It was a real production and the cast really prepared and practiced their moves. I'm so proud of them even though I didn't know them:) hehehe!!! I was proud of them as other foreigners were watching their well choreographed and rehearsed skits and moves:) Go Filipino talents/artists!!!:) Mabuhay!

Note: By the way, the lechon was REAAAALLLLYYYY gooooodddd!!!! i could taste the full herbs and crispiness of the suckling pig:-) too bad for my diet!!!

Coffee Experience: Nestle Experimental and Demo Farm

Being a coffee lover myself, I was intrigued with the idea on how coffee is made:) So kim and I went to visit the Nestle Experimental Demo Farm in Magdum, Tagum City which can be reached via Davao. We met the very accomodating and uuubbbeeerrrrly kind Sir Eddie and Sir Ramon to explain to us the basics in coffee planting.  We learned that, with just our local consumption of coffee, only 40% are from local farmers and the rest are imports.  That is why, Nestle created this institution to help coffee farmers and future farmers to be encouraged to invest in this industry.

Here are some photos from seedling, to their mother plants, teaching area where they showed us how bending was done to allow water sprouts to grow and the area for the cuttings to grow roots.

We thought our visit was really productive and we learned a lot from NEDF. We hope we can return in the future as we start our new venture in coffee planting. So we could really say that we a truly coffee lovers!:)

Above picture is me with a little souvenir from NEDF....Hoping and praying that we can make it happen for us and our love for coffee:-)

This is the love of my life looking for what we'll do next in Davao. Davao is really such a nice place. We're hoping we'd be settling in here in the future:) We really enjoyed our vacation..till next time:)