Last April, we had Visita Iglesia in Laguna. We visited the churches of Pila, Pagsanjan, Magdalena, Liliw, Nagcarlan, San Pablo.
I love taking my kids to the towns or provinces, because I want them to know and experience, even for a little while, what it's like to be outside the city.
Even they themselves love it because according to them, they get to see the things that they read about, especially animals.
The first time we took Gabo to Iloilo, he was three years old then, and he was awed when he saw a wall filled (not only full ok) with lizards. It was the wall of the church in Pototan, where during Christmas the town has a Christmas Village lighted only with Christmas lights and lanterns.
Two years later, with Rago this time, when we went back to Iloilo, they saw real carabaos, goats, and some kind of birds that you see in the ricefields.
In Tagaytay, they saw real horses, and in Bagiuo they rode the horses for the first time and loved it! In Intramuros, they first rode the kalesa (horse-drawn carriage).
When we went to Siquijor, it was their first time to ride a boat then a ferry boat. They savor these trips.
Now going back to our Laguna trip, this was when they saw a horse burdened with things. They felt sad for the horse.
It was also their first time to see rice grains being dried on the road.
And it was their first time to taste small doughnuts that cooked in oil and wrapped with sugar. It's their version of sugar-raised dougnuts. :) They were even more surprised when they found out that the dougnut cost Php1.00 each. I bought 30 pieces, and they ate them all in less than 30 minutes!
"I love it mom! Sana bumili tayo ng madaming madami. Piso lang naman eh," Rago went. LOL.



























