Filipino finale...

The last day of our Philippine trip ended with Ivy and her dad picking us up from the bus station and telling us to spend our last night at their vacation beach home.  Once again, this families generosity was endless and we arrived to the cutest little beach cottage fully stocked with a plethora of fruit, snacks, beer, and coconut jam, just for us!  If you ever get a chance to go to the Philippines, you must eat some mangos.  They are unlike any mango in the US.  They are rich and creamy and perfectly sweet.  Before the day’s end, Ivy and her dad treated us to coffee and Filipino desserts at their family coffee shop and then to dinner.  Desserts like this should always be before dinner- coconut pie, custard pie, and a sort of puff pastry.  And now I leave you with these thoughts.  Would you ever invite a stranger on your family vacation?  Treat a foreigner to dinner?  Have a person you met for the first time stay in your vacation home?  We’re so thankful this family did all the above for us and then some. I’ve learned a good lesson about hospitality from this experience that is outside of the American norm.  Perhaps you did too!
(apparently we were having so much fun, we forgot to take pictures, sorry Ivy and Isobelle!)