I know I mentioned before that living in Baguio City is like being on vacation all the time. But since I decided to run a bed & breakfast inn, everybody’s vacation time is when we work the hardest. Personally, I hardly took a day off for about 3 months and was on call 24-hours a day. And it’s during the off season that we in the hospitality industry can take real time off.
If you thought Camp John Hay could not get greener, you haven’t tried CHOCO-LATE de Batirol yet. Tucked away in Scout Hill is a quaint garden-kitchen that affords each party privacy, relaxation and remembrance of good things past.
This year April showers came in May, and May flowers are still abloom in June. Summer 2007 came to a close when the school year started yesterday. Although Atenara is still pretty much booked for the weekend, with Balikbayan guests just starting their vacations, and with Koreans coming by the planeload for crash courses in English, Baguio’s “low season” seems to be in high gear, with traffic jams all over the city, and lots and lots of people on the road.
A friend of both my sisters’ was over last weekend — funny, funny man Mel Garrido, who emceed a ritzy wedding reception at the country club. He cracks jokes, deadpan, in the middle of serious conversations. While recounting his sightseeing activities last Saturday, he remarked,
I met three pine trees as I was walking and asked how they were.
The first replied, “I’m pine!”
The next said, “I’m pine, too!”
The last one said, “I’m pine tree!”
Save the Baguio Pine Trees, please sign the Petition to Declare Baguio a Heritage Zone!
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