Rest and more rest before the big flight

Day 14: Wow!! Two whole weeks in the Philippines. Can you believe it? I'm totally adjusted to the time change. My stomach is finally back on track. And I'm even feeling comfortable navigating around the mall without an escort. I'm not even noticing that I stick out among the crowds of people. What am I going to do with this new found confidence and comfort level? Get on a plane, screw up my sleep schedule and go back to my normal life of a Spanish speaking gringo. And I couldn't be happier. Of course it's always easy to go back home after being away for so long. On this, the two week point of my trip, the whole day was devoted to rest, eating, and souvenir shopping. There really wasn't too many notable things that occurred. I did try to find the cat poop coffee. But when I tried to ask an attendant where I could find that specific brand.....oddly enough she seemed confused and referred me to one of there more popular bands of coffee. I didn't push the issue although I wonder if there is a way to ask for jungle cat poop coffee in Tagalog. Maybe someday I will find this elusive coffee and when I do I'm sure it will taste just like chicken because of course everything else does. The rest of the day was devoted to eating lunch (some more delicious adobo beef), packing up all my souvenirs, and watching Filipino TV. Which is full of weird game shows, super dramatic soap operas (including some sort of General Hospital but with acupuncture), and reruns of all the favorite shows back home and obscure 90 movies like Dark Man and others. Not prime time stuff. Anyway, sorry I can't add much to the blog, the Internet is down in my room and I can't use my labtop to download more pictures. I'll see you all soon after my trip tonight where I will actually travel back in time. That's right!!! I'm leaving at 10 PM on Saturday in Manilla and arriving at LA at 8 PM on Sat. That is awesome. I'm going to be like superman when he went back in time. I could say something at 8:00 in Manilla and then change my mind at 8:00 in LA and the first thing doesn't count. I'm loving this.
Anyway, see you all soon.

Philippine Marc (Only for a couple more hours)