Hunnymooner No More?

We celebrated our first wedding anniversary much like we celebrated our first christmas - quiet and low-key. I know for a fact JM had asked around my friends what could be a possible anniversary gift for me and he had been given sugggestions as going out of town or out of the country. But since we are based out of the country and we always go out of town on the many Thai holidays, it was but appropriate that we spend it locally. And we did. We booked a room at the New World hotel and had dinner at the neighboring Shangri-la hotel.

Before checking in, we had lunch with JM's family. To satisfy the hubby's yearning for crispy pata, we had our lunch at Sentro. Need I say that it also satisfied my own yearnings, both for crispy pata and their original corned beef sinigang. I would have opted to have the bottomless sago gulaman too but decided to be more conscious of my sugar intake. The family then dropped us off at the hotel and left us to our devices...*evil grin* - not!

As soon as we settled our luggage in the room, we went out again for some errands and then to the church that we were wed to attend Mass. We were surprised to see the church packed with kids and learned later on that it was a children's easter mass we were attending, thus the children's choir and puppet homily. Yes, the homily was given, not by the priest, but by severely altered looking cookie monster, kermit and big bird. Hmmm, could this be a hint to us? Hehehe!

We went back to the hotel after the mass to get some rest. The past week had been really busy and sleep always came late so I wasn't surprised to find myself off to lala land too soon. I woke up to find JM having finsihed his bath and getting dressed for dinner so, much as I would have wanted to sleep some more, I had to fix myself up for dinner as well.

Dinner wasn't up to my expectations. I had heard praises about the buffet at the Shangri-la and have been told of the wide selection of delicious food. Indeed it was a wide selection, but the choices weren't very appealing to me. The only section I went to twice was the Japanese bar, for the salmon sashimi and the california maki. I had some fresh oysters, but was too afraid of getting a tummy ache so I ate sparingly. The prawns were so-so, although they went well with their mango salsa and tomato dips. There was the usual carving station but the meat looked too fatty, I didn't get any. The lamb chops weren't all that delicious, but the beef kebab was good. The grilled sea bass was ok. I didn't touch pasta or any other Italian food. And I didn't take anything from the Chinese section too.

BUT the dessert more than made up for my disappointment! I totally forgot about being conscious of my sugar intake. As I spooned chocolate after chocolate into my mouth, I told JM "I could die now and I'm gonna die happy, with a smile on my face."

Back at the hotel, though, I had to once more face the reality of packing our luggage to prepare for the following day's departure. We got up quite early the next day to find time for a dip in the pool. I was too lazy to actually get into the pool but as I had already been thoroughly tanned from prior beach trips, I couldn't very well do anymore sunbathing, so I did get myself wet. And that was when I realized how out of shape I really was (as if I hadn't yet!) - I couldn't complete a lap unless I did it in backstroke! So I vowed to make more use of our building pool and to immediately make use of JM's wedding anniversary gift - yoga classes!

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