The Prodigal Son Returns

I finally arrived back in Batangas last night. We decided that it was a bit late to visit the family over in San Isidro so we stayed at the BossJack Resort which is still currently under development. I was greeted there by Tito Simeon, Ate Precy’s Father, who used to take me to school when I lived here as a child. It was very good to see him and as he knew I was coming he had freshly roasted and brewed some of the local coffee, which is up there in my top 3 favourite coffees ever. We had some food and I was then taught how to play Tongit, a very popular Filipino card game. For some reason there was also red and white wine instead of San Miguel but that didn't seem to matter, I had forgotten that Bilucao, which is where I stayed last night, is where time stands still. Or at least thats how it felt. After 3 bottles between 4 of us we looked at the watch for the first time since we got there and saw that it was 11 PM. 1 dropped out which left 3 of us to talk about my plans here and what I should do over the next couple of months. We looked down at the watch again and it had gone 1 AM so we decided to call it a night only to find out that there were no sheets around so we had to drive up to another house in the middle of the night where the door was unlocked and did well only managing to wake up 3 people :)  We finally went to bed around 2 AM but to me it still felt like 10 PM. Thats the magic of this place though, you may think that the night sounds will keep you awake at night but I guarantee you that once your head hits that pillow it will be like the trees are singing you a lullaby and the next thing you know its morning and there's some fresh coffee waiting for you… Heaven :D