A Glimpse of the Province Life

This happened on the weekend of February and since I don't have many pictures of the area I will be sharing a short story.

Saturday morning, it was supposed to be a small walking exercise for us with my wife as we talked about eating at a nearby ( 20 mins walk carinderia ) in our place.

As we started walking, as usual, we talk about our plans in life and possible steps that we need to do to improve our relationship and the future of our child which is normal for couples to talk about.

While we were eating we heard a familiar sound calling us and as we search where it was we knew that it was Tatay Lando (April's father) calling her granddaughter. He was selling some of his harvested sweet potatoes in the area and the eatery where we are eating is one of his regulars.

After some chit-chats, we decided to join Tatay in going to his sibling's place as it was a "walking distance" ( 15+ mins walk again) and we have talked about visiting them before but never had the chance as we do not know the way to get there from our place.

In my almost 2 months of stay in the province, I am getting used to seeing pineapples and coconut trees that are within reach. What peeked on my attention are the mahogany trees that is surrounding our pathway.

Though it was 7 or 8 already in the morning, heat from the sun isn't that hurtful to the skin most because the breeze coming from the wind is helping out in maintaining the coolness.

We arrived at April's aunts' and uncles' place and immediately our daughter was kidnapped by them. It was expected as they are always waiting for us and asking April why there's no new video uploaded on Facebook relating to our child. For more than 2 hours we stayed and had talks with everyone until the sky gets dim and a few drops of rain started to fall.

Before it gets heavy we bid goodbye and left the place and while walking the sun shows itself again making light into our paths.

While we are walking I noticed that the coconuts in the area are not as tall as I was expecting. The usual trees that I saw back then were at least 2-story buildings or more but this one isn't that high and if I would try I cab climb it. Aaron mentioned that there were 2 variants of coconut trees planted before, the first one is the one that I am familiar with and the other is the one currently planted. The high ones were cut down to give way to such trees. I said that the reason why the trees are small is that the old trees cursed the land making the new breeds smaller. I forgot the reason why they were replaced btw as I was focused on justifying my claim that there's a curse in the area.

When we arrived home, we took a small bite showered a little bit to remove some of the dirt that we accumulated along the way, and talk about how slow pacing our life is right now. Compared to how our life before near the metro area I realized that the place that we are in right now is a great place to start a small family. Without the gadgets and noises, folks can enjoy and pass their days enjoying the company of everyone and enjoying nature which we plan to do in the next few days as we will go on a picnic on my rest day

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