My husband's arrival and a quick trip at the Duty Free.

Hello dear friends! I was not able to post an article yesterday because as some of you knew I have posted about the arrival of my husband which was yesterday morning. So your guess is right that what I am going to share today is about what happened on the day of his arrival.

Originally my husband's arrival was 6:10 in the morning according to his flight details, however his flight from LA to the Manila was delayed for an hour so his arrival moved to 7 am. I informed my father in law and his brother as well because he said that he wanted to come with us in fetching his brother at the airport. By the way my brother in law just came back last Monday evening too. At around 5:30 in the morning my father in law came to our house to fetch us. I prepared the kids and their things and went to my father in law's car. Then we passed on to my brother in law who was waiting for us near their house so he could come. We were at the Quezon Avenue at around 6:15 and Dade my father in law decided to take the Edsa route. We were supposed to have drive thru at some fastfood chain for our breakfast however the one we went to doesnt have one, so we decided to eat at the airport because we were anticipating the congestion along the road. Miraculously there wasn't any heavy traffic while we are on the way, and we arrived at the NAIA airport by 7 in the morning.

We proceeded to Terminal 2 where my husband is going to arrive, meanwhile we were so hungry that's why we looked for something to eat, unfortunately the fastfood chain outlet that we used to be whenever we were there, was no longer open. We decided to have burger at the parking area so that we can have something on our stomach. That time Anthony doesn't have message yet.

Honestly, airport is very far from the way it used to be. Before there was screen for the waiting people outside so that they will know whether the plane of their loved ones had arrived. Today you can rely on the announcement from the public address system.

By the time we finished our food, I tried to call my husband phone number, fortunately it rang which means he has turned off his roaming and has arrived. He texted after that he has to prepare some documents to show to the airport staffs. The procedures took a while longer that he was able to go out in the airport by 9 am. The only good thing about now was that he no longer needed to be quarantine and can go straight to us. We hugged him right away when we reached him.

The reason why his brother came with us because he wanted to go to Duty Free to buy some stuffs. We dropped by at the Duty Free however we were too early because it will open at 10 am, so we decided to eat first so that by the time we finished our food the shop will be open. And yes, after that my father in law drove us back to Duty Free shop and upon entering we filled up contact tracing forms.

It was our first time again going back there after two years. The whole place looked different too. From what I can remember the first thing that will caught your eyes are loads of chocolates at the shop. Staffs would eventually offered you of their available promos and such. Yesterday the shop looked empty maybe because only few shoppers were there. There were only few promos available too. Of course I got two bags of chocolates worth $50 dollars to avail of their promo. I got a free m&m's dispenser and an umbrella for that. We didn't stay for long because we might spend more. We went to the cashier to pay for it. Our total bill was $154 for a 3 bags of chocolates, 1 bag of butter cookies and 2 packs of cigarettes. My brother in law shared in paying for this total bill.

Moving forward, we went to the grocery to buy some imported canned goods. I was looking forward to buy some ramen which I bought last time but it's no longer available. Only few brands were available and we only picked up those goods that we can use. It was actually disappointing because our favorite brands were nowhere to be seen. We usually bought these stuffs for pasalubong because my husband's family is quite big. After about an hour were done and proceeded to the cashier to pay. Our bill this time costs $68.

On our way out to the shop we passed by to an area of sale items. It says 70% so we looked at it and got interested. It was a comforter which only costs $18 from its original price of $60.75, it was a great savings that when I got home I wished we should have bought two because of its good quality.

We got to the parking area after paying and went home right after. I was so sleepy that I was slept the whole ride going home. When I woke up we were at my brother in law's house at around 1 pm. We took the skyway that's why it doesn't take too long going home. We ate our lunch over there before we finally got home.

When we got home, our dog Yumi was very excited to meet his daddy too that she can't stop clinging unto him. I prepared one of his favorite meal for dinner. Pritong galunggong (fried fish) and ginisang ampalaya with egg (sauteed bitter melon with eggs).

I wanna thank the Lord for the bringing my husband safe and sound to us. And he was also save from spending days at the hotel for quarantine because of the Alert level 2 status of our city. For the next days we're gonna be busy bonding and I am going to share everything here with you all.

That would be all for today. May God bless us all!

Lead image source. The rest of the images were all mine.