The next morning Lori woke up to a stomach bug. Her stomach was churning, and I had developed a chest cold. I had also developed the runs too, so we needed to get down to the city center to pick up some medication. As unfortunate as we were feeling, we still didn't want our sickness to put a damper on our trip. We were determined to make the most of it! I think our immune systems were running on overdrive seeing as though we were in a different country with new germs being introduced into our systems. We met up with Liz and her little son Nicholas at SM mall and paid a visit to the pharmacy. We purchased non-drowsy cold meds called Neosep. My new best friend! We also got some anti diarrhea medication which fixed me right up! Lori unfortunately carried that damn stomach bug for another week or so.
Lori's new best friend was a probiotic drink suggested by Liz & Tevs: Yakult. We have it back in the states, although Lori didn't know what it was for and I hadn't realized it was sold in The Philippines. It didn't make it all go away, but it made a dramatic difference fairly quickly and helped along with Immodium. Fortunately we could find it in all but the most remote places and she wanted to have some on her at all times - breakfast, lunch, dinner at minimum and always made sure have some before traveling on a jeepney or bus for fear of "it" getting ugly. [Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakult]
After the mall we made our way to Tevs's shop which is called Ninja Works Kansai Service. His shop is so popular that tourists from Manila will drive their cars all the way to Baguio, drop their cars off with him and leave to go on vacation in the Mt. Provinces. They're begging him to move his operation down to Manila.
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Tevs took us to the Bus Terminal behind the center mall in downtown Baguio to scout out prices on bus tickets to Sagada, our next destination deep within the mountains. They recommended we purchase tickets the day of travel, because it's hard to determine if a bus will make the run that day due to the heavy rains that come at a moments notice.
After our little reconnaissance mission, Tevs dropped us off at the Baguio Mt. Provinces museum to look at more artifacts. We wandered around looking at the exhibits, and noticed that the selection of artifacts wasn't as extensive compared to the museum at St. Louis University. Neither was there someone to show us around. We did however learn more about the city of Baguio specifically and how it built up around Burnham Park. I think we saw a picture of every Baguio mayor that ever was!
Our final night in Baguio City, we were excited to have dinner at a restaurant called Cafe By The Ruins. It looked to be one of the the nicest restaurants in Baguio, the eatery was built utilizing some of the old ruins from the old Baguio city hall. It was also a special occasion, as Liz was heading back to the states for a few months, and it was a great way to spend the evening with her and the family. The food was amazing and we had to take some photos of everyone's food!
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We got a ride back to Tam-awan from Tevs with everyone piled in the backseat, said our goodbyes, and headed off to bed. Our bus from Baguio to Sagada left around 12pm, and we wanted to be well rested for the long twisty bus ride.
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