Girls Night Out

Greg left last Saturday to go to Paris and London-yes really for work!  He was supposed to just fly through Amsterdam but ended up having to spend the night there because of flight delays due to snow-the kids and I are jealous that he has seen snow and is cold!  Ryan said "I wish I could go on Daddy's business trips with him!"  I laughed!  Don't think Greg would get too much done.  Scott chimed in and said he wanted to go too-to see other places he had read about and Ashley wanted to go so she could make snow angels.

Anyway, Greg is traveling with Howard-a new ex-pat who has been here with his wife, Pat for 2 weeks.  She and I went to the Fluor Client Appreciation night-to see Mamma Mia at the Philipine Cultural Center-where we took the kids to see the Nutcracker.  The musical was great!  A really fun performance and it reminded me of seeing the movie when it came out with a bunch of girlfriends on a girls night out in Greenville.

After the performance we all went to the Manila Hotel for dinner-a very historic hotel that is beautifully re-done.  Here's a link to info about the history of the hotel-

http://www.manila-hotel.com.ph/history

Here are some pictures I took of the hotel-dinner was very nice-lots of fancy silverware on the table-we ate shrimp with lemon olive oil, seafood soup-that was a little too seafood-y for my taste, we had sorbet, roast beef, mashed potatoes, and vegetables, and for dessert coconut panna cota with tropical fruit salsa-it was good but Greg would have said the food all belonged on Top Chef because it was nothing plain and ordinary!