Lolo took us also to this beautiful castle!!! If the trend is having restaurants in homes, this one was a castle!! It was a true home of an individual in the past and now it is a hotel with a restaurant. Events and Weddings are also held here as it is truly a beautiful venue.
We had a delicious brunch with a very cozy ambience, Thank you Lolo for taking us and for your company which we enjoyed the most!
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Lolo took us to one of his favorite restaurants in New Jersey!! A family friend took us here many years ago and since then, it has become one of Lolo’s favorites.
There was a yoga place beside it 🙂
View from the window inside the restaurant
BYOB ( Bring Your Own Bottle ) so James took care of the wine
We all enjoy being with Lolo! He really knows how to live life to the fullest!! Thank you Lolo for spending time with us and for taking us out to dinner. ( Lolo always makes sure that we eat well ). We treasure every moment with him and we love him
Soup of the Day- Wild Mushroom soup
Almost everyone ordered the foie gras special, and my Mom gave special instructions to me that I should order this!
I had two appetizers, so this was my main dish -Warm Tart Portobello Mushroom, Truffle cream
Today’s Fish Special
Fillet of Beef ” Maribar”
Berkshire Pork
Lamb Tenderloin
They made a special vegetarian dish for Tita Tess 🙂
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Another place that also amazed us was the dining hall. WOW!!!
I thought this was a great idea so you don’t have to worry about your things in the dining table
Fresh Fruits station
Waffle and Pancake Station
Coffee Station
All kinds of milk
Beverage Station
Sauces and seasonings
WOW!!! Frozen yogurt you can swirl yourself!
More fruits
Cereal Station
Bread Station
And if you are not satisfied, you can go to another place but you need to pay already
Brochures on health and nutrition on the wall
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire August 10, 2010
I made a separate entry for the gym because I thought it was important that a good school has to have good sports facilities. We toured a bit late so it was about to close already but we were able to see part of it and were impressed
Outdoor Tennis Courts
The Love Gym
I have never seen anything like this, I think it is very well said
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Continuing our educational tour, Another 30 minutes drive from Andover, is Exeter. Again, we passed their main street 🙂
Another beautiful campus
The campus was busy as kids were registering for Summer School and parents were dropping them off
Post office for the kids to get their mail
A very safe campus
One of the Boarding Houses
The school bookstore
The library -the second largest in the world for secondary school
Inside the library
Phillips Exeter is known for their Harkness Classroom
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Is it true that all cities in the United States have a MAIN STREET? We noticed in our road trips to the small cities, they always had a main street which was like their main street for shopping and restaurants…hmmm…This was the main street of Andover
So we drove through main street to look for a place to have breakfast and we stumbled into this! Bruegger’s Bagels!
Wow! And of course….the land of choices!!! They have all kinds of bagels!!! It makes it more difficult to choose when there are so many choices 🙂 Drives me nuts!
Despite the many choices, we still went for the regular with cream cheese
Tried to be healthy and ordered the whole wheat bagel
The cinnamon bagel was also good!!! Sticky but good 🙂
They have a window where you can watch make the bagel- KETTLE BOILED BAGELS
And you can take home bagels of course and the different kinds of cream cheeses in tubs already ready to go
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The road trip started from New Jersey to Boston ( Boston, Massachusetts July 27, 2010 ) and from Boston we continued our educational tour ( Harvard University July 29, 2010 ) and took a peek at Phillips Andover in Andover. A beautiful city and a nice environment for kids as it is very safe, a city with many greens, and a place with not too many distractions, therefore conducive to studying. It was a saturday so there was no classes and no one was around to show us the campus. So we just drove through
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Heart2Heart loves ROAD TRIPS! I definitely like it much better than airplanes! We are lucky to have a patient and very good driver
1.) We take along our good friend, the GPS, so it is very easy- no need to buy any maps and try to read them. And at any give point if you get lost, it will lead you back on track
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2.) It’s BONDING TIME for the family. Though the kids always fight and we get into each others nerves….we are forced to stay inside the car and just stay together and learn to deal with each other 🙂 At the end, we have fun and enjoy being together as a family.
3.) We are always on the lookout for these signs, hoping our favorite fastfood is in the next stop
We like to stop and have breaks in between……. and because of the breaks, the trip does not seem so long after all
We were actually lucky one time, we got lost or made the wrong turn and we ended up seeing a chinese take out place, so we got to eat our rice!! The chinese set meals come with so many things already for a very reasonable price
General Tso’s Chicken! 🙂
4.) There is lots of beautiful scenery on the way. In a plane you will probably see black scenery or clouds when you look out your window. In a road trip, everywhere you go is a different landscape and it is so beautiful. My favorite was this field of sunflowers! I have always wanted to see this…hoping I could have fresh sunflowers all the time in my home
5.) You can stop wherever and whenever you like
6.) Every trip is an adventure because you do not know where you will be passing and what you will be seeing or where you will have your next meal.
Heart2Heart LOVES ROAD TRIPS!
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Heart2Heart has added another angel to its list! Tita Irene Martel-Francisco, the woman behind The Philippine Tatler and Philippines’ Best Restaurants Book. I was with Mia Borromeo and she was telling me how much she admires Tita Irene. She has a wonderful heart, Mia told me. Mia also mentioned to me that the Tatler Ball which she organizes every year, she gives all the money raised to charity. She does not even deduct all the expenses she spends for the event…. She spends for the event and everything raised goes to charity. Wow! Thank you Tita Irene!
Though she already gives back to society with her annual Tatler Ball, she decided this year to give back as well with her other publication, Philippines’ Best Restaurants Book. The publication is on it’s 7th year and instead of having the usual grand launch for the book, she decided to give the money instead to its beneficiary, Hands On Manila. At the same time, they have rounded up 64 restaurants to join in the cause and will be giving ten percent of its sales for the week August 13 to the 20th. So let’s all support Tita Irene and help the kids of Hands on Manila. If you plan to eat out next week, make sure to take note of the restaurants joining the cause…YOU CAN BE A HERO TO THESE STUDENTS!
Of course, Heart2Heart is not surprised that one of the biggest donors of Hands on Manila is Tessa herself! THANK YOU TESSA!!!
Thank you to all those who made this possible!
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