Before Reality Sets In

This should already be about the next renovation job I'm doing but I still have one set of photos to show of the treehouse villas we visited at the Shangri-La courtesy of Spar, the dynamic and accommodating front desk officer.  He made the quickie tour possible right before we caught our flight back to Manila.

I wish I can go back to this bathroom and open all the blinds and capture how the whole space opens up to the trees beyond allowing all the light to stream through.  I'd love to have a bathroom like this that is totally bathed in natural sunshine filtered through layers and layers of trees. 

This is Rima, the Italian restaurant which we missed.  That's why there should be a next time.

Reality has actually and abruptly set in the moment we stepped out of the speed boat and onto the bustle of the port area and the chaos of Caticlan airport under renovation.  This afternoon I went to visit the second renovation site.  Demolition work is going on as scheduled.  The workers are chipping out the tiles from the bathrooms and next we need to make the new openings through the concrete walls.