Hanging on and not letting go but loving it!
Our motto.
Hanging around in the Hidden Garden restaurant waiting for lunch.
Traditional Ilocanos dishes...trust me they taste way better than they look!
The view from the ladies toilet. Best one I've seen since that outdoor one in the Serengetti last year.
One type of wishing well at the Hidden Garden restaurant.
Handing around with a new friend in front of the National Museum (formerly a provincial prison)
You can see just how large the opening to the kiln is here...the kiln is several meters long and this is just one end of it...there is another main opening that is like a mirror image about 30 feet away. From the look of it workers were building a connecting section between the two openings. Not sure how they will access it easily once they do that but...there were little tiny "doorways" at intervals along the "tunnel/kiln".
A working carabou
The pit of mud that the carabou works in. It is about 12 feet in diameter.
Potter at work. He throws 50 of these a day.
Potters assistant is the guy in the orange shorts. His job is to prepare the clay for the wheel as well as kick the wheel till the potter gets his pot opened up. They had quite a system and it was easy to see that they've done it once or twice before. LOL
Lynda playing Demi to the potters Patrick. That potter was laughing so hard he could hardly keep his clay under control. I'm thinking it might be the first time in a very long time that one of his pots might have uneven walls. LOL!
Outdoor chapel that is the part of this church (built in 1500's). This section was damaged during WWII and they've left it that way.
Interesting angle of the bell tower that doubled as lookout during wartime. 120 steps up and the same number down!
Top of the tower looking through the top of the bell.
Making the climb, about 1/2 way up at this point. Steepest bit still to come. No pics from that part though as it was more of a ladder so had to hold on tight!
Hanging on and not letting go but loving it!
Our motto.
Hanging around in the Hidden Garden restaurant waiting for lunch.
Traditional Ilocanos dishes...trust me they taste way better than they look!
The view from the ladies toilet. Best one I've seen since that outdoor one in the Serengetti last year.
One type of wishing well at the Hidden Garden restaurant.
Handing around with a new friend in front of the National Museum (formerly a provincial prison)
You can see just how large the opening to the kiln is here...the kiln is several meters long and this is just one end of it...there is another main opening that is like a mirror image about 30 feet away. From the look of it workers were building a connecting section between the two openings. Not sure how they will access it easily once they do that but...there were little tiny "doorways" at intervals along the "tunnel/kiln". 
A working carabou
The pit of mud that the carabou works in. It is about 12 feet in diameter.
Potter at work. He throws 50 of these a day. 
Potters assistant is the guy in the orange shorts. His job is to prepare the clay for the wheel as well as kick the wheel till the potter gets his pot opened up. They had quite a system and it was easy to see that they've done it once or twice before. LOL
Lynda playing Demi to the potters Patrick. That potter was laughing so hard he could hardly keep his clay under control. I'm thinking it might be the first time in a very long time that one of his pots might have uneven walls. LOL!
Outdoor chapel that is the part of this church (built in 1500's). This section was damaged during WWII and they've left it that way. 
Interesting angle of the bell tower that doubled as lookout during wartime. 120 steps up and the same number down!
Top of the tower looking through the top of the bell.
Making the climb, about 1/2 way up at this point. Steepest bit still to come. No pics from that part though as it was more of a ladder so had to hold on tight! 
Great pictures!
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