{"id":25,"date":"2011-02-28T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunaemami.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-04-17T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:42:52","slug":"bubbas-not-so-big-three-o-at-pnky-travel-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunaemami.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Bubba&#8217;s Not-So-Big Three-O At PNKY Travel Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Luna,<\/p>\n<p>I am having a great 30th birthday, not because of lots of gifts or lollies or a big party but because I got a great daughter &amp; wife by my side. When you&#8217;re a child and it&#8217;s your birthday you look at your gifts and your party to decide if it is a good birthday or not, but when you grow older, you look at what you have in your life to see if it is a good birthday or not. I never thought I could have started a lovely family while living an adventurous life by the time I reached 30, so I am a very proud man on my 30th birthday thanks to you &amp; Mum \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>Bubba<\/p>\n<p>Dear Luna,<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, I wanted to throw bubba a big celebration since it&#8217;s his 30th. But we&#8217;re living far from mum&#8217;s relatives (and we haven&#8217;t made any friends yet in Baguio where we currently reside), plus we don&#8217;t have much money to spend right now. So we just picked a nice restaurant we have not dined in before for a simple birthday lunch.<\/p>\n<p>PNKY Travel Cafe is the resident resto of PNKY Bed &amp; Breakfast. This B&amp;B, before it was developed to what it is today, was a vacation house that can be short term-rented by tourists. Mum spent a lot of (high)school holidays here with my parents and aunts and uncles and cousins. We did barbies here, and bonfires and late night drinking sessions and truth-or-dares (wherein we once challenged my Aunt Amy to enter the premises of the <i>Laperal White House<\/i> <span>\u2014 <\/span>known to be haunted <span>\u2014<\/span> across the street, read story <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinaytraveljunkie.com\/2014\/02\/the-laperal-white-house-baguio-city.html\">HERE<\/a><\/b>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very special place for me, and it means a lot to be able to bring you and bubba here. So yeah, not a bad celebration at all. As long as bubba is happy, I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>Mum<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nomadwifey\/14041452529\" title=\"luna1 by Gay Miriel Emami, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"luna1\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lunaemami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/14041452529_f0e50fc319_o.jpg?resize=525%2C345&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>Donning a onesie which Ninang Camille gave you.<\/center><center>&nbsp;<\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nomadwifey\/14205030326\" title=\"luna2 by Gay Miriel Emami, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"luna2\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lunaemami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/14205030326_2edfde84fe_o.jpg?resize=525%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>PNKY Travel Cafe. Once Q Bar.<\/center><center>&nbsp;<\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nomadwifey\/14042058018\" title=\"luna4 by Gay Miriel Emami, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"luna4\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lunaemami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/14042058018_9e5017f634_o.jpg?resize=525%2C349&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Restaurant all to ourselves.<\/div>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nomadwifey\/14225536481\" title=\"luna5 by Gay Miriel Emami, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"luna5\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lunaemami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/14225536481_4d697a7627_o.jpg?resize=525%2C344&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>You only had the soup because we just started introducing you to solid food. <\/center><center><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nomadwifey\/14042331418\" title=\"luna3 by Gay Miriel Emami, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"luna3\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lunaemami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/14042331418_f36acd21d0_o.jpg?resize=525%2C635&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\" name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\">Share<\/a><a data-count=\"vertical\" data-lang=\"en\" data-related=\"anywhereTheJavascriptAPI\" data-url=\"http:\/\/lunaglobecrawler.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/australian-2013.html\" data-via=\"nomadwifey\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start FastWebCounter.com  --><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastwebcounter.com\/\" title=\"Free Web Counter\">This page was viewed  times.<\/a><br \/><!-- End FastWebCounter.com  --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Luna, I am having a great 30th birthday, not because of lots of gifts or lollies or a big party but because I got a great daughter &amp; wife by my side. 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