Our excuse was a Friday with no school (Ninoy Aquino day), Sam and Emma visiting and the chance to go away with great friends. Thankfully, we have indoctrinated our children to also really enjoy the beach so it is lots of fun for us as a family to go to the beach.
We travelled down early on Friday so we could have lots of time on the beach. Saturday we went snorkelling. Because the current was so strong we were towed around by a little banca as we snorkelled.
Naomi wanted to make [vol]canoes and then Steve made her a mermaid tail:
Sunday we had a choice of 2 boats to leave - 8 a.m. or 2 p.m. We actually wanted something more in between those times but as it was raining when we got up we decided to go for the 8 a.m. boat. Which probably was a better choice as it gave us the afternoon in Manila. However, we made the decision at 6:45 that we would take the 8 a.m. boat and the boat man said, "Ok, ready to go now?" Steve said, "No, we'll be ready at 8!" Well then they decided they couldn't possibly sail the boat to our beach to collect us so we had to trike to the next beach. When we got to the turning they told us there was no boat and refunded us part of the ticket - except not for all of us. When we arrived at the main pier we found out the next boat was not till 10:15 and a different line so we had to buy new tickets. After we got on the boat everything was "plain sailing"! But it just wouldn't be right to not have some cultural complication.
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Now we are jealous especially as it has poured with rain for a few hours today.
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