Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Our Recent Philippine Vacation...Cont.

Busy, busy, busy. One of the reasons for this vacation is to attend our eldest niece's wedding. We're one of the sponsors, and Keet is one of the bridesmaids. We tried to find pina barong for Peter, but we have trouble with the sizes. We went to Gilmore Tailoring in Cebu to have a barong made, and what a wonderful job they made. The bonus was, it was even cheaper than the ready made barongs at SM.

The wedding went very well. Everyone had a great time. Food, food, food and the guests - WOW ! That was what I call Filipino wedding reception! I splurged on lechon baboy ( boy, how I missed Filipino foods ). We tried to spoil the newly wed by sending them to Maribago Blue Water Resort for their honeymoon. We wished that we made a reservation for ourselves too for our last week in the Philippines when we saw their room, especially when the newly weds told us that they were really impressed with the resort in their 3 days stay.


We went to Kawasan a couple of days after the wedding. The drive towards the fall is so pretty, I think that was the first time we drove that route during the daytime ( we usually passed those places at nighttime going home to Lapu-Lapu ). We stopped at the place where there's a statue of "sigbin". Peter is specially interested to see the statue because Keet was telling him ( from what her cousins told her ) that "sigbin" is a monster and a witch's familiar. He was so amused and disappointed when he saw the statue as it was just a kangaroo ;-) !

Sigbin at the background ;)

By the weekend, we went island hopping. It was hilarious! The waves that day was so high. Marcy and Mytit was so nervous whenever the strong waves hit our boat, that their expressions were so comical. We always like to treat all our immediate relatives to go to places to have fun with us. They seem to enjoy it as much as we are, not a dull moment when we go out.

2 comments:

chenz101 said...

for me island hopping is the best getaways... forget going to resort but not this thrilled island hopping... on 2010 we go virgin island bohol.

senn said...

Yehey, we're going to Virgin Island Bohol, courtesy of chenz (or did I misunderstood...wink wink, nod nod ;)), bantay bitaw, tigom na sugod diha, hahaha.