Our Trip to Boracay Island

Dave and I had an amazing time in Boracay! The island is absolutely beautiful. We had to fly into Manila airport, then fly to Kalibo, then take a van for an hour to the other side of the island, then take a little speedboat to Boracay. We arrived just before the sunset.

We stayed at Nami Resort, which is up on a cliff overlooking the sea. Our room had an amazing view of the island along with a hot tub on the deck, which we managed to totally overflow with way too many bubbles. It was hilarious!

We decided not to use the bubbles the second time!

enjoying the view

Views from our room

Breakfast at our hotel

We even had our own personal butler at the hotel who set up a private romantic dinner for us one night on the big deck on the water.

Here are some photos from around the beach.

How amazing is this sand castle!

We went parasailing on Sunday. It was so awesome! The guys on the boat took some great pics for us and even let me drive the boat on our way back in.

All the pictures from our trip can be viewed in the Boracay photo album.

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Leaving for Boracay Tomorrow

We're leaving tomorrow morning for Boracay Island (in the Philippines) for a few days. Hopefully it'll be sunny and warm there and not rainy like it's been here this week!

Where we are staying: http://www.namiboracay.com/home.html

Palm Reading

Dave and I had our palms read for free at this bar last night. The guy said we are both kind and happy people and will travel a lot in our lives. We are going to be rich and make a lot of money between 35 and 50 and live very happy together for many years. We will have two kids, a son first and then a daughter, and I'll die at 84 and he will die at 89. Damnit. I knew I'd die first.

Bintan and Singapore

For Chinese New Year we flew to Singapore and stayed there for the night, then took a ferry boat out to Bintan, Indonesia for a few days.

View of Singapore at night from our room.


Happy Chinese New Year! Fireworks from our hotel room in Singapore.

Bintan island is about an hour boat ride from Singapore. Our resort was right on the beach and it was really nice and relaxing to be in out the sun at the beach...felt like I was back home in Cali again :)












My favorite part of the trip was getting back out on the jetski again and tearing it up in the south china sea and the elephant ride. He even posed for photos with us. Adorable! The real highlight of the trip was Dave realizing his woman has some mad basketball skills. Oh yeah. I DOMINATED in the Horse game!! ;-)

We didn't get to spend a lot of time in Singapore, but maybe we'll go back there again while we're in Asia. From what we could tell it seemed pretty nice. HOT as hell though!

Next trip is Boracay island in the Philippines. We leave next Friday for a 4 day trip.

Hopefully after that we can start planning a trip to New Zealand and Australia! Cant wait!

The rest of the photos from Bintan/Singapore can be viewed under the Photos section in the menu at the top right of the page.

Guilin, China

We have returned from our weekend trip to Guilin mainland China. I've never seen a third world country until this trip so it was definitely a bit of a culture shock. It is a scenic place and has some natural beauty to it, but I don't think we'll be returning anytime soon!

We got to go on a tour through an old cave, ride up to the top of a mountain in the cable car, take photos with a monkey, go on a riverboat tour and have a tour guide show us around the area. The best thing was the hour long massage we got for about $12 bucks each!

Here are some of our photos.

The entire album from this trip can be viewed by clicking here: Guilin Photos

On the riverboat

There were all these people following alongside the boat the whole time begging for money.

I never knew a place dirtier than Tijuana could exist, but it does. Nobody uses toilet paper in mainland and good luck even finding a regular toilet anywhere. Most of the things we saw that were called toilets were disgusting holes in the ground and completely unsanitary. I don't even want to be descriptive in explaining it. It was truly the nastiest thing I've ever seen in my life. The cleanest public bathroom was in the airport and I even cringed at it. Who came up with this retarded idea of a toilet on the floor???

Finding food there that wasn't snake eyes, turtle soup, fried frog or an organ from some animal was as bad as finding a normal toilet. The stuff people eat there looks SO GROSS!! We pretty much ate M&M's, fruit, rice and french fries at the restaurant in our hotel since that was literally all we could find that was "normal" to us. Oh, and people drive crazy in China! There are no traffic laws there, all people do is honk at each other and pass eachother on the wrong side of the street! It was an experience but we were happy to get back to civilization and normal food in Hong Kong on Monday night!

Friday we leave for Singapore and Bintan for 6 days. Looking forward to that!

Funny

I forgot to post this a few weeks ago when it happened. I thought it was funny that our cab driver's name was Shit!

Shopping for shoes in Hong Kong SUCKS

Apparently, an 8 or 8.5 shoe size = giant ogre over here. Nearly every place I go looking for shoes doesn't carry anything larger than 6 or 7. LAME!!! A lady working at the Nine West store looked at me like I was crazy and yelled, "NO SIZE, THAT WAY TOO BIG!"when I told her my size. At least I finally found a pair of hiking shoes today. I was starting to get pissed off.

Dave and I booked a few trips for the next couple weeks!

We are going to Guilin in mainland China this weekend and will be going hiking and doing some outdoors stuff there. It's about an hour flight from HK. Guilin is supposed to be really beautiful and scenic w/rivers, lakes and hiking trails so we're excited to check it out.

Next Wednesday we are flying to Singapore for a few days and then taking a boat to Bintan island in Indonesia for the weekend. It's peak travel season here because it's Chinese New Year, but we were able to get lucky and get a room at this Bintan Lagoon Resort. http://www.bintanlagoon.com It looks pretty amazing. I want to rent boats and jetski's there and do it all!

World's Tallest Buddha

Dave and I went with Amanda and Lou to see the big buddha last weekend. We took the cable car over the water to get all the way up there. It was awesome.

We are really high up! Scary?!

This thing is HUGE.

Click here to see more of the Buddha pics: Buddha Photos