Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Philippines: Bye Bye Boracay, Hello Cebu!!

Since Thursday was our last night in Boracay we decided to go out with a bang and it was the first full day since Manila that Nicole and I spent the whole day alone together. Instead of blabbing on about how the night went down, I will explain through pictures.
I ordered myself my favorite cocktail, a Cosmopolitan at an Italian restaurant recommended to us by a friend.
Nicole enjoying her very strong Mojito at the delicious Italian restaurant we ate our last Boracay supper at.
Jungle Bar is where the party really got started. It actually looks like a Jungle inside, as you can see.
Some of the employees at Jungle Bar entertained us with a live performance.
This is probably my favorite picture of Nicole and I (taken at Jungle Bar).
The super hot bartender at Jungle Bar then enticed us with his fire tricks. There is nothing sexier than a topless man who plays with fire. *Sorry mom and dad, if you are reading this*
Nicole and I with our captain from the sailing trip the previous day (sitting behind me) and his cousin (beside Nicole).
Another cute picture of Nicole and I at Jungle Bar. I think all the free rum and cokes were getting to our heads.
Nicole has taken to liking cats, but not to the cats advantage.
This picture was taken at around 5AM, when Nicole and I walked back to our area at the end of the night along the beach. I LOVE IT!!
These two guys are from Dubai and they were creepy to us most of the trip. However, they grew on us and they bought us our food at Jammers around 530AM and they didn't even order a thing.
Nicole showing off the enormous chili dog from Jammers we were about to stuff our faces with.
Since, it was about 6:30AM when we finished eating our food back at the hotel and we had to be up at 7:45AM I decided to just pull and all nighter, but Nicole slept.
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Friday morning we got picked up by the company that would take us all the way back to Kalibo to catch our plane to Cebu. Nicole and I decided together to pay a little extra to get to Kalibo to make sure that we wouldn't miss our flight. They drove us to the boat, got us on and off the boat, then took us in a giant bus that only had about 10 people on the two hour ride to the airport. Once they dropped us off at the airport we were on our own. We got to the airport about 3 hours before our flight, so we had loads of time to kill. We found a nice coffee shop in the airport, so we grabbed some food and hung out in there until it was time to board. While we were hanging out there we noticed a bunch of commotion on the runway. There were a row of army men lined up on the runway waiting for some thing. Then a plane landed and the President of The Philippines (or who we assumed was the President b/c of all the security) got off it.
She is the lady dressed in white with the soldier on her left.
We ended up boarding our plane an hour late because of the President landing at Kalibo airport.
This is how many people were on the plane from Kalibo to Cebu.
As soon as we arrived in Cebu we had to find a hotel. Once we did we took about a 45 minute cab ride into central Cebu to get to it. As soon as we set our bags down we passed right out. We decided to set a clock, so we didn't sleep through night. When we woke-up we wandered around the streets looking for a place to eat. We found this semi-hole in the wall restaurant to enjoy some traditional Filipino food.
I made Nicole take this picture for the view of the restaurant, but can we please talk about how I looked starved and I'm not.
When we finished eating we wandered the streets for a bit before heading back to the hotel to get a good nights sleep.

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