My Trip to Bohol - Day 1

This is long overdue but I really want to share it to you.

October 16, 2004 9:30am - We're off to Bohol riding a B737, Flight PR175.
We arrived a little late to the airport...around 8:30am....no chance to choose a window side seat coz all the window seats are taken. Wow we never expect that there's gonna be a lot of passengers coz it's not peak season....oh well maybe a lot of Boholanos are going home to take advantage of PAL's promo. Imagine, the airfare is 50% off!!!! That's a great deal!

We're too busy chitchatting and picture taking that we didn't recognize the time. Almost an hour na pala ang nakalipas and it's boarding time already. Syempre, picture taking pa rin sa tube at sa plane....Super excited that we even take a shot of LTP...hindi nga kami nahiya dun sa katabi namin na nasa window seat....he's a foreigner so we thought he won't mind ;-)



...it's our remembrance....E and me worked there for a month last year...we developed a prototype - a Document Management System for their aircraft manuals. Even if we didn't won the bid, we still take it as a nice experience.

The fasten your seatbelt sign is on....we are about to land in Tagbilaran City already...WELCOME TO BOHOL!!!!! Yey!!!!!
Syempre, super excited kami....but we didn't rushed to get off the plane....ang haba kasi ng pila....while discussing on who's in charge of looking for a taxi, a passenger butt in..."Taga Bangko Sentral ba kayo?"...Nye! why did he asked us that...mukha ba kaming finance peeps?..."Hindi po" sagot namin...."May papunta kasing taga-Bangko Sentral dito, akala ko kayo yun"....We smiled and thought that's the end of the conversation....then we continue the discussion on the taxi topic...."Maraming taxi dyan paglabas nyo ng airport, or if you want tawag kayo sa rent a car...magtanong kayo dun sa information may directory sila dun.".....aba nakikinig pala sa usapan namin....I acknowledge his godwill..."Ganun po ba, sige salamat po"...."San ba kayo papunta?"...."Sa Alona Land po"...."May maaarkila kayo dyan sa labas na taxi....marami dyan"...."Magkano po kaya ang sisingilin sa min ng driver?"....."Mga 350"....."Ah ok...salamat po".....Aba, little did I know....all of my friends are smiling........They keep telling me "Naniniwala na kami na mabili ka sa mga bisaya".....haha....kahit anong explanation ko, I can't convince them that they're just being friendly lang......

Wow, the airport is different....walang tube....labo-labo sa pagkuha ng baggage....you can really feel that you're far from Manila. The excitement becomes more intense......so we went out and look for a cab....good thing....mabait si Manong Alex, our taxi driver....his price is reasonable naman so we asked him to be our official service...

1st Activity: LUNCH!
We are too hungry that we ignore all the people offering souvenir items.....
Grabe, the restaurants are too far from our place pala! So the first resto that we saw, dun na lang kami naglunch....Good thing the food is not bad....or maybe because we're too hungry that all the food that we eat are delicious hehe....
MENU:
1 Sinigang na baboy
1 Chopsuey
2 Buttered Chicken
4 Plain Rice
1 Big Mineral Water

2nd Activity: Island Hopping
Syempre we look for an affordable boat to rent....we have to stick within our budget....We thought there's gonna be a more than 1 island that we're going to visit..."Island Hopping" nga di ba?....hehe one island lang pala yung pupuntahan namin....Balicasag Island....We are too excited to go snorkling and see different kinds of fishes....so off we go....at first, we're sailing smoothly....but after sometime...the waves are getting bigger....grabe, our boat is small and the water is splashing on us already.....no one is showing a sign of worry but D is screaming everytime the water is splashing on us....hehe nakakabingi!!!! Ang tinis pa naman ng boses niya hehe......at last we're near the island already....kaya lang it took us a long time before we found a place to go snorkling....sulit naman yung pagod....there are a lot of colorful fishes....we saw violet star fishes!!!! Ang ganda!!!



3rd Activity: DINNER!
Nagutom kami sa kakalangoy...so as early as 6:30 we had dinner na....
MENU:
1 Beef with oyster sauce
1 Grilled Squid
1 Grilled Porkchop
1 Grilled Pork Belly
1 Coke
4 Plain Rice