Countdown to Boracay

 Hi Everyone! 

This post is going to be short because we didn’t really do much today. It was mostly just traveling and hanging around town with Issa’s and Auntie Weng’a family before our flight to Boracay tomorrow! 

This morning we took a walk around the neighborhood with Uncle Vic’s cousin and it ended up being quite the workout. I thought it was going to be a leisurely little stroll but it ended up being lots of tiny hills for a 3.4 km walk in the hot sun despite us leaving at 7 am. 

After finishing our walk, we were rewarded with suman which is a sweet sticky rice covered in coconut syrup.

We then left Nuvali to travel to Manila and spent some time at the mall. Isabel and I finished our books this morning so we indulged in another one of our new favorite genre. What was even funnier was when we actually had to share the aisle with teenage girls who had just gotten out of school and were picking up the same books we were! I felt like I was in high school all over again giggling over books with friends. I’ll never forget the time in high school where I made Kelly read this book called Jinx, it was an utterly ridiculous story about a teenage witch and we’d laugh at the plot line together until the librarian told us to quiet down. 

After the mall we had to visit a lot of Auntie Weng’s extended family. It started with a dinner, which then turned into a coffee with Isabel’s cousin, which then turned in to visiting the houses of Auntie Weng’s sister-in-law’s sister…and so on. By the third house it was 11 pm and I was exhausted and so done. Isabel joked that my Asian side had left the building and the white side came out as I made faux pas after faux pas by refusing food and drinks or asking silly questions about where the curtains came from and whether they were custom ordered instead of just saying how beautiful the house was and how well decorated, (whether or not it was true). What can I say? I had hit my people limit, I was exhausted, and my polite hints at heading home were ignored, so everyone knew they were keeping me around at their own risk. You can see said curtains and rbf in the picture below which Issa manages to sneakily take. 

Anyways, hoping you all are doing well back home and maybe even having a little chuckle at my expense. 

Love you lots,

Carolyn