Boracay Paalam sa ngayon!

Tuesday was a lovely mellow day of beach laying, book reading, pancit eating and ocean swimming!

We did the normal go back to the room and veg/nap/tv watch 5-8pm. As we were getting ready to clean up and go out on the town (peruse the beach), I notices a loud sound. The sound was torrential rain beating down and flooding our pool area outside, capsizing our little island. Along with the rain came a lightening show. It was pretty. The rain stopped by 8:45, so we ventured out with our umbrellas to find some food and drink.

We walked down to this little Italian restaurant called Aria that we like, and sat on the beach under the tarps between the palm trees. Suddenly before we could even get order drinks, it started pouring again. This wa

sn't rain like Seattle, this was a tropical downpour and also included some wind. People started scattering trying to find shelter. Meanwhile as the wind blew the rain under our restaurant's tarp probably about 30 of us all stood up and gathered to the center of the tarp as all our tables started to get drenched. We stood there for a good 15-20 minutes and watched the tarp starting to fill up with pools of water and sag. Yikes!

As soon as the rain again slowed down to a slow drizzle we both put up our umbrellas and hopped between sand puddles to a different Italian restaurant Don Vitos that has inside seating. We were kinda soaked from the waist down but so was the entire town. As soon as we sat the rain came again, but this time we were safe. The best part of then watching the crowds scatter again, was that the restaurant had Grey Goose and made me a yummy dirty martini and it was only 120 pesos ($3 US).

We finished the dinner and ran across to the tent by our hotel where our favorite trio group was singing. There were awesome and sang Go Go's 'Head over Heals' for us and then Ga Ga's 'Pokerface'.

Today, Wednesday 3/2/11, we breakfasted in our hotel's yummy buffet for the last time. Then we hung at the beach under cover and read our books until our pick up at 2pm.

Boracay Paalam sa ngayon! Good bye for now oh beautiful island.

We then vanned back to the south shore, and water taxied to the bigger island Malay, and bussed to Caticlan, and then flew the 1 hour back to the north biggest island of Luzon and got to Manila at 6pm. It took an hour to taxi across town, and we ended up in a new upcoming part of town called the BGC, or Bonifacio Global City. It's all high rise condos and planned hoods. We are renting a condo now for then next 5 days. It is an adorable 2 story loft.

We had some yummy sushi with Noel's sis Magic and bro Jun at 9pm. Now after watching a little TV...it's off to la la land. Tomorrow...shopping, spa, and walking tour of old town Manila.