Two years after she
first visited Isla Verde, Edith returned with her kids Jewel and
Yuri. With her, came our high school pals, Cherry and Raquel. They
had a long trip and when they arrived I welcomed them with lunch.
Edith brought with her, some dinuguan, pork and liver adobo. I
cooked for her, our famous fish, sinang na tulingan with brown rice.
They all enjoyed
their meal, then after lunch they decided to take siesta. I took
some cans of beer to the gazebo bear the sea where Cherry, Edith and
I chatted until they fell asleep.
They woke refreshed and we decided
to entertain ourselves with some videoke. Edith is a good singer,
but we could not beat Cherry, who scored 98.. It was Cherry's first
time to hold the mike and sing along, so we all kept laughing and
teasing her. After a while the kids woke up and joined us. Yuri
really enjoyed singing and we couldn't get the microphone away from
him. So we just enjoyed drinking some beers and chatting while we
listened to him.
As it began to get
dark we had dinner, then went to bed because we planned an early boat
tour of the island next day. We decided to sleep in the gazebo by
the sea. Jewel, Raquel and I had a long chat until we fell asleep.
They loved the sea breeze, which makes the night cooler and with the
gentle breeze and the soft sound of the waves, sleep comes easily.
My helper, Daisy and
I woke at 4am and began preparing food for breakfast and for our boat
tour. We had to begin early as we were leaving at 8am. Raquel
joined us in the kitchen and cooked pansit bihon (a type of stir
fried noodles). At 7am we enjoyed breakfast of pansit bihon, hotdog,
longganisa, fried tinapa, smoked milk fish with white rice. After
our breakfast, we started to packed up our stuff, for our boat tour.
We left the resort
at 8am, and our first stop was at San Agapito, where Sawang and
Surfing Interval are located. It's a good swimming area, so we all
enjoyed swimming and played in the water. Whenever a boat passed by,
waves pushed us to the shore, and all of us laughed, and enjoyed the
feeling of the sand against our skin. We stayed there for a few
hours, then decided to sail to Cueva for our lunch. In Cueva, Cherry
and I collected some shells which she wanted to bring home. We
enjoyed sitting in the water, eating mangoes.
About 1pm, we
decided to go back to the resort, since Jewel felt sleepy and the sea
current changes. On our way home, we passed in the Globe area, took
some pictures of the rock formations. We stayed there
awhile then sailed back to the resort.
Everyone, enjoyed
the boat tour. Yuri said that in June he'll bring his classmates
from Taiwan. And Jewel will be back with her friends too. As Edith
loves the island, she didn't take her medicine for maintenance for 2
days. A relief for her, as she found our place so stress free!
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