It's still hard to believe that we have done this trip alone without my hunsand, only I and my naughty son.
I can tell you it's the toughest job that I've ever done before. From Day One, on the airplane we got the worst experience
which was really driven me crazy and upset. Luckily, there was a nice flightattend who companied with my son talking and
walking around the deck so I was able to have my nick steak and wine for lunch. She Amanda...something, about thirty five,
I guessed, she knew how to please and calm the crazy child down.
Actually, my son, Kian, was really afraid of flying in the sky or felt painful about the pressure in his ears, just too bored
in this-three-hour flight.
After landing in Boracay, we had a rush lunch again, because my son didn't really eat in the plane. We picked a Greece resaurant
which was famous, we ordered a grilled chicken and drinks. I had a glass of ice Ceylon tea, and my sister, Queennie had a glass of
mango juice, of course, Kian had his juice.
We just spent half an hour finishing the lunch, and then Kian was tired and getting out of control again. Yeah...It was near three in the
afternoon, and he wanted his sleep.We called a pedicab as soon as possible and headed to our village, Shangri-la where my friends were expecting
us.
On our way to Shangri-la, Kian fell asleep on the pedicab. Wow... What a relief for us!
I checked in our villa, and we took a buggy to our villa downhill. We passed the area of hotel and saw a lot of green palm trees, artifical beach and
pool where was really looked like a paradise. Shangri-la village is divided two parts; one is suite room for your limit budget
and the other is villa for your luxurious vocation.
As usual, we like to choose a comfortable and relaxing place to stay during our stay in an island, so Shangri-la is our ideal.
After five minutes, we arrived our villa.
Queennie, who was amazed by the view she saw, got her camera clicking crazily in front of the front yard.
The waiter moved our luggage inside, and I held Kian followed him. Leaving her outside enjoy.
We got a nice bright living room on first floor; there was a flat TV big enough for eight people watching together, but it was
not going to be our option, nice sofa set around and filled with the smell of the breeze from the sea.
There was also a kitchen providing everything we want if we got the feeling to cook something ourselves, well....that wasnt'
my option, either. Gill might do it sometime.
Our room was behind the kitchen, we walked out the main house on a small path to another cabin where we shared with Mark and
his boyfriend. One minute walking, we entered the room we had.
Two double bed, and a single bed, nice place to sleep, were located in the middle of the room.
On the left side of door, it
was our perfect bathroom which provded us a representative place, most of that, there was a SPA bathtub. Not to mention, the
shower gel, body lotion, shampoo, conditioner, Spa powder, soap, tooth brush, hair brush.....everything would be changed daily
, even without using it.
In our mini bar, we had soft drinks, beer and wine in our refrigerator, of course, they would be charged
after checking out. Some local snack and famous brand cookies, like Cheetos and Walker were placed in the drawer freely; few
bags of famous tea, Dilmah, and instand coffee, Nestle were also provided for us.
Next to our beds, was a small balcony which we could easy get to Mark's room via the tiny path surrounding by some white flowers.
We also had a simple desk so we could had a minute to figure what to write in our dairy, or arrange our plan for next day.
A wardrobe, and a dressing table were what should be in this room.
I love my room without doubt.
After Queennie coming, she took a shower and took a nap with my son, and I sneaked out to look for my friends who were supported
to lay on the beach chair near our standard pool.
Yeap! It was the start of my fablous trip in Boracay.
A small gathering at night was nesassary for us tonight in our living room.
Gill cooked the nice but easy dinner for us and Graham brought bace unlimitation of alchohol for this small party.
I had introduced my sister, Queennine, and my son, Kian shortly for them, who didn't meet them yet. Graham was suprised to
know the name of my son, Kian, because some kinds of reasons.
Eddie and his girlfriend, Malina, were new comers this year from New York. They acquainted Mark during a business trip in Dublin
, and then stepped in our circle of friendship. Eddie was handsome in some way, near my age, fit body, mature and humorous
talking and attractive in his age.
Malina, a blond hair and tan skin woman, got along with Jody well, because they had something in common.
I spent most of time chatting with Gill whose hunsband was my fancy ten years ago. Hahaha...
We talked a lot about taking care of children, cooking, patching and shopping. She's always nice to talk.
Steven was always Steven, sitting silently, drinking silently, but listening to everyone's talking and sometimes interrupting
some words to suprise us.
Mark was trying to have some chat with my sister, but he failed. Queennie got limit of speaking English to express herself, and
she just replied "yeah, um..," and smiled.
We had a nice night on our first day.
Second day, I, Jody, Egan and Graham were heading to have our first diving in Boracay. Queennie stayed at our private beach with
my son, since she wasn't in getting in the water.
We had a short pre-diving lesson before we got into the sea, then rented the suit and equipment.
We were very excited getting on the boat and set out our diving trip for a half day.
I followed behind Jody, and Egan followed me as usual in the sea. Graham was the leader to get us on the right way to go and
back. He was a great diver.
There were lot of colorful fishes which I couldn't barely recognize them; clown fish was there, of course, black and yellow
fish I could alway remember them but know nothing about them, and many other spicies which I first saw.
When we got on the shore, it was near lunch time. We headed to D'mall to meet others for lunch.
We met in another Greece restaurant, called Ole, and I was so relieve when I saw Queennie was there with my son. God bless!
She knew how to come here, and it was the first time she was alone in a foreign country.
We had a happy Greece lunch and then shopped in D'mall in the afternoo. We walked back to Shangri-la along the beach, and
this time, Queenine got much talking with my friends and she was really happy about it.
I enjoyed a SPA in our bathroom for an hour this night, and had mask on my face to whiten. I don't want to get dark skin when
I am back from this trip. to
Third day, they were going to diving and fishing again, but I chose to stay with my family today.
We had a wonderful breakfast in the international buffet restaurant in our village; there were at least seven nations dishes offering
until ten in the morning, several hot and cold drink to choose, and fresh salad and fruit to bite.
We had almost an hour eat breakfast and then we took a pedicab to the downtown.
D'mall was the only market which we could do some shopping and enjoyed the local food. We took our time walking and shopping
around there; Queennie had bought some iron-making baralects and necklaces for her girl-friends and keyrings as souveniors.
I, didn't buy anything yet, because I just wanted to buy dried mangoes back to Taiwan.
Due to the late breakfast, we skipped lunch to have an afternoon tea in Jony's cafe which was well-known for its best mango
smooth and pancakes.
Relaxing day we had.
Tonight, I was planning to go the bars with them, so I had to make Kian sleep soon.
Near 10:30, I GOT FREE TO GO.
I walked to CoCo Bar with Mark and his boyfriend, Keth, and the others were already there.
We had fun like we always do, chatting nonsense, playing silly games, dancing stupid moves, and reviewing someone's accidents
until the dawn and we walked back together.
You wouldn't believe that Eddie was the funniest person I've ever seen before. He was kind of tipsy and talking his story in
his career. He was a part-time actor in New York, and had stirred in some espisodes. After few more drinks down, he started
dancing around and kissing his girl and then jumped on the table to claim there was a HUGE SNAKE moving on the ground.
That was nut.
It was the highlight this night.
Fouth day, we all went sailing around the island, including our little children. We had waited for forty minutes to get on the
sailing ship while Koa and Kian were playing sand on the beach.
It took us sixty minutes to sail around the island and to take pictures on the crocodile island.
It was a brand new experience to us. It was our first time to sail, all of us.
The water kept spilled up to us while the ship was sailing in stardard speed. Nicole, Lilly, Shane, Koa and Kian were screaming
all the way. They were too excited to be calm and I couldn't totally understand that, because I was in that too.
When we were back, we had lunch in Andok's. Children loved this store, and we visited two or three times here.
Their grill chicken was special with the way they grilled it. It got the smoky smell, but always guaranteed juciy.
Shane and Graham got their hot dogs from another shop, no reason, they loved it.
If we counldn't find them in D'mall, they had to be there.
After lunch, we seperated different way to have our private time.
Some of us went back to villa to enjoy the equipment that village provided, and some of us did suvenior shopping.
I had a date with my so-call best friend in a beach-view restaurant, Discovery Beach Restaurant.
We had talked a lot about our life after seperating this May, well.....nothing moved ahead. None of us mentioned anything
happened during the beginning of 2014. I think we had forgiven each other, and I believe so.
Fifth day, I, Queennie, my son, Mark and his boyfriend, Keth, had to leave early, because we had another place to go.
Yes, it was the time to visit Japan with my husband, Max.
I got just few pictures in Boracay because of Kian, and believe me that I was going to have lots in Japan.
They escorted us to the airport and we flew back to Taiwan to change our suitcase and set off to Japan for a real shopping
trip, and they stayed there to embrace their sunny holidays.
