Day 16 - Puerto Galera

This was Friday.  Our day got started early in the morning.  I'm not sure what time but it couldn't have been any later than 9am.  We were woken up and told to prepare for the day ahead which consisted of a few things starting with Island Hopping.  I got into my board shorts, grabbed a sarong and my iPod and needed nothing more besides my shades that i was wearing straight away.  Note: I did have a bit of a hangover from the fun night before!

So the day starts off with breakfast and at this point i'm thinking to myself, fuck it i'm on holiday!

Bacon, Tapa and Rice.  Fuck yeah! If you notice, i didn't get much rice nor tapa ;)

Oh, and for the hangover, a healthy cup of coffee!  

(did you guys know that coffee is healthy for you?!)

After breakfast we headed out to the boat and went to a nearby island where everyone went snorkeling except for a few of us who stayed behind.  I didn't even bother with a mask and snorkel and quickly got started by swimming off to beyond the reef and treading water by myself for quite awhile before i was joined by a friend.  It was nice out there and when we went to shore we chilled for a while in the hot sun then got back in the water but this time stayed in the shallow and enjoyed great conversation!  When it was time to go, we got out of the water, up onto the boat, and headed back to Coco Beach.  

In no time lunch was served since it was already after 12 noon :)

That is Adobo with mixed vegetables, string beans with some carrots and whatever..healthy shit!

After i was done with lunch, a lunch i didn't entirely enjoy but became one of those, "I'm eating cuz my body needs food and not because i like the food".  So naturally i went back to the pool to digest in preparation of swimming again.  When i got there, my officemates were eating this for dessert!!!

Tanginang Yan!  Chocolate Cake from Valle Verde Country Club!  I had none.

Instead, i put on my iPod, laid out in the sun, and sound tripped!  It was great and i managed to listen to maybe 10 songs before i was drenched in sweat and had to jump into the pool!  Good fun though this sound trip!  Thank you to Led Zep, Steve Miller, Black Crowes, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel!

The next 2 hours were spent in the pool.  This must've been from 1pm - 3pm.  At one point i was literally the only one in this massive pool and when i wasn't, there was just an old couple in there with me.  The sun was fucking shining bright and there were no clouds in sight!  It was beautiful and peaceful and i managed to meditate a few times plus found God by just being at peace holding my breath underwater.

This is a perfect achievement of Mind, Body and Soul and it was beautiful.  I can't explain it but the peace i found in that pool by myself after that great sound trip just really kicked me where i needed to be kicked and i found myself rejuvenated magnificently after that :)

And then came 4our PM, otherwise known as Happy Hour!  At Coco Beach, happy hour is literally just one freaking hour long.  Hahaha i find that kind of funny and somewhat pathetic but whatever man, just drink while you can right?  So, together with a Danish Couple I met earlier in the day and with a Jamaican dude who decided to hang out with us since we were drinking, we enjoyed many topics of conversation over many drinks within a single hour.  These are the Rum Cokes i had :)

1

 2 & 3

 4

 and 5

I forgot, i had 2 san mig lights when it was after happy hour :)

I passed out after these drinks!  Hahaha good fun!  I went back to our room, for the first time since i woke up that morning, to enjoy a nap in bed.  

Apparently, dinner had already been served and wasn't going to wait for me forever so i slept maybe only half and hour and then had to make it out to dinner, or pay for dinner myself and order from the menu but i wanted my money to be spent on other things so i force fed myself this dinner....

soup (not sure what was in it)

 one stick of BBQ with mixed vegetables and chicken + tomato and cucumber salad

And finally I decided to eat the chocolate cake...

In the end i took 2 bites and didn't want any more!

(Good job Belly! You're getting trained!)

After that though was back to being time to drink!  We started with something called a Hot Shot and then i had a bunch of beers!  All San Mig Lights...i guess i'm trying to keep the calories down :)

It's so dark that these are the only pictures i took...but i did list them down on my phone ;)

1 Hot Shot

1 Shot of Tequila

6 San Mig Lights

and endless sips from a bottle of Bacardi Gold.

I almost threw up from being so full of booze but not because i was drunk.

The band never showed up a second time and so we didn't fly anymore...