Bohol Trip - 1st day (10.18.08)

First Day (Oct. 18, 2008)

We stayed for at least one more hour inside the office after our shift. At around 8:45am, Gracey and I went down to Mercury Drugs store to buy a hairbrush and we saw Tim walking inside the parking lot. He said he needed to drop by his office to get his toothbrush and toothpaste. I told him, we'll just meet him at McDo Jaka bldg.

We had breakfast at McDo for at least 45mins. before we decided to head for the NAIA3 airport. On the way to the airport, we saw Jovie (Tim's brother) crossing an intersection.

Since our flight was scheduled for 11:35am (Cebu Pacific, 5J 619), we thought we were still early since we arrived at the airport before 10:30am. Guess we were wrong about this since there was a long line in the check-in counter. Tim even saw a girl officemate also waiting on line. After some picture takings and "kwentuhan", we heard a crew calling out "last call" for Tagbilaran flight. What??? Last call? There wasn't even a first call. We raised our hands to let him know we're on that flight and we're still on line. He told us to line up at Counter 2 or 3 as we gave him our ticket print out. Since we were already late checking in the flight, we didn't get seats beside each other. Tim got 19E, I have 21E, Coy has the 20E and Gracey has 9E. Oh welll.. we really didn't have any choice about the seats. While boarding, there was a guy in front of us who smelled "bad". Coy and I looked at each other and laughed. OMG, I prayed I didn't get to sit with him, I don't think I can hold my breath the whole trip.Ü We then saw him sit at 9D and we wished Gracey good luck since she has to bear more than one hour of the trip beside the smelly guy. Good thing she has a running nose and her smelling senses is not that good.Ü

I was seated in between a guy and a girl. The guy also smelled funny - seems like he was farting every now and them. Yuck! I had to cover my nose while I tried to lean on my other side. After 1hour and 15mins on the air, the captain announced that we were already landing. Yipee! God is good because as I look outside the window, I can see that he gave us a good weather.

When we got our bags, Coy mentioned that Spencer (our tour guide) was waiting for us at the Pier area and not the airport. What??? Coy said we don't have to worry since he is already on the way to the airport. After a few minutes of waiting, we saw a guy approaching us with a "Karen Quiros and company" sign. He introduced himself as "Spencer" and instead of a car (as discussed), he was driving an Avanza which made us more comfortable with our travel from the airport to the resort.

We were so hungry at this time and was looking forward to our first meal in Bohol. Spencer said we can eat at our resort since they serve meals to their guests.

We stayed at Dumaluan Beach Resort (beside Bohol Beach Club). We occupied the Standard Aircon Room (without Breakfast) at Php1,300.00/night. We were given the E5 and E6 rooms. Before heading to our rooms, I looked at the beach and was completely awed by the view in front of me. I'm not a beach person but that time, I was easily converted. This place is a paradise.Ü

We went to check our rooms to drop our bags so that we can already order our lunch. We ordered pancit, calamares and beef steak (Pinoy style). After eating, we stayed at the beach for a few minutes and then we headed back to our rooms to rest.

We were able to sleep for our few hours before dinner time. There was no text message from Coy and Gracey which means they're still sleeping. I had to wake Gracey up to ask her if she wants to have dinner with us. Since Coy was still sleeping and has no sign of waking up, dinner was just between the three of us. After dinner, we decided to call it a day since we have to wake up early the next day for our dolphin watching. Our boat man (Itchem) will meet us at 5:30am so we agreed to try and wake up each other by 5:00am.