20 things i learned after staying one month in boracay

1. I hate to clean the house

2. drinking and partying has a limit of 8 days straight, after that, johnny walker black no longer taste good.

3. Its good to go to Boracay in June, the beach is so clean and clear

4. I have become a prune in the past year.

5. Never assume or judge.

6. Sea wind resort is really the best

7. Count your blessings. being able to do something I've always wanted to do made me realize I was truly bless, therefore...

8. ... If you are blessed, you can be more generous, nice and understanding. It is really overwhelming those people who overcame the odds in living life in poverty, war or tragedy (i don't mean breaking up with your current boy toy or loosing you Chanel bag) and still loves life.

9. Don't put important stuff on a chair after a drunken night.

10. You cannot teach what you don't do.

11. You cannot push change on someone

12. there is no need to bashful about Sex with the hubby.

13. Really spend time playing with the kids.

14. I may never quit smoking

15. Its really liberating to not care if you fit well in your bikini.

16. My husband used to be a boy bander.

17. dedicate you life to something- mine, improve the lives of the people closest to me

18. the best bug spray is the sea water. when you swim on the sea and not shower to lie down on the beach, the bugs won't bother you as much as when you shower or swam on the pool.

19. Drink water after drinking lots of alcohol

20. I really want a beach house

Brad and Angelina did come to Boracay part 1

As we are pushing on our third week in boracay, we had our friends and brother come over. It was the hubby's brother's bday so we decided to celebrate at the Shangrila Boracay Resort.

A few nights back we were having a few drinks with our neighbors, they mentioned that one of the local residents, while playing golf at the Fairways and Blue Waters, chance upon a helicopter landing and saw Brad and Angelina with their kids going down. He tried to say hi but a but they had overprotective bodyguards. Theywere also saying this is the second time Brad was here. They stayed in the Shangrila. My sister in law met and chat with an employee of the hotel, while waiting to be re routed to kalibo because of the Zest air plane that overshot the runway, asked if if it was indeed true. That person only gave her a guilty smile.

Anyway. We went to Solana Lounge and had sunset cocktails which had this view, we literally sat on that cabana. That is the private beach of Shangrila. They have 2, one is shared with club Panoly.

The drinks were good, the service was good too. They had this great ashtray, that people would like to take home. They said that their signature drink is the lychee martina, but too bad they only had 2 pieces of lychee (which is actually quite disappointing for a Shangrila, i would think they grow everything)

Shangrila was just amazing, you feel that you are no longer in the country. I haven't seen the rooms and Daisy from the guest services said that the lowest is about 14k a night which is actually not bad, if you're a couple plus 2 kids. They have the same adventure zone in Shangrila mactan. They have their own jetty port, a big jacuzzi pool and an upcoming italian restaurant that is situated on the cliffs, which is made to be the most romantic spot in the island. They have a building complex as housing for their staff, thencarved the side of the mountain for their access road.

The hotel looked like a few billion bucks, and probably is.

(coming up: food review)

Kid activities in Boracay: marine walk

this was cool.  Its like retro diving.  Good activity for kids.  the service with Napoleon Water activities was good. It cost us P500 per person.  Make sure that they don't use compressed air, which has a funny smell and might cause dizziness.  We used tanks for diving.  You go about 10 feet and feed the fish or walk the waterbeds.  Too bad my kids had colds that day, they couldn't equalize.

This was Aly and At trying to learn diving signs.

bohemian beach

We had a good time today, we totally felt like bohemian travelers by going to the other tip of the white beach of Boracay to Angol point.  This part is not so popular but we kinda like it here cause no one seems to be around. We placed a sarong on the sand, sunbathe while listening to Jobim.

  We had an arsenal of sunblocks, my kids are so dark already we needed spf 70.  I on the other hand doesn't seem to get to keep a tan.  i always need to apply Maui Babe, something i learned from my friend Jeena, which my hubby calls food coloring. 

We spent the afternoon catching little crabs and playing jailers to them, body surfing (waves are very strong this time of the year in this part of the island), eating ice cream etc.

Day 2: Hang out

This is the second day of our vacation.  We decided to go to our favorite resort, Sea wind.  We come here every year and we kinda know everybody.  Its a good place to hang out with kids,  we are also attending a wedding here in a few weeks.

This morning i woke up with an urge to clean our rented house, this is something i hate doing or never learned to do.  As i would tell my friends I'm no good in household management, only events and marketing campaign.   Maybe after this trip i'll be a lot neater.

Places I'm looking forward to eating at or doing  here in boracay:

Eat in: Fridays Boracay: foie Gras is the best

     Lemoni Cafe: Mango Cookies

     Seawind Seafoof Buffet

     PAradiso: Grilled Food

     Aria: pasta and Salads

will try Shangrila resto as well.

Doing : Read a book by the beach

      Massage everyday

     Do nothing.