For this year’s Holy Week, we went to Batangas. I went with mama, sahia, and hunbun. Lots of pictures in Memories .

On April 14, we made our way to Batangas. We stopped over at Chowking Lipa for lunch. Then we headed to Blue Coral Resort. There were a lot of people taking their vacation there! *hehe* The place was small but nice enough. Our room was clean - with TV, DVD player, mini refrigerator, and aircon. Oh, the four of us stayed in one room only. We transferred all our things from the car and finally got settled around noon. It was way too hot at that time to swim just yet so we spent the afternoon playing tong-its. We got around to changing into our swimsuits, putting on a lot of sun block, and went to the beach around 6pm. Night swimming is fun especially when you have your own salbabida. It was nice to star gaze too… Dinner followed but I really don’t like the food they served. Then, we sang on the karaoke machine (Php5.00 per song) and watched The Longest Yard before going to sleep.

We all woke up really early the next day. Mom bought us all taho to eat as pre-breakfast. Hunbun and I swam a little bit while mom bought some pearls from the vendors there. At around 7 in the morning, hunbun and I rode the jet ski. It wasn’t as fun as I expected because the water was really choppy and we couldn’t go too far. I prefer the one in Subic better.

Lunch was really a let down at Blue Coral… We checked out shortly afterwards and switched to Laiya Coco Grove Resort. The lunch there was so much better - and so was the service! Well, Coco Grove was more expensive so that came with the price. Our lodging there was atop a tree house and surprising comfortable. Around 4:30pm, a tour guide my mom knew fetched us from our room to bring us to their White Beach extension. We went there to ride the Flying Fox. It was incredibly hard to go up the tree but the ride was fun. I was scared but the ride was too short to really get freaked out. Besides, I rode it twice. Then, our tour guide took us on a mini jungle trekking. We crossed the rope bridge and helped each other out on the “tilting cooperative bridge”. It was fun since I rarely go adventuring. Hunbun and I then took a walk on the shore while mom dipped in the water. We took another jeep ride back to the main resort. Upon arriving, I quickly jumped on the trampulin. I felt like a kid! *haha* I like the feeling of being bounced around. After dinner, we all went for a night swim in the heated swimming pool. I almost drowned in the shallow water - trying to sit atop the floating device is not good. *lol*

April 16 was our last day of vacation. We started the day by going snorkling! The last time I went snorkling was way back in Boracay. I was hesitant at first to get into the ocean since I don’t know how to swim but I managed to get over my fear. My nice snorkling gear and life vest obviously helped. We brought some food to lure the fishies and there were a lot of them. We all had a really nice time and we were all reluctant to get back on the boat. After lunch, we got ready to leave for Manila. But mom wanted to resort hop a little and check out other vacation spots. We toured La Luz Resort and the ambience there was really relaxing. Afterwards we finally drove back home. We stopped over Chowking again for merienda and I bought hunbun his favorite One Red Tea at a gas station. We had a nice dinner at Little Asia.

Still, nothing beats home sweet home.