The beach getaway

In the weekend of 6th till 8th July Nana and I went to Davao for Sheila (Nana’s sister) and Rage’s wedding. Friday we spent the whole day in Davao, going for lunch, shopping, relaxing, meeting Nana’s family (they are so nice, really great people!) and telling family tales. Saturday morning we had to get up early, get washed and dress up for the wedding: first we drove to the church where Sheila and Rage exchanged vows, and then we were of to the boat that took us to Samal Island, a beach resort just 15 minutes from Davao. We stayed in this resort called Paradise island, and it was!!! We had lots of fun swimming, tanning and mostly eating! There was chicken barbeque, a lechon de leche (a roasted pig – this one wasn’t really leche anymore, it weighed 11 kilos- but still tender and good), a great chocolate cake, sashimi, …). And on Sunday morning room service for the 1st time in my life: Pancakes with strawberry jam and syrop + a cappuccino. DELICIOUS! We spend almost the whole day on the beach again, listening to Nana tell funny stories of her trips abroad, playing with Reema and Kallee (Nana’s nieces), and getting mangosteen and the sweet pomelo Davao is famous for. On Sunday night we flew back (temporarily stressed out though: our plane was delayed due to engine problems, and then when we went in, we sat on the 2nd row and I kept thinking (it was too freezing cold to sleep!!!) “if we crash, we’ll die too since we’re so close to the cockpit!” Fortunately, we arrived safely in Manila past midnight. And then it was just another work week, sweating over the new program 2008-2010 that we need to finish before I’m off to India in August and there’ still loads to do…