Boracay, October 2006

Thursday, October 5,2006 - Monday, October 9, 2006

Boracay

It's been waaay too long since I've been to Boracay. In fact, I had to look it up in this very blog - May 2005! And that was on a team building trip - the last personal trip was in December 2004 to celebrate New Year's Eve with my parents!!! That's close to 2 years ago!!! Believe me you that will not happen again!

This time it was again a special occasion that had to occur in order for me to go; it was Marieke's 29th birthday that did the trick. On October 5, her very birthday day, we set off with Megan and Julian to the little island paradise. I brought a bottle of champagne (a whole struggle you can read in the actual entry either in my recent Journal or in the archives) that unfortunately popped spontaneously as Julian helped taking off the wire. But we made up for that later that evening by buying a second bottle at the bar and finally Marieke popped a bottle of champagne on her birthday.

The next day we met up with a whole bunch of others - we were 10 in total. Party time!!! And that's what we pretty much did the rest of the time - beach, party and sleep. The weather wasn't bad, there was a bit of rain, but that was actually quite nice as we were in the sea at that time and the water was so nice and warm that the rain was a welcome cooling down. There was some serious partying with lots of free shots from the bar people: the first night all together when I ender up with Julian and Pete in a tiny little bar - the only one open - with 3 bar ladies that for some reason thought we were cool even though we didn't really talk with them, or anyone else; the second night in Juice Bar where Marieke and I knew the barman from Manila and he kept giving our group free shots from test tubes - sweet as hell but who cares when it's free? There was also some pole dancing, both good and bad, and a bit of a fight even, so you can safely say that it was a weekend to remember. Planning to go again soon. Very soon. I love Boracay!!!

Read the full story at the entry for October 2006 (either in recent or in the archives...)