It's been a week since I had blogged and phew! Finally! I was out for the whole week having my vacation with my family. It may be my last summer vacation for the meantime since I will be having my OJT (hopefully) next summer. So where was I anyway? Well I indeed escaped from my problems that I have right now and traveled to Cebu which is in Visayas here in the Philippines.
Day 1 - Goodbye Manila... for the Meantime
During the flight, I managed to take a picture of the clouds outside. It was so awesome to see such puffy clouds in the sky which makes me calm.
Here is the picture of the clouds outside our airplane which was Cebu Pacific
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| Clouds Outside Our Plane |
I was so sleepy on the day we were about to leave for Cebu. But I didn't know it would be a bit shorter flight than the other flights I have been which usually takes 2-3 hours. But going to Cebu takes around 1 hour and 15 minutes which made me feel like this somehow once we were about to land.
So we landed first in Mactan and finally got to check in at Crimson Resort. One thing that surprised me is that there are a few Filipinos checked in than the foreigners. Mostly here are Koreans and Chinese. But still, going back, the place is so beautiful and peaceful as if you feel at home. Here are some of the pics.
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| Playground and Kiddie Station |
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| Welcoming Refreshment from Crimson |
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| Fail reenactment of being serious :)) |
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| Me, Myself and I |
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| My bro having some of it |
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| My loving parents |
After a few minutes, we were called since our room was ready. After going to our room and fixing our clothes and stuff, we then decided to hit the pool. I was a bit excited to wear my dress and have a photoshoot by the beach but due to the sun being so bright and a lot of people were swimming in the beach, I decided to have the photoshoot tomorrow early morning. So here are some pics by the pool.
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| Yes! I am in my dress and my awesome shades. |
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| Me and my shy bro in the salt water pool |
We had dinner after swimming which was around 7 and we got to have dessert. My mom bought me a Crimson Royale Cake.
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| Crimson Royale Cake |
After which, we hit the sacks for me and my bro will be up early for the photoshoot by the beach.
2nd Day - Goodbye Crimson, Hello Marriott
Me and my brother woke up around 6am to have a mini photoshoot by the beach. I thought at first I would be the only one who will be pictured but a bit after, my bro want it as well. So here are some of them
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| Forgive me for I'm poor at posing |
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| My bro on the hill |
After the photoshoot, we head back to change, had breakfast and checked out to move to Marriott which is a bit far from Crimson. But the good thing here is that the Marriott hotel is connected to Ayala Center Cebu. So if we want to go to the mall, we just go down and walk a few minutes. Here are some of the pics in our room in Marriott and in Ayala Center Cebu.
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| Me and my mom in our room in Marriott |
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| Me and my bro hitting the first steps in The Terraces at Ayala Center Cebu |
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| Me and My mom in The Terraces in Ayala Center Cebu |
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| My dad in The Terraces in Ayala Center Cebu |
We got then to look around. It was awesome in The Terraces because there is a grassy area where you can just lie down and relax. The mall is so big but for me I find Greenbelt better than Ayala Center Cebu :( We had lunch and dinner here and even had Starbucks since it was Frappuccino hour!
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| Java Chip Frappuccino |
3rd Day - Going Out
It was already the 3rd day in Cebu and we haven't been to any of those known places in Cebu. I suggested to them we go to Magellan's Cross since me and my brother haven't been there yet. So we did. I was expecting the cross to be big. It was a hunch though since I didn't know how big the cross is. But seeing it is like what I see usually in altars in chapels. Here's a picture of it.
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| Magellan's Cross |
We then head after to SM Cebu to go around and have lunch. We then head on to the Crown Regency Hotel to have an awesome Sky Adventure. Me and my mom were the only ones to experience it since both the boys are scared of heights :)))) (GIRLS RULE!!!) We had 3 options but we can take them all but since we don't have enough money, we decided to take only one which is Extreme Skywalk wherein we go outside of the 37th floor and we walked on a stained glass and we are tied to the rope to move around and see Cebu as well some parts of Bohol and Tagbilaran. I felt a bit sad not being able to try the zipline which is in the 42nd floor- outside that is like the extreme sky walk. What does it make it "extreme" you say? How does it feel being ziplined to the other building within 8 seconds and you go back within a minute and your hanging there seeing how high you are at the moment. How do you feel now. Chilled? Goosebumps? Frightened? Nothing? Meh! :)) Anyways after that we got to eat lechon for dinner! Finally! A specialty of Cebu! It was so soft and tender. Even the skin is not that hard to chew.
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| CnT Lechon in Ayala Center Cebu |
4th Day - BUM DAY!!!
You see it right! I'm not joking. We didn't do anything much on this day. Spent the time mostly in the hotel. My dad and my brother had swimming while I enjoy seating in a long chair protected by the cloth from the sun and reading Catching Fire that day.
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Me and my bro's Catching Fire book since he was still
reading The Hunger Games book that time |
5th Day - GOODBYE CEBU!
It was already the last day of Cebu and I was a bit sad and happy at the same time. Finally going home but sad cause I will miss Cebu a lot even if there weren't much of places to go. But still it was a fun trip. Looking forward to go to other places here in the Philippines in my future travels. Till next time y'all.
XOXO,
D <3
