On our third day, we didn't have much planned aside from our salubong at night.
The three of us guys in our group decided to have breakfast while the girls decided to stay behind as they were still unprepared. I was still feeling the hangover from the previous night but I managed to get myself out of bed. We decided to eat in a resto that we previously saw that serves typical breakfast food called the 928 Grill. The food was good but the service could use some improvement. They were unprepared for serving change and our change were given as we were almost done eating. Their service was also quite slow. Since the girls weren't really finished, we decided to go ahead and try to look for souvenirs from nearby stores. We were quite unsuccessful so we decided to go back to the room. The girls were not there and we found out that they left to eat already.
The three of us decided to get a full body massage which was very rampant in the island. It lasted for an hour and we felt so refreshed after. We had lunch at a resto called Bite Club and had dessert in a popular store called Halowich which served some kind of halo halo with different fruits. It was flocked by plenty of people when we got there which is why we wanted to try it.
Our free time without the girls opened up some opportunity to have some bro talk which got quite personal. It was also why the girls were quite distant to us in the entire day.
After we finished eating and talking, we bought a frisbee and decided to play for a while. We also decided to swim in the beach. It was our third day on the island and we realized that we haven't swam in our first two days aside from our snorkeling gig in the island hopping the previous day. The girls finally joined us as we tried to avoid any tension between us and enjoyed the sunset. Thankfully, everybody acted normal.
As the night were coming close, we prepared ourselves for Cocomangas, a bar where someone can take a 15-shot challenge and be part of the hall of fame if successful.
But before going to the bar, we had to eat dinner first and we went to station one where Jonah's milkshakes were. It was another popular food attraction in the island which I've wanted to try since we arrived. The food was just average but the drinks were quite good enough! There wasn't so many customers by the time that we went there so we were able to have a nice conversation between ourselves.
When we finished, we headed straight to the bar and got redirected to their second bar since the first one was full. The one where we got seated was a bigger one and more fit for partying. We had our share of drinks and played the entire night. We also spent some time dancing crazy steps which will come in handy for future partying!
It was the perfect way to celebrate our friend's birthday! The night was so wild that our friend actually got so drunk and we had to literally carry and drag her back to the hostel. It was a challenge but it will be something we can take a look back on and laugh about.
On our last day, we woke up quite late so we skipped breakfast and had lunch in Tres Amigos again because it was so good and we couldn't think of other places to eat. We initially decided to splurge in a fancy restaurant but I think everyone was just so tired and broke at that point. We checked out by noon and left our bags in the lobby since our departure from the island was still late afternoon.
We had some time to buy some pasalubong and souvenirs. We got some food for the team and I got myself some tanktops. We had some time to roam around the island and even interview people and take more pictures.
By 4 pm, we were picked up by a van going to the port. We rode the boat back to Caticlan and rode a bus back to Kalibo. We bought our dinner at some restaurant outside the airport since there were no food stalls or restos inside. Since flights for the following day were mostly cancelled due to APEC and our flight was the last one of the day, there weren't a lot of passengers waiting. We had time to eat dinner as well as play some games on the second floor. It was announced that our 9PM flight was going to be delayed for at least an hour so we had a lot of bum time. I didn't mind it since I enjoyed spending some more time with them.
The delay took less than an hour and we were able to board the plane even before 10 PM. We landed safely in Manila where I took a grabcar to go home.
Our entire stay was quite memorable and it somehow felt short but I do not regret any part of it. I was with the best people I could have asked for and I'm looking forward to going on more trips with them.
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