The Diary of a Boracay Virgin - (last installment)

DAY 3- Feb.14 (Monday - V Day)

6:30 am. Room. ~Since it's our last day at Fridays Bora, we started the day early (for real na - haha!)... We ordered breakfast (Filipino breakfast of garlic rice, tocino, longganisa, egg, watermelon shake and coffee) and had it delivered to our room. We later on decided to eat in our veranda. After eating, we started packing some of our things already and got ready for the adventures of the day.

8:00 am. Trike ride on our way to the "new" talipapa. ~We haven't finished shopping for pasalubong and i wanted to look at what remained of the talipapa (which was burned down 3(?) weeks ago) so start of day 3 was scheduled for a trip to Station 3.

8:15 am. White Beach, Station 3. ~The trike driver had mistakenly understood us and dropped us off at the real talipapa... which was the wet market. Fortunately, the talipapa we're looking for was not that far (we just had to walk for around 10 minutes)... The new le'pangks was just lined up on the beachfront (behind the old one) with all kinds of stuff being sold at prices slightly lower than at D'mall and other stores on the White Beach. I had fun shopping! I knew there were no more spaces left in our luggage for the pasalubongs we had, so we had to buy a bag to place some of them. After shopping, we started to walk back to Fridays. We met a LOT of bangkeros on our way who offered and asked if we wanted to go boating, snorkeling, or island hopping. We only had one answer for them. "Tapos na ho. Tsaka, pauwe na ho kame eh"... But when somebody asked us if we wanted to go jet-skiing. I got really disappointed...If only we still had time... haaaayy....

9:30am. Station 1. Jonah's shake resto ~A must-do in Bora is to visit Jonah's and drink one of their famous shakes. We had their best-seller, the choco-banana-peanut shake. It's a perfect way to cool-off after a long walk at the beach. aaaah!

9:45am. Willy's rock. ~Another must-do in Bora. We visited the grotto on top of Willy's rock.

10:00am. Fridays resort. ~We had our last swim at the beach and afterwards, we tried the freshwater swimming pool at Fridays before we left. At around 11, we showered and got ready to go home.

12:05pm. Boat ride to Caticlan. ~Jon checked-out at the counter minutes before, and at exactly noontime, a Fridays resort officer knocked on our room, collected our luggage and led the way to the Fridays boat. Our boat was much bigger compared to the one they used to transport us from Caticlan to Bora. And yes, we were the only Fridays guests in it.

We were more than contented with the whole package and service that Fridays gave us. The resort is just superb! Room is impeccable, food is great and the service faultless. The whole experience with them just proved why they are the number 1 resort in Bora.

We felt a little sad going home so soon... but we were comforted by the idea that we'll be going back come Holy Week (though we're staying somewhere else). Yay!!! =)

12:20pm. Caticlan. ~When we arrived at the jetty port, we were escorted to the coaster van of Fridays. I thought at first that this will be our ride going to Kalibo airport, but i was wrong. The van was to drop us off to the bus station which was 2 minutes away. The bus left at around 12:30 and we were off to the airport... We dozed off during the almost 2-hour ride.

2:15pm. Kalibo airport. ~After checking in our bags at the airport, we had lunch at one of the resto outside. We bought more pasalubong after and went back to the gate to await boarding.

5:00pm. Plane. ~Supposedly, our flight was scheduled at 4:20 pm, but the plane was late so we were delayed. This time, I let Jon take the window seat and he was ecstatic. First time... hahaha!

5:45pm. Centennial Airport. ~Manila touchdown. We're home safe! ...and along with the Bora souvenirs, we brought with us..., the memories of the best Valentine celebration ever... =)