Boracay

The weekend after our week long Easter break, we were granted a 4 day holiday by the Philippines President, I have no clue what holiday it way, but I was greatful for it. So my co-work Erin and I went to Boracay, a very small island in the middle of the Philippines, which is considered one of the best beaches in the world (the ranking can vary from #5 to #24 depending on which list your consulting). There we meet up with some of the teachers from the Manila campus of our school and proceeded to do a lot of nothing.  

In front of our hotel.

The first evening we went for a sunset sail.

The water only got rougher from here, and by the end not one of us had an inch that was dry. The next two night the water was smooth and this would not have been an issue. Oh well it was an adventure.

Evening drinks on a hut/bar right on the beach. 

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One of the main things we wanted to do while we were here was try kite surfing. So we purposely booked a hotel on the kite surfing side of the island, which also happened to be the cheaper side, a whole 10 minute walk from the beach on the other side,  (I wasn't excruciating when I said the island was very small). Unfortunately the winds were shifting and the ocean was calm the whole time. So when we woke up one morning and saw this guy kite surfing we got really excited. 

It turned out that this guy was a professional and was training for a competition and unless we had 10 year of intense kite boarding experience, there was no way in hell we were going to get up today. So kite boarding wasn't meant to be. Oh well, we went an lied on the beach, and read books, and swam, and drank fancy fruit drinks with umbrellas in them. Could be worse.