Magandang Umaga, Kabayan – Part 3

WARNING:  I have done my best to whittle down the photos so that this post doesn’t take 20 minutes to read/view and lose everyone’s interest, but I still have 154 photos to pick from.  I will do my best to pick and choose… but it was so beautiful it’s hard to do!

Day 4

The next day we had a lazy morning in the condo, I think we played a few games of Rook and then headed down to White Beach to spend some time on the beach.

White Beach

I thought that maybe by taking a photo of them, some of their exercise might count for me?

White beach, other direction

Paraws (sail boats) and parasailers

And the games continue

After we’d been at the beach for a little while it started to sprinkle.  A & I decided that it was the perfect time to head over and get one of the $10/hr massages on the beach.  While it wasn’t the best massage I’ve ever had, it was worth everyone one of those ten dollars :)    The boys found some cover under the “Red Coconut” where they relaxed for a while.

After A & I met back up with Paul and B, I decided to try to go and see what kind of negotiating I could do for a sunset parasailing trip.  I talked to quite a few people and then decided to wander farther down the beach to see if I could get some better prices.  I got what I thought was a decent price, but it turned out that I walked the wrong way down the beach… farther from where the boats take off for the parasailing, so it wasn’t one of my best negotiating moments :)   Anyways, we decided to go for it that night because we could leave right then and make the sunset.

B walking with our guide to the parasailing boat pick-up area

After signing some waiver forms, we hopped on a little motor boat which took us out to the big boat that we parasailed off of.

We look awfully happy to have just signed our lives away :)

View back towards Boracay from the boat

After a group of some Korean (I think) girls, A & B were next up.  There was a little bit of hesitation from B as he was sure that the board that our harnesses was strapped to was wood.  He was definitely a trooper.

Are you sure this is going to hold us?

What?!?!?

And here we go!

A little dip in the water first

And they're off...  notice the "no hands" from A

Ready for take-off

And we're off!

We were up there quite a ways

Awwwww....  but what this photo doesn't show are the continual comments from Paul about how we'd surely die if we fell from there ;)

Note the windblown hair

A bit of a tricky landing

It was a great time.  Then as we got back to the beach, we were able to catch some great shots of the sunset.

Willy's Rock

Coming in after a day's work in the sun

Ummm....  does this remind anyone else of Paul?

After snapping what was probably too many sunset shots, we headed back to the Red Coconut where we showered at their pool shower and had a few appetizers and drinks.  From there, we headed down the beach in search of a Mongolian Grill for dinner.  We (and by we, I mean they) were tempted by a few other stands along the way that were showing off some fresh seafood, but we ended up making it to our destination.

Love the sun screened eyebrows

Checking out the local fare

This is what?!?

Mmmm... Yummy Mongolian!

After the delicious dinner, we headed back to D*mall where our hotel’s shuttle picked us up.  But on the way, I had to stop at a fresh mango stand where I picked up a few which we had for breakfast the next couple of days.  Yummmmm!

Another unbelievable day in Paradise!