Family Bonding at Paradise Island Beach Resort - November 4, 2007

Oh well.. I forgot to blog about this one.. never mind if the dates are not in proper order. The posts have been delayed anyway.. I decided to treat my family to a beach outing since I gave a promise to my nephew way back May of this year that I would bring him to the beach when he finishes answering the books which his new school gave him to be filled up so his lessons can more or less be synchronized with theirs coz he is a transferee. FYI I was his tutor for the summer before i got employed as a content writer and started living as a vampire(asleep during the day and awake at night). It took several months before I was able to fulfill my promise but it was good enough that I was able to fulfill it.. better late than never.

We arrived at Paradise Island Beach Resort at around 6 in the morning. We always prefer to go there early since the sun is still not that damaging to the skin and of course we would not want to miss the high tide. This is the usual problem when you go to paradise island beach... at around 9am the sea water would slowly drift away because at this time the tide becomes low. There are only few times in a year when it would be high tide the whole morning.

Anyways, the fare for the pump boat ride is now at P12/head for both adult and kids.. and i was shocked to find out the day tour entrance was already pegged at P90/head while the overnight stay is at P200/head... whoaaa!!! I could still remember when I spent the night with some friends there and the price was still P100/head. Good thing my father has a senior citizen card. It is indeed a big help to get discounts. Plus we sneaked in a 1.5L bottle of coke.. shhhhh... we hid it in a towel! hahahaha! I was carrying a coleman cooler and the guard asked me to open it up but it was only filled with ice.. ice for the coke of course! hahahaha! =p If we poured the coke inside the cooler, they would have made us pay for a corkage fee. That's how strict they are.

We decided to take a dip at the water first then ate our breakfast at around 7:30 in the morning. Then of course went back to the water again. My brother and I saw some teenagers catching some fishes. There were fishes everywhere and we know how much my nephew loves fishes. We attempted to catch our own fish too but it was harder than we thought. I even begged the lifeguard to lend us the net they use to get some dirt off the sea but he told me it was prohibited. We forgot the sun was already scorching hot since we were concentrated at catching a fish.. just a single fish! After several minutes of trying and failing, the lifeguard called me and handed me a fish. Gosh! finally his conscience got him.. hahaha! He told me.. "Sensya na mam.. simpleng isda lang yan.. di masyado gumagalaw".. i told him it was OK.. and really thanked him.. i gave the fish to my nephew who was so excited and even bragged about his fish to some relatives who also went on a family outing and arrived at the place just before lunch time.

My nephew had lots of fun playing at the sand.. not minding the heat of the sun.. we were even shocked when he ran back to our table and grabbed a plastic cup then came back with the cup containing what you would call an "omang or umang". It looks like a very tiny crab that is inside a small shell.. it was surprising coz that thing runs fast and hides beneath the soil fast. He made it his pet for several days but it died a week after.

After eating lunch we decided to call it a day and head home since the tide was already very low and the heat of the sun was scorching hot.. but look at my back.. i am now a member of the X-Men.. hahaha! sunburned again.. the culprit? that fish that died immediately that night.

But it's ok.. what's important was I made my nephew happy.. it's very evident on this pict with his papa.