Yep. That's a dead King Cobra. This is one of the last days. By the end of the trip, I was poking at dead snakes!!
This is the last island we stopped at Island Hopping. This sand bar went out forever!!! I got stung by a jellyfish here. None of the boys were brave enough to pee on it, so I just manned up and dealt.
We found this starfish on the sand bar; he matched us.
On the last day, we went back to Cebu and went island hopping. We snorkeled and went to a couple of different islands. This is me sailing on the boat-they all have those things on the side to balance. PS: on the way back, a pod of 5 or 6 dolphins came soaring out of the water right next to our boat. Very Seldom!!!
And in case you've ever wondered how you go the bathroom on a boat that's not exactly a yacht, this is it! A little box in the back of the boat. Everybody was eating lunch when it hit me. Don't worry, you just pee in the little hole while everybody sees you squatting and knows exactly what you're doing. I think I'm actually peeing in the picture, in fact. Never had more pride in my life, let me tell ya.
My best friend Jesse, Me, little Randy and our friend Jasmin. She lives in Behind the Clouds. She has two kids; Randy and a darling little girl, Kelsey-Jane. ( Note: They think any english word is the most beautiful name. At church, we actually met a girl named Jingle Bell. Yep.) Jasmin's husband left her, and she lives there and teaches the children at school. She calls us Auntie Katie and Auntie Jesse. We exchanged addresses, and she hugged and kissed us and cried when we left.
We ate hardly anything for the first three days. So when we finally went to eat somewhere where the food wasn't staring at us or still crawling, we were SO HAPPY! This place, ironically enough, is called JOE'S.
The owner of our hotel also owns this AMAZING resort and invited us to enjoy some "leisure time" there. Private beach. Private island to go with it. Private boats. Swim up bar. Full Spa. Possibly the best Sunday afternoon I've EVER spent.
Need I say more?
The Loboc River. So beautiful! We stopped the boat at these amazing waterfalls coming off a little island in the middle of the river. Everybody got out and swam in the river and jumped off of them. No big deal.
This just might be the funniest memory of my entire existence. This is a man. He is perhaps the most eccentric cross dresser I have ever seen. He just hangs out by the snake cage and "performs" for tourists. He lip synced (very poorly) to an Aretha Franklin song for us. When I asked IT what it's name was, It said "Jeniffer Hudson." Last year he said Jessica Alba.
PRONY the python. "The biggest and longest in captivity!" They fed him a goat two weeks ago, so he was too full to eat for us. Shame.
A woman watching us curiously as we drove past in the Jeepney. (The Cebuano word for our bus).
The beautiful kids at the school at Behind The Clouds. And, in case you were wondering, this picture was right before I met a man with leprosy. I put my hands all over his infected paper before I realized what he was trying to tell me in visayan (a dialect of Cebuano). When he showed me his disfigured hand, I got the point. Thank goodness for SANITIZER.
Yep. That's a dead King Cobra. This is one of the last days. By the end of the trip, I was poking at dead snakes!!
This is the last island we stopped at Island Hopping. This sand bar went out forever!!! I got stung by a jellyfish here. None of the boys were brave enough to pee on it, so I just manned up and dealt.
We found this starfish on the sand bar; he matched us.
On the last day, we went back to Cebu and went island hopping. We snorkeled and went to a couple of different islands. This is me sailing on the boat-they all have those things on the side to balance. PS: on the way back, a pod of 5 or 6 dolphins came soaring out of the water right next to our boat. Very Seldom!!!
And in case you've ever wondered how you go the bathroom on a boat that's not exactly a yacht, this is it! A little box in the back of the boat. Everybody was eating lunch when it hit me. Don't worry, you just pee in the little hole while everybody sees you squatting and knows exactly what you're doing. I think I'm actually peeing in the picture, in fact. Never had more pride in my life, let me tell ya.
My best friend Jesse, Me, little Randy and our friend Jasmin. She lives in Behind the Clouds. She has two kids; Randy and a darling little girl, Kelsey-Jane. ( Note: They think any english word is the most beautiful name. At church, we actually met a girl named Jingle Bell. Yep.) Jasmin's husband left her, and she lives there and teaches the children at school. She calls us Auntie Katie and Auntie Jesse. We exchanged addresses, and she hugged and kissed us and cried when we left.
We ate hardly anything for the first three days. So when we finally went to eat somewhere where the food wasn't staring at us or still crawling, we were SO HAPPY! This place, ironically enough, is called JOE'S.
The owner of our hotel also owns this AMAZING resort and invited us to enjoy some "leisure time" there. Private beach. Private island to go with it. Private boats. Swim up bar. Full Spa. Possibly the best Sunday afternoon I've EVER spent.
Need I say more?
The Loboc River. So beautiful! We stopped the boat at these amazing waterfalls coming off a little island in the middle of the river. Everybody got out and swam in the river and jumped off of them. No big deal.
This just might be the funniest memory of my entire existence. This is a man. He is perhaps the most eccentric cross dresser I have ever seen. He just hangs out by the snake cage and "performs" for tourists. He lip synced (very poorly) to an Aretha Franklin song for us. When I asked IT what it's name was, It said "Jeniffer Hudson." Last year he said Jessica Alba.
PRONY the python. "The biggest and longest in captivity!" They fed him a goat two weeks ago, so he was too full to eat for us. Shame.
A woman watching us curiously as we drove past in the Jeepney. (The Cebuano word for our bus).
The beautiful kids at the school at Behind The Clouds. And, in case you were wondering, this picture was right before I met a man with leprosy. I put my hands all over his infected paper before I realized what he was trying to tell me in visayan (a dialect of Cebuano). When he showed me his disfigured hand, I got the point. Thank goodness for SANITIZER.
2 comments:
You are one step closer to "living the life you've imagined". Katie, you're amazing. Truly. I love that you've fulfilled this dream of yours. So many people want to do this kind of thing. But not many actually plan it, sit on the plane all that time, and brave the other side of the world all in the name of service and humanity. I love you, girl. You have a good soul.
wow i hate you
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