Second Honeymoon

We are back in our room in the hotel. Our trip to cebu turned out to be a second honeymoon for us. Back at our wedding, one of our ninongs gave us coupons to stay in Crown Regency here in Cebu City. This is the hotel that has the sky adventure rides in Cebu. We opted to save these coupons for later time. Then a few months back, i was able to purchase promo airfare via PAL. Our trip was even threatened by the strike. But thank God we're here now. I really thank God he allow us to experience this. It was not a sidetrip con ministry, but purely RR, though tomorrow, we are to meet the district youth director in Cebu for Chi Alpha which is another good news because I've been praying that God would open Cebu for Chi Alpha.

Anyway, yesterday we woke up at 3am for our 7am flight. We arrived in our hotel at around 9am to realize that check-in time is still at two. So for the next few hours despite the lack of sleep and controlling our tempers, we stayed at 3 malls: Robinsons, Ayala Center and SM. Check-in at 2pm, and slept the throughout the day. By evening, I was opting to try going to what they call Nivel Hills, where there's a resto over looking the city, but I despite being told earlier that going there was a breeze, we discover that it was an hour away and going there via taxi was 1,000 pesos! It was a disappontment. So we opted to go to Ayala Center for dinner. We dined at La Tegola, an italian resto which had good food. Though it somehow removed my frustration of not being able to go where I wished to go, I was still frustrated because day 1 turned out to be average, something we could have done in Manila. But day two turned out to be quite interesting and memorable.

Day 2, woke up quite early but stayed in our room until lunch time. By the way, our room is awesome, an executive suite with 2 queen sized beds and very, very spacious. And also before our trip we planned to go to Bohol, but we realized, time wouldn't suffice, and better scheduled for another vacation. So we're left with a free itenerary. And also, I realixed now that we're married, iteneraries may not be followed strictly since your there also to enoy it with your mate.

Before this trip I was looking at new sites in Cebu and I found this museum downtown so we decided to visit that today. We went to CNT lechon for lunch for an authentic Cebuano lechon. Took the jeep to begin our downtown walk to the Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House. It was a bit frustrating to go there because of the difficulty navigating unfamiliar streets. But after a few more blocks we finally find it. At first looking from a distance, I thought 'this is it?' because the house looked dilapidated old house. But inside was a gem, full of artifacts and antiquities. The local tour guide also gave a short tour and interestung stories about the house. Some interesting finds are the religious relics and Chinese-looking Catholic relics because the house was situated in the Chinese district at that time called Parian. We learned later that there's another house museum a few blocks away called Casa Gorgonio. The museum was larger that resembles Casa Manila in Intramuros. To bad we're not allowed to take phots inside.

We return to our hotel for our next adventure. By the way today is our monthsary as boyfriend girlfriend. Our next adventure is the dreaded sky adventure. The ride is a bit pricey but the experience was worth it. Like the saying goes to try everything at least once. First we rode the Edge Coaster. You sit on something like a roller coaster, but it tours you around the edge of the cities highest building giving you a 360 view of the city. Not only that, the ride tilts you towards the edge as far as 55 degrees incline! It was quite riveting and exhilarating. The second ride is a floor below called Sky Walk. This time you walk on a walkway outside the building secured by a harness. This is less scary until you walk on the glass walkway and take photos on daring poses like standing one foot over the edge and sitting by ledge. It was a one of a kind experince. By the middle of the walk I experienced painful cramps in my midsections because my muscle was so tense. We capped the night with a dinner buffet overlooking the night lights and mactan. It was a wonderful day altogether.

Will be posting pics later.