We went island hopping!

Our first destination is this little hut in the middle of the sea, with a turtle roof. And our activity was snorkeling! (another first for me)

There were a lot of fishies swimming around us, it’s so pretty (unfortunately we don’t have an underwater camera).

The next location is an actual island. It’s called Snake island, because it is a long like a snake.

Free loader Stitch wanted a lot of pictures taken (including the ones I previously posted).

We snorkeled some more, fed fishies, took pictures (of ourselves) and had a picnic lunch on Snake island, before moving on the next island.

I found my (now) favorite sea creature on the next island (Pandan island): star fishies!

You can make them crawl on your hand! And stack them on top of each other to form a little Christmas tree (since it’s Christmas and all), but my little sister refused to take a picture of it (animal cruelty daw).

We had a quiet Christmas eve dinner at the hotel, where we had our favorite Filipino dishes: sinigang (a Filipino soup or stew characterized by its sour flavor most often associated with tamarind) and kare-kare (a Philippine stew made from peanut sauce with a variety of vegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe), etc.

And that was how we spent our Christmas eve day.

While our Christmas day was actually our flight back to Manila.

And thus ended our trip.