Bellevue Resort
The Bellevue Resort in Bohol (it’s actually on the island of Panglao) is the nicest place I’ve ever stayed, and I’d definitely go again. We paid $180 per night, but the list price is $365 per night. The place just opened a month or two before we arrived, so the weight room, some restaurants, and […]
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Beautiful Bohol
Our flight to Bohol left an hour late. The island only has one airport and that airport only has one runway. It’s such a small airport that if you’re flying there and there’s already a plane there, you have to circle around until that plane leaves. But everybody was excited to tell us that they’re […]
Mall and Taal
After our stressful time getting from Alaminos to Manila we decided to take it easy for a few days. Our first day back in Manila we decided to go check out the SM Mall of Asia. It’s a huge mall that has a ton of stores, an indoor ice rink, ferris wheel, fireworks on the […]
By-the-hour hotel again!?
We had originally budgeted three days for Lucap and Hundred Islands, but after the first day we decided that we had seen everything we wanted to see there. We were exhausted from the dry ocean heat and I got tired of so many people trying to get our money. We stayed for the night but […]
Hundred Islands National Park
We wished we had stayed longer in San Quintin, but early the next morning we set out for the Hundred Islands National Park. One of the branch members took us on his tryke to catch a bus heading to Dagupan. From there we took another bus to Alaminos and one more tryke to Lucap, […]
Visiting old friends in San Quintin
After visiting Baguio we headed to San Quintin, which was one of the areas I was assigned to when I was on my mission. This part was the highlight of our trip because I got to see all my old friends and got to introduce them to Angela. It was so good seeing them and […]
Then and now of the Baguio Mission office
When I was on my mission, I was assigned in Baguio City for six months. I spent mornings working in the mission office, where I entered stats, ran reports, and helped with computers. The house I lived in was across the street from the mission office and mission home. On our vacation we visited these […]
Baguio!
Because of our hotel fiasco our plans in Baguio got a bit turned around. We didn’t get to see everything we had planned to, but we still saw a lot of fun things. Baguio is where Jon’s mission office used to be so he was pretty familiar with the area. Baguio is located up in […]
Better than sleeping on the street…maybe
After we visited the historical sites in Manila and visited with one of Jon’s mission companions we headed out for Baguio. We left from the Victory Liner depot in Pasay; by the time we arrived it was late afternoon already and was starting to get dark. The bus depot was filled with seats […]
Strolling around historic Manila
We spent a day touring the historic part of Manila. We visited Intramuros, which is the oldest district of the Philippines. Way back when the Spanish ruled the Philippines they built a wall to protect the city. Within those walls they built houses, churches, schools, and everything else they needed to sustain life. The Philippines […]