El Nido Part I

Greetings! We just arrived in El Nido, Palawan, a beautiful island paradise in the southeast of the Phil. We've got a really cute little cottage on the beach and we're going on the first of two days of island hopping tomorrow. Wanna know what we've been doing for the last week?

We were in Baguio for a whole week, staying with the Tan family, as we mentioned before. It was a nice, easygoing start to our Filipino vacation. We'd go do a couple of touristy things during the day (saw lots of mountains, went to the market, checked out the view of the silver mines, etc) then eat, drink, and Wii into the night. Very relaxing and unadventurous. It was great.

After that, we stayed a couple nights at Willierose's Aunt Melanie's house in Kamias (Manila area). We were introduced to one of the biggest malls in the whole world, the Mall of Asia. It houses the only Olympic-sized ice skating rink in SE Asia and the only IMAX theater in the Philippines, as well as a gazillion stores. Willierose was very excited to be there, Guido was... not as excited, but very supportive. He admits he had fun though! Anyway, last night (the 9th) Guido met the Natividad side of the clan (about 25 of them!!!). Aunt Melanie and her cohort cooked up a huge feast. We ate, we drank, we slept. And G played a lot of pool with the uncles. Of course, everyone loved G, and complemented on how tall he is and how much he could eat. Bravo! (and everyone keeps asking what part of America he's from... hahahaha)

Today, we boarded a 19-seater Dornier to get to our present destination. We'll post pics and videos of everything soon. Love love love - G and W