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Hello again! Last blog entry from the Philippines!!! At the Mabuhay Manor Hotel in Manila at the moment - leaving for the airport in about 1 1/2 hours!!! Scary stuff! This hotel is GORGEOUS! For about 15pounds each we are in a massive airconditioned room with TWO double beds! a shower, 2 toilets, fridge & freezer & sink!!! Plus dining table! Well cool! Will upload some photos a bit later - trying to do so now but this computer doesnt have active x so i have to upload the photos veerrryyy slooowwwlllyyy. lol. never mind! where did we leave you....
oh yes! in an internet cafe on wednesday i do believe!!! after using the internet we had professional studio photos done for like 4quid!!! so we have some nice ones of ourselves plus group ones!!! They are really nice plus we had great fun doing them!! We also went to a really nice cafe calle 'why not' (hehehe) where some random old guy started talking to us...turns out he used to be john lennon's bodyguard!!! strange! we also got a manicure done (yes, even dan!) where the guys that worked there were soooo incredibly gay & camp it was funny! They actually strutted around! One of them was even checking out dan.... hehehe.
Thursday was fab - we went snorkelling over on Apo Island! This is the third best dive sight in the world! The boat that took us over was like a motorised raft!! We were all squashed onto it and got soaked on the way! saw loads of great fish & coral - even a puffer-fish!!! AND on the way back we saw dolphins!!! Back at patricks house (we set sail on the beach in front of his house) me (bekki) & max did some more swimming in the sea. went out about 10m then thought 'ow'!! We were being stung by tiny jellyfish in the water!!! felt like we were swimming with stinging nettles!! was horrible!! max panicked and grabbed onto me - refusing to swim back!!! So i had to carry him back to shore!!! Was horrid - had welts all over us!!
On friday we went into town again - internet cafe, cake & shops again! Visited a really cheap dvd market - can buy tv series for like 1pound25!! craziness!!
on saturday we went to a ridiculously rich english guy's party! it was his son's christening! he's called nigel, and is from cornwall! still owns THREE houses there!! alright for some... in the philippines he has a massive house with a pool, has his own night & day guard, personal chauffer, nanny AND maid!!! this party was well fancy - he employed the best bar staff to serve drinks - even made smoothies for us all!!! He decided he liked us cos we were from devon so gave me like 4 shots of baileys straight away!!! nice guy! We spent most of the afternoon in the pool with the thousands of kids - they are so adorable!!
Sunday was more relaxed - went to a small rural resort with a nice swimming pool so chatted in there for a while before going back home. in the evening, terri & sammi took us to a discotheque!!!! Was sooo much fun! We met up with Bob - a friend of Dave's from england who also knows Dan & his family. So he bought all of our drinks for the entire night!!! So i have decided he is a nice guy!!! the disco is really strange - there are mirros all around the dancefloor and everyone dances watching themselves in the mirro!!! so vain! we just laughed & danced and befriended like half the people in the club!!! was fab! but got like 2 hours sleep before gettin up again!!!
monday was goodbye day! really strange leaving them all! we have had such a fab time with them we didnt want to go!! The flight was ok but we got lost in a taxi trying to find the hotel! turns out there are 2 roads with same name in different areas of manila!! and we drove to the wrong one before realising we had to go all the way back from where we came and further in the opposite direction!!! never mind! eventually arrived & ordered room service as we were soooo starving! Can you believe it, you had to pay for drinks & snacks on the plane we caught??!!! So stingy!! So we didnt buy anything on principal!! lol.
anywho, we are beginning to look forward to coming home now - will be sooo nice to see everyone!!! plus i am looking forward to no mosquitos!!! for some reason they dont like dan - they just keep biting me no matter how much bug spray i wear! charming! suppose its a compliment though because i must taste nicer than him!! lol.
see you all soon!
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