Island Life is the life for me

This past weekend we had a four day weekend and we decided it was a good time to start exploring the Philippines. We headed off to the island of Leyte on Thursday. We can see the planes taking off from our kitchen window and Randy has taught Adam to wave to every plane that passes. It was fun to head to the airport knowing Adam gets so excited when he sees planes.

After a quick check in in and a short three hour plane delay where lots of laps were made around, friends were made and planes were watched from the windows, we were on our way. The flight was only an hour so we passed the time eating pretzels and drawing.

We knew we were close when we saw this out of the window.

Next up a three hour car trip. We knew this was coming but with the plane delay it was later than expected. Maybe this ended up working to our advantage because some of us used this time to take a cat nap.

We got in too late to do much besides have dinner and head to bed. The next morning we woke up and had a delicious breakfast.

After breakfast Adam helped me unpack. His newest obsession is putting things in things. This resulted in him taking everything out of the suitcase and then putting everything into either his crib, the garbage can or the toilet. That bag of dried mangos made it to the toilet. The rest luckily mostly ended up in the crib and the garbage can.

(this picture was taken before the mangos were in the toilet)

Randy headed off to swim with whale sharks and Adam and I had the day to ourselves. We spent the day alternating between the beach and the pool.

Beach

Pool

We dug our bathing suits out of the garbage can and headed down to the beach first since it was early morning and not too hot. The beach was a pebble which for me is much preferred to sand. I’ve always preferred pebble beaches, maybe because I used to go to so many in Greece when I was younger. This preference has been made even greater with a toddler who manages to get food bits inside his diaper even when wearing a onesie so I fear to think where all that sand would have ended up (seriously how does that happen?). Adam loved it. He filled up his bucket in the shade while I looked for seashells in the sun. Not a bad way to spend the morning.

After a dip in the pool we had a yummy lunch of spaghetti and fruit. Look at my lunch date! Sitting in a chair and everything 🙂

After a long nap where I was able to read my book (Shanghai Girls- I’m addicted) it was back to the beach for some more seashell hunting.

We cleaned up and met Randy to hear about his day and tell him all about ours.

Then it was bed for Adam. As if this hotel wasn’t awesome enough, our room was right by the main deck where we ate dinner so we were able to have dinner, just the two of us and be in earshot of Adam (and have the video monitor for added peace of mind). This hotel- Padros Burgos Castle is owned by a husband and wife team. The husband, who is Scottish runs the boat trips and the wife, who is Philippino, cooks all the meals. Both are amazing at what they do. Everything we ate was delicious! Friday night we had a huge tray of delicious crab with vegetables.