Such a Perfect Day!

If there was one day that I would want to groundhog day over and over it would be a day similar to our second day in Busuanga. Ok, maybe a slightly later wake-up time than 5:15. But even that wasn’t so bad when theses faces are what wakes you up.

Breakfast was served upstairs with a beautiful view of the pool and the bay. Adam enjoyed his coffee (aka- milk) while pondering important life questions like “Why does the pool go into the ocean?” Ah, infinity pools, confusing children everywhere.

Malcolm meanwhil prepared for a day of sun and relaxation.

And relax we did. We took a short boat trip to some amazing islands. A year ago I wouldn’t have believed you that you can relax on a beach with little kids, but it can be done! They love the sand and can entertain themselves for a very looooong time filling a plastic bottle with sand. The water was amazing. It was warm and we could all hang out for a long time right by the shore.

Oh and there were hammocks.

Some of us took a bit of convincing to get in the hammock and preferred to hang out precariously on the bench…

But eventually everyone came around.

Our next stop on our boat trip was…another island with an even prettier beach where they had refreshing Buco juice.

We headed back midday for some yummy lunch, some golf cart rides, a nap and some fishing!

When we asked Adam the highlight of his day, every day we got the same reply- fishing. The hotel had free fishing on the pier every day at 4 and we were there every day at 4.

The hotel had an amazing staff that took such sweet care of Adam and Malcolm. But the winner was Jake. He was the one that helped us fish and was with us on our last day of island hopping. This 26 year old single guy was one of the sweetest people with children I have ever met. He sat with Adam and helped him catch fish for hours, he chatted with Adam on the front of the boat chatting the whole trip and on the island he took both boys swimming, kayaking and kept finding fun things from the ocean floor to show the boys. He even saved us from a box jellyfish!

A week after we got home Adam turned to me and says our of nowhere – “I miss Jake”. It was so sweet that he remembered this sweet person.

All three of my boys love to fish. I think Randy may actually love it the most and that’s saying a lot because Adam and Malcolm love it A WHOLE lot!