Boracay

Let me start by saying that I have not yet been to bed from yesterday, and I am on the cusp of a truly crippling hangover. I figured I should blog while I'm still drunk to avoid passing out in the internet cafe later on. It is 4pm. Spelling and grammar errors are inevitable here.

Boracay is mad. Its crazy. Its like if Koh Pangan in Thailand and Cancun had a baby together and that baby was a raging alcoholic. The days are a bit blurred, but I can say for certain what happened on Canada Day. Aileen and I woke up early and went out for a dive. Its was an awesome dive, like swimming in an aquarium. Highlights include seeing lobster, more sea snakes, a bright yellow polkadot puffer fish, a school of those giant dinner plate sized angel fish, and an eel. We met a really cool family from Calgary now living in Qatar (not a poor family I would wager) who took all kinds of photos of us with their fancy underwater camera so I have lots of pictures! Sadly my video camera has not been working on the dives, the buttons don't push when I'm below 6m or so. I think it has something to do with the pressure :( We came back to the island in time for the rest of the travellers to come out of their caves into the bright gorgeous day. We had booked a sailboat for the afternoon so we rounded up some Tanduay (P80, which is misleading because Boracay is really really expensive) and off we went. One of the girls was an absolute genius and brought nachos and salsa with us so we had a downright Canadian lunch on one of the little islands that the boat took us to. Half a bottle of Tanduay later we were back in Boracay for a shower. The dive family had invited Aileen and I to their resort for a Canada Day party put on by the Canadian owners. So we grabbed a tricycle and headed to Seven Sands Resort, which looked to be about a 6 star place full of rich ex-pats. They had a BARBEQUE! I had potatoe salad and some absolutely delicious veggie skewers and got absolutely bombed with this family. They invited us up to their place where they had Clamato juice that they had brought with them from Qatar...sadly I do not like cesars. My group was horrified to learn that they had misseed the opportunity. We ended then night with a Canadian flag cake and some shisha and left them to go back to our beach to find our crew. No chance. The place was crazy and we were hammered so Aileen and I just sat down at a bar and demolished a plate of fries and went home.
The next day, needless to say, did not start off with a dive. Its too hot to sleep here during the day so I woke up around 8am and stumbled down to the beach to pass out. Around 11 Aileen woke me up to say goodbye. She was only here for 20 days and now she's on her way back to Canada. Sad news indeed, but she's from Calgary so we shall meet again. There wasn't a breath of wind on the beach so I had to spend the day bobbing in the ocean. Rough life. We pulled ourselves together when the sun went down to grab some dinner. I had some incredible chicken curry and started in on the Tanduay. Last night ended up being so random. Highlights include drinking on the beach with a group of transvestites, taking a cab back to my room just so I could take a crap, hitting a club on the other side of the island where a Canadian bartender named Shawn must've given me at least 10 tequila shots, dancing at another club with that club's owner and his posse of Korean girls who spoke no english and kept touching my hair, ending up drinking at the Canadian dudes appartment above the bar he worked at til about noon, and finding our way home where we tried to pass out but couldn't due to the blistering heat. So swimming and trying to sober up all afternoon. Today is our last day here so I need to get my act together and go shopping, which I somehow have managed to miss for the last 5 days.
Oh! And the day before Canada Day we hit up the Hobbit House where I paid a whopping $8 for a cold, delicious, unbelievably satisfying strongbow. Yummmmmmm.
Epic travel day coming up tomorrow. 24 straight hours of busses, jeepneys, and a night ferry. Should be pretty brutal, then we find ourselves in Panglau for a few days...only 2 weeks left! EEP!