Bora Vacation: Day 3

Woke up at 7:30am. Breakfast at 8:00am. The same pinoy breakfast. Swam from 9:30am until 10:45am. Went around the island. Had buko shake at Jones??? Was it Jones??? I needed new slippers so I went to Havaiana's bought black flipflops - nice! Wanted to go past Friday's Resort but was too tired to do so. Went back to Casa Pilar for lunch. We had grilled fish, gambas and pinakbet.

Moi, Mike and Audie: Waiting for lunch!


We were technically scheduled to go back to Bacolod on January 2 celebrating New Year in Bora. However, as fickle-minded as Your Highness is, he changed his mind and wanted to leave Bora on the 31st of December. Well, I said it was perfect at least we can spend New Year's with our family.

After lunch, we asked around what the earliest boat ride out of the island leaves. People said it's at 5:00am. Since we are leaving the following day, we maximized our time sun-bathing. We had to prove that we can get a tan in a short span of time (with the help of our sun tanning lotion, of course).

We rested from 6pm to 8pm. Then, had dinner at our favorite "pang tawid gutom" restaurant, Andok's! As I've mentioned WE HEART THEIR FRIED CHICKEN!!! After dinner, we went back to our hotel room packed our stuff and slept. Woke up at 4:30am and readied ourselves for another tiring trip back home.

We took the first boat out of Bora at 5:00am but it left fifteen minutes late. Upon arrival in Caticlan's Jetty Port, we asked around if there's a van going to Ilo-ilo directly. Unfortunately all vans are stopping in Kalibo. We opted to take the Ceres Bus that goes directly to Ilo-ilo. The worst was about to happen.

The bus we took passed by Antique and the trip that suppose to be 4 to 5 hours ended close to 7 hours! To make matters worse, the bus we took was non-aircon (Because that was the only available bus departing at 6am, the next bus (aircon) is leaving an hour later).

Look how crowded the bus is:


Is this allowed? Is this safe?


We arrived in Ilo-ilo at around 12:45pm. IMAGINE! Took a cab going to the Pier but we made a quick stop at Jollibee and ordered Jolly Yum! Arrived at the Pier around 1:10pm. Good thing SuperCat had a trip going back to BCD at 1:30pm. We availed their promo of P155 return trip by presenting our USED Outbound ticket.

The boat trip was super rough. We were delayed by 30 minutes. Thank God we arrived in Bacolod in once piece. Amen!