@ Hangang Korean Restaurant in Mactan

Food was superb!!! You just had to pay for the main dish and everything else was free!!! Well, except the soju and rice...

An amazing Korean experience with everyone around happily chattering in Korean language. Hehe! Felt like I was in a koreanovela.

I learned new things that night, too. For example:
1. Korean birthdates are different from ours. They count the 9 months when the baby is still in the womb... so it's like they're all 2 years older in Korean age. They get to have a grand birthday/anniversary to celebrate the baby's 1st birthday.
2. When you eat, put rice on the left side and soup on the right. Otherwise, you're probably wishing for death.
3. There are hundreds of different kimchis. It takes 12 ingredients to make it... and it's easier to make if you're making a lot (rather than just a small serving).
4. 죽을래 (chugeole?) is that thing you hear a lot on TV when Koreans mean..."Do you wanna die?" I always find that pretty amusing!
5. Using metal chopsticks gets really tricky when your hands are wet! LOL!

감사합니다, Mr. Cheol!

FACT: Ostrich eggs are so strong that an adult human can stand on one and it will not break.

As it was about to rain this afternoon, we managed to pull over at Big Foot and looked at the ostriches... and took pictures of course... AND we were even lucky to hold an egg. Tee hee!

Random pix of everybody below.

Sulpa Island is probably best known not because of its ever-changing currents and some sea urchins, but because of the publicity it got when it was shown on BALITANG BISDAK about Japanese people shooting a porn movie there. LOL! For real.

We didn't stay too long though because in spite of the great weather God has given us today, we can't really fight the forces of nature. That being the rainy season as well as the crazy weather we're getting due to the typhoon, Butchoy.

We were glad we got back to Mactan before 3 p.m. because by then it had started raining... and it was coming down really bad!!!

This was our last stop for the day.

Our next stop was Caohagan Island, just about 5-10 minutes away from Gilutungan. We were going to go to Nalusuan but they raised their entrance fees so high that we decided otherwise.

Caohagan had a pretty neat small sand bar. We got to frolic in the water for some time before we had our lunch specialty of grilled food. The Barks always have that.

Much to our surprise, the island was having a fiesta and thus, a short fluvial parade. Cool!

Ahhhh... don't you just loooooooove summer!?

Our long-awaited summer getaway. Starring: Barks&Co of Ormoc City.

First stop is Gilutongan Island.

Drats! We weren't able to buy an underwater camera. The fish sanctuary is amazing. When you feed the fish with bread, they'd come to your side and even bite the bread off your hand... and they bite you, too! Couldn't take pix of those rainbow(?), purplish blue-colored fish :( A really good place to go snorkelling.

I've gotta love ya, I need to love ya, I want to love ya ...

A get-together for a pre-summer R&R...