Cebu Adventure with Hubby

I had wanted to post this since forever but did not have the time or just did not remember to have the time. I wanted to just share about this very organized albeit sablay itinerary of mine. Well what the heck!

I consider myself an expert travel planner. Having planned countless office and family local and international trips, I even thought of putting up my own travel agency just to remind me of how good I am in travel planning.

But there are of course trips that will always run into some setbacks and even unforeseen delays and even stops that may altogether throw your plans out the window. This Cebu trip with my dear hubby was probably one of those. But if you ask my husband, this was probably on his toplist of our most unforgettable trips ever.

I usually plan out by hour but since there are items in the IT that's not very familiar to me (sardine run etc), I thought to leave out the time and just run with whatever the day brings.

So here how it all went.

Day 1:

We had to leave the kids to our dear Lola Aida and have our part-time driver Ali take us to the airport. We were there about an hour early before boarding so we had early heavy merienda/prelude dinner at Cinnabon. Our flight was on-time and we landed in Mactan at 8pm. We were able to checkin at our hotel in Cebu City by 9pm and had late but suprisingly good dinner at 930pm. The sinigang of Ned Nanay's was to die for, probably the best and most creative that I've tasted. The meal was also a great deal for only P350 for us two, drinks included.

By 1030pm we retired to our beds after preparing our things for the next part of our trip.

Day 2:

We woke up early at 7am to have our breakfast which was a simple but ample buffet. By 8am we were waiting for our rent-a-motor to arrive. This one was booked by a dear friend from Cebu who was able to get a good deal for us. However, our whole planned was stalled since the motorcycle arrived 1 hr and 30 mins late. This was the thing I feared most because I know it will create a ripple effect on what we'll be able to do with the rest of the trip. And just because of that we lost 3 destinations in our IT. :(

We went on to take the rental and go through whatever's left in our IT. We decided to still push thru with the farthest IT - The Sirao Garden. We decided to just make the most out of the Garden since we can only accommodate 1 other item in our morning IT before we head to Moal boal. After that we went eat lechon in CnT. According to my husband, it was the best lechon he has ever tasted.

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