bohol here we come!

i've never been to bohol. it's such a shame because my dad is from antequera, bohol. we (our family) should've been to bohol sooner so we could've enjoyed the sights and everything that it has to offer.

anyway, my travel partner rose and friend joy planned about going to bohol months back. i wasn't really planning on going but when i accompanied rose to the cebu pacific ticketing office to change something in their reservations, rose asked me to keep the three tickets. three? yup three because rose took the liberty of getting me a ticket as well. :)) talk about being shanghaied! :)

after getting over the pleasant surprise, we all made plans for the trip. travel light, travel light (something which i'm still working at)...as usual, with early trips, i sleep over at rose's and we go to the bus station or airport together which prevents one of us not waking up on time. for this trip, we'd meet joy at the domestic airport. our flight was at 5:00 a.m. and we were at the airport at around 4 a.m. we checked-in our bags, got our boarding passes and waited and waited and waited for joy who came at around 4:30 a.m. we were wondering why it was taking her so long to get her boarding pass and it turns out that she didn't realize that the 1 quart rule about liquid/gel in handcarry baggage doesn't apply here in the philippines. here, it's zero tolerance for liquid/gel in your handcarry.

we didn't know that was keeping her from checking-in. from where rose and i were waiting, all we knew was the cebu pacific ground stewardess was making the last call for passengers bound for cebu (we took the cebu flight then ferry to bohol); it was our flight! it turns out that the counter personnel wouldn't allow joy to board the plane anymore (she just made arrangements to take a pal flight to cebu). so after telling us about the situation and deciding to take another flight, we agreed to just meet in cebu, of course.

so, rose and i had to rush through the terminal fee booth and last inspection area (where you take off your shoes, belt and stuff) then we had to run, and i mean run across the waiting lounge to the gate to the plane! although we weren't really the last passengers to board, you could feel everyone's eyes on you thinking, "the flight is delayed because of you!" oh well...

we settled in our seats for the hour-long ride...