Booking our tickets to Philippines

We booked our tickets today for our vacation in the Philippines. We will travel on weekend back in USA so it costs us more than what I posted before. We paid $1,210 for adults, $965 for child and $370 for infant. It makes me feel like not going for a vacation anymore since all the tickets were so expensive but my husband told me it's okay. He said that I deserve it. I am so lucky to have such a great man to be my husband and very supportive. Now we are just 2 months away for our vacation and it will be so much fun.

We'll keep posting here all our happenings.

Family in the Philippines

When we miss our family back in the Philippines, we always makes an effort to give them a call, just to hear their voices makes us happy. I always give them a call before and spend like seventy dollars a month for a phone card. But the longer I stay here in US the lesser the phone card I buy because it seems like I am getting use to be far from them and especially that I have now two kids to makes my life busy everyday. That does not mean that I don’t care about them anymore, but because of life is just very different now than before when we didn’t have kids yet. It has been 3 weeks I didn’t give them a call, so my Mom and Dad were worried what’s going on. I used to call them at least once every week but because of savings, I try not to spend too much for phone card and save our money instead. My dad texted me last night asking how are we doing and if I can give them a call, so I call them up last night. I talked to my mom, dad and sisters and explained to them why I can’t call them all the time. My mom cried because she is just missing us so much and I know it is so hard for them not seeing us for almost five years now. It will be two more months to go and we will be there. Everybody is excited for our vacation there especially now that we have kids with us..

Bohol honeymoon part II.

After visiting old churches, we went to experienced walking on the hanging bridge. Across the upper part of the Loboc River in Bohol is a hanging bamboo bridge that is a major tourist attraction. This bridge hangs approximately 20 meters above the Loboc River and sways back and forth as you walk across.This bridge over the Loboc river connects the village on the other side to the world and it's quite fun doing the walk. It was scary but my husband comforted me and makes me feel felt better. Bohol is one of the many places in the Philippines that have many beautiful spots to visit and for sure, you would enjoy every spots that you are planning to see.

We also went to see the Tarsier. Tarsiers are considered the smallest monkey in the world. Tarsiers are known as natural habitants in the town of Loboc located inland Bohol. We took pictures and had souvenirs where they can print the photos on a shirt.

Now we cannot wait to go back there again and have a good time. After all this hiking, we felt hungry and we experienced eating at their floating restaurant still located in Loboc where the tarsiers are. It was awesome. People out there try to visit there and you would love the place. After eating lunch, we went straight to one of the most beautiful tourist attraction in Bohol, The Chocolate hills. The Chocolate Hills is an unusual geological formation in Bohol, Philippines. It is composed of around 1,268 perfectly cone-shaped hills of about the same size, spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers (20 sq mi). They are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, hence the name.The Chocolate Hills is a famous tourist attraction of Bohol. It is featured in the provincial flag and seal to symbolize the abundance of natural attraction in the province. It is in the Philippine Tourism Authority's list of tourist destinations in the Philippines; it has been declared the country's third National Geological Monument and proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO world’s heritage list.

What a beautiful creations by God. Therefore, people if you are planning to visit Philippines try to check this out; you will be amaze with all this scenery...

Need info. for hotel reservation?

Our family are planing to go back to the Philippines this May and it is very exciting because it's been 5 years that we didn't see our family back home. But I am sad because my passport needs to renew first since my passport expired 6 months ago. The Philippine consulate policy now was being changed started last June of 2008. Before, we can just mail it to them but now we need to apply it in person. It is too much hassle for us specially we really don't have much time to do all this stuff and the worst thing is I am from Texas and I need to travel all the way to Los Angeles California to renew it and now we need to buy a ticket and find a hotel close to the embassy where we going.

Me and my husband can't really have a chance to search for a cheapest ticket and comparing prices for a hotel reservation since we are both working full time and when we get home we also have kids to taking care of. It is very hard to search from one site to another trying to compare prices until one day I discover this amazing website where there are multiple lists for hotel reservations and they also have free service price comparison. This site saves us a lot of time searching hotels where we want to stay. I am so glad that there is a website like this, it is one of a kind and it is very convenient to search, because you will just simply type in the state or country you want to visit, check in and out date then in few second the result will come out. This website is very good for us specially we only have very limited time to search online. If you are planing also for a vacation and searching for hotels and make advance reservation just visit their site at http://www.hotelscombined.com/.

Our family back in the Philippines now are very excited to see us again. I know it needs enough money to visit them but at least having cheapest hotel to stay will help us and make our vacation a successful one. I know we will be having lots of fun and visit different beautiful spots in the Philippines, that means we will be going from City to another. Three more months and we'll be there.