Christmas in Boracay

I know it is not the most imaginative title but its 10:30pm. Awake at 6:30 as per the Buxton life, and opening the curtains to another beautiful morning, a Christmas morning! Sean watches a bit of cartoons as we all wake up. It's great he's three and the second day we were here he said something along the lines of "make it go to the next one mom I don't like the way it stops all the time!" He was of course referring to commercials, something he hadn't really seen up until watching kids shows here in Boracay!

The wind has toned down abit to about 14-15knots. It was beautiful sun and Sean and I explored the pool a bit before we headed down to White Beach for our main task of the day to get a family photo in front of the Boracay sand sculpture. Tried a couple things then pulled out the off camera flash, with wireless transmitter to fill in the shadows on our faces and I am okay with the results now. It was warm today and the "hike" down the beach drains us all. So we stop off at a "butterfly farm" at the Golf course and take a looksee. Sad, with a poor bat having his wings stretched out for the benefit of Korean tourists and the most unhealthy looking owl you've ever seen being handed about for photos. We were out of there pretty quick and Tony took us for lunch at the Golf Club House. Beautiful location overlooking the beach on the east (wind) side of the island. Had burgers and salads and then back to the Alta Vista. Finally we worked in some pool time and got Sean in the water with his boats. He had a blast and it was refreshing in the heat of the day. K & S did a nap and I went out to Puka Shell beach to scout out our Christmas Dinner.

Sean and I had followed a trail of bubbles to a family from Laos eating breakfast this morning. Sean got some bubbles and we mentioned Christmas dinner on the beach. They were interested so they decided to join us. They have a son about 5 that Sean was very keen on playing with. He is a geologist working in Laos and his family have joined them and are enjoying the expat lifestyle.

We headed down to the beach with food from Alta Vista and had dinner with Tony, Ruth, and Paul from Laos and his family. It was a beautiful night and the kids had a great time playing in the surf as the sun set and it got dark, all in about 30min like it does here in the tropics. K and S are in bed and I am writing this tomorrow we may do some island hopping for snorkelling and beach time.