2015 Summer Fun @ Midway White Beach Resort

Friends are truly friends, even with the distance. As much as possible, we wanted to bond when time allows us, and that’s what had happened on April 10 & 11, 2015. One of our friends who’s currently working in Cebu City came home for his son’s college graduation, and because of his one week vacation in Iligan City, we managed to set-up a get together after many years of no summer outing. The rest of the gang together with their families and us the whole family (coming from Cagayan de Oro) met halfway at Midway White Beach Resort at Initao, Misamis Oriental.

We arrived at the Resort on Friday around 7:30-8:00 in the evening. Each one of us has commitments at the early time of the day and those commitments should be done before the much awaited vacation, for us to fully enjoy our time minus all the work and worries for the time being. It was a simple gathering, for the whole barkada but sadly, the three of them, which we hoped to join us, had other commitments. 

By the time we arrived the food was already set-up, the roasted pig “lechon baboy” that never miss the list was already waiting for us to devour. At 3k budget, Nyc was able to get about 20kg whole lechon for us, an ideal size with enough leftovers for the lechon paksiw the following day. 

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January 7, Water

I’m the still in the first week of my so called 365 day photo challenge and I am already slacking. I am getting worried that I may not be able to complete this. Wondering what came into my mind when I decided to challenge myself when in fact I am so sure that I am busy with my day job. Ha!

Anyway, I still have hope and determination to complete the challenge even though with the back log.

The very reason why I slacked because I went on a business trip on the 6^th of January to the  8^th. I was in Butuan City with my boss attending a meeting with our partners in the industry. 

This is a man made lake inside Almont Inland Resort in Butuan City, the finest resort in the heart of the city as advertised, where I stayed for 2 nights. I remember I also checked-in, here before and I must say it was the best, but that was years back probably because I occupied a deluxe room. This time we’re booked in one of the superior rooms located at the far end of the resort near the man made lake above. The room was indeed spacious but not relaxing because of the buzzing mosquitoes. Yes, there are mosquitoes, a lot of them, especially in the toilet. I had to call the housekeeping and had it sprayed. They probably forgot to, when they clean the room earlier. With the lake inside, expect mosquitoes to propagate. I hope the management can do something about it.

Care to share a water photo? Just place your link in the comment below and let’s exchange comments. You can check out my list for January 2015 here.

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4 Things I Did in General Santos City

One of the perks of being a corporate employee is getting to go places for free. Though the main purpose is work related, like attending meetings, seminars, or field work, etc. at the end of the day, even an hour or two there will always be free time to explore places. Like last week, together with my boss and some colleagues, we attended a meeting at the General Santos City.

Skipping the work related activities because the issues and concerns discussed there were highly confidential, here are the other things that I did in General Santos City;

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The Swimming Pool

 I wanted to plunge myself in the water but I just can't. Maybe after I give birth. huh!

 

Photo taken at N-Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City.

Wordless Wednesday

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Apple Tree Resort

Our group had a live-in-seminar at Apple Tree Hotel & Resort on November 8-9, 2011. Formerly known as Lauremar Hotel & Resort is located at Opol, Misamis Oriental along the long stretch of Macajalar Bay. Aside from the beach you can also relax and enjoy their swimming pool under the blue bright sky.

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Iligan City: Refreshing Water of Timoga

Last Saturday the gang attended Nice (our friend) nephew's birthday party on one of the famous swimming destination in Iligan City the Timoga Pools.

Timoga, located at Buru-un Iligan City has around 10 swimming resorts (I'll check the exact figure later) all are enjoying the bounty free flowing water coming from the mountain spring. When you are in Iligan, you can choose which ever pool you want all of them will give you chilling and refreshing water.

These are the photos taken at Mimar's Springway Resort.

These are excess water from the spring freely flowing beside the main and kiddie pools, the resort landscaped the area with cascading waterfalls.

And this is the kiddie pool. The kids left and the grown-ups took over.

Enjoy My Watery Wednesday and Outdoor Wednesday for today my friends.

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