Bohol Trip Part 4

This blog is the fifth part of a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure.  I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip.  Happy reading!


If you have missed the other blogs just click the title of the previous stories:
Bohol Trip Part 1
Bohol Trip Part 2
Bohol Trip Part 3.1
Bohol Trip Part 3.2

The last day of our trip to Bohol was spent on the beach.  Good thing the sun finally came out that day and the beach trip was enjoyed under the sun and surf.  We went to Dumaluan Beach Resort located at the Panglao Island, a semi public resort as you can opt for their cottages or hotel like accommodations for longer beach enjoyment.  But we just rented a cottage for the day which was priced at P350 and had our fresh fish grilled by their staff for a charge of P75 per kilo.  Later we saw that there was a public grilling area outside the parking lot.  We could have saved that P75 charge but that was alright I guess. 

Since Louie was not yet a year old, I decided not to let him in the salt water.  Hammie loved swimming in the beach.  He wanted to stand on his own to face the waves but since the tide was getting high, his papa just held him so they can play with the waves without him choking on sea water.  He played by the shore wanting to build his own sand castle.  His papa and I helped him with his castle. 

We decided to eat lunch already but Hammie wanted to stay and continue building his castle which was patting up a pile of sand but he was so serious doing it that we just left him by the shore and went to our rented cottage a few feet away and looked at where he was once in a while.  Then I saw a kid a year or so older than Hammie went over to where Hammie was and just kicked the sand castle we help him built and poor Hammie he just stared at the kid and went on with patting his castle or what was left of it. 

I immediately went over and asked Hammie if he was fine and he said he was okay but a kid kicked the sand castle.  Poor Hammie he was the one not to fight back.  I figured the kicking kid wanted to have attention as he showed he lacks some.  I helped Hammie build another bunch of castle towers with the assistance of a plastic tumbler and asked his papa to come over and build castles too and told him what happened.  The kid came back and watched us and suddenly Hammie told the kid with a finger waving at him ‘No!’  I guess he needed some support before he can muster up some courage to fight back. 

The kid did not do any more damage to Hammie’s sand castles but was annoying the other kids with us who were making a mermaid tale for Angel who was covered with sand waist down.  He wanted to join in the fun by throwing sand on the tail part.  But Undoy and Dong-dong did not want to and told the kid off.  Poor kid, he just wanted to play and nobody wanted to play with him.  One of the realizations I have as a parent, kids need and love attention.  I hope parents understand that and give their children their much needed attention, affection and appreciation.  It gives children the confidence in themselves and do not need to bully others to get the attention they need.

After some time of convincing Hammie finally went to the cottage to eat some biko Tita Excel made.  It was delicious and Hammie ate a lot.  I decided to changed already so I can breastfeed Louie to find out there was a fee of P15 to use their shower rooms.  The rest of the kids and Ryan went back to the beach and enjoyed the cool waters for a little while more.  Finally, they also changed clothes without going to the showers anymore.  We left the beach a little after noon and went to ICM to buy some pasalubong.  And of course bought some ice cream at the Buzz Café and Louie loved the cold dessert.  We arrived at the Aliguay house past 2pm. 

I already started packing up the previous night so it only took a while to finish the bags to be packed up and prepared everyone to be ready for the boat trip at 7pm later that night.  We had an early dinner by 5pm and left the house by 6pm.  We arrived at the port terminal about 630pm and to our surprise, there were a lot of people riding the boat for Cagayan de Oro.  I guess they were finish joining fiestas and reunions of their own.  The boat left by 830pm already but we arrived early still at 5am.  So I guess we are now back to the real world.  Till next time Bohol, we will surely be back! ;)