Day 9

March 14, day 9
After breakfast, we hit the beach again. It is so beautiful and alluring it is impossible to pass up. At noon we checked out of the hotel and set out to the airport. A hotel van took us to the harbor where we transferred to a small boat, which took us across to Panay island. We were ushered into another van and were told the first seat row behind the driver was ours. We set off from Caticlan for Kalibo airport. The side of the van had a Ferrari emblem and the driver drove like he was in a rally. We stopped three times to pick up other groups and let them off at various places. We were the only ones who ended up at the airport. The hotel insisted we had to be at the airport 2 hours ahead of time, which seemed ludicrous for such a small airport, but most people were there so far ahead. The check in actually closed 45 minutes before the flight. We had a short flight back to Manila (30 min). The outbound was a prop, this was a jet. After a quick stop to change we went to dinner at one of the classmates’, Wojtek”s best friend Danny’s house. The rest of the classmates had already been there since the morning watching a boxing match between the most famous Filipino boxer (Paquaio?) and a US one televised from Las Vegas so they were happy to finally sit a the dinner table when we arrived at about 7:30 pm. There was a ton of food there mostly Filipino and Chinese, wonderful seafood, exotic salads and fruits. Lots of laughter, too… It was fun to see all of them again.