Singapore - Day 0

Maybe you are wondering why the our new adventure started at day 0. You will be able to understand it better after you finished reading our today entry.

Thanks for the promos given by airline companies nowadays, we were able to get one from AirPhil Express, a huge discount to travel to other country. This is the first time that we are to travel outside the country, except for my wife who traveled to Singapore during the time she was employed in Accenture. We are now ready for our new adventure. This time we brought together with us my sister-in-law and her son. I'm really excited about this trip. And I tried my best not to show it my wife.

We left home at about 11 AM. We would like to check-in early and be able to fill-up our tummies before our 4 PM flight. We arrived at NAIA 3 before 12 noon. We are early for the check-in so we just waited for the check-in time. Taking this opportunity to take pictures inside the airport.

After checking in our luggage we now went inside the departure area. And like I said we had our early dinner. We ate nachos and siopao, we needed a slightly heavy meal for the three hour flight.

We boarded at around 5PM and was able to take off at 5:30 PM.

This time my wife and her sister were taking turns in keeping my daughter's noise at minimum. It was quite hard to take shots during the flight, good thing I was able to make one while flying towards Singapore.

We arrived at Changi Airport and I was amazed of their airport. No wonder it was voted one of the best airport in Asia. And maybe in the whole world. (More photos inside the airport will be posted on a later blog entry.)

After getting our luggage and exchanging our pocket money to Singapore Dollars, we took a taxi to our hotel, the South East Asia Hotel located in Bugis. The very first thing that I noticed after getting inside the taxi is that it was right hand drive. And I begun to wonder if it is difficult to drive them because I am accustomed to left hand drive (I've been only driving for a year now). Most of the taxi in Singapore are new models, unlike here in the Philippines. We arrived at the hotel and checked in at around 11PM. Good thing we brought instant noodles and hotdogs, we were able to relieved our aching tummies. After arranging our things we are now ready to fall asleep.

Now I think you know why I put a title of Day 0 for this entry post. Or maybe I could I use Day 0.125?

P.S. Sorry for the late post of the Singapore adventures, too much work here in the office. Thank you for waiting.

Davao, Philippines - Day 4

Day 4, our last day in Davao. I woke up early morning to take some photos of the hotel.

After our usual breakfast, my wife left together with Paul for their duty that morning. And after putting our daughter to sleep, I fixed our luggage and prepare to check-out of the hotel by lunch time while watching the semi-finals between Dallas and the now ousted OKC Thunders. We check-out at about 12 noon, and left our luggage at the reception area.

We had our lunch at Dencia's Restaurant, where we planned to have our lunch there the other day (I think you know what had happened, in case you missed it, here is the story Davao, Philippines... Day 3...).

After lunch, we went to Abreeza Ayala Mall to kill some time off. We also went to Robinson's Supermarket, which is inside the Ayala Mall, to buy some pasalubong to our relatives back in Manila. We headed back to the hotel and got ready to leave for our flight back to Manila at 6PM. On our trip going to the Davao International Airport, we passed by a store to buy some pomelo, one of the sweetest pomelo I've ever tasted.

It was a very tiring but fun travel for all of us.

I wonder where we are headed next... I heard it was a "FINE" City...