Operation: Guam: rooftop

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving with friends and family! Carlton and I spent the week in the Philippines and really enjoyed ourselves. Yes, there is a lot of poverty in the area and there is a lot of pollution as well. But we spent the first four days on Cebu Island in Cebu City which was definitely nicer than Manila. The pollution was not nearly as bad and Mactan Island (which is connected to Cebu Island) has a lot of resorts due to their beautiful beaches and great scuba diving.

We arrived at our hotel in Cebu City early in the afternoon, so we just wandered a bit and lounged by the infinity pool that was on the rooftop deck.

Selfie on our plane from Manila to Cebu.

Airport in Cebu.

View from our hotel room. Of course McDonald's.

View from rooftop deck.

Infinity pool

Lounging selfie

Sunset from the rooftop deck

Happy Hour!

Our first full day we scheduled a scuba diving trip which included two dives off the coast of two different islands near Mactan Island. So we had to take a taxi to the Shangri-La resort on Mactan to get to the dive shop. It was not that far but with traffic it took about an hour. The driving is a bit crazy there...cars have a tendency to straddle lane lines and vehicles are constantly passing each other while motorbikes/scooters are weaving in between vehicles. Everyone honks regularly; honk to pass, honk to make pedestrians move, honk to let a vehicle know you are moving into his lane, honk to make the motorbike move over so a vehicle can use the same lane, honk at pedestrians crossing in front of traffic when the light is green, etc.