Win a Free Boracay Package

Win a Free Boracay Vacation Package by WOW Philippines Travel Agency
WOW Philippines Travel Agency, Inc. is celebrating it's 5th year in business during July of 2010, and we would like you to have a chance to celebrate with us, so we have decided to give-away a FREE Boracay Package complete with 5 Star accommodations at the luxurious Le Soleil de Boracay Hotel on Boracay Island. The lucky winner will win the following Boracay vacation package.
Vacation Package Inclusions:
- 5 Days / 4 Nights Luxury 5 Star Accommodations at the Le Soleil de Boracay Hotel

- Flights to Boracay from Manila to Caticlan Airport on Philippine Airlines

- Island Transfers - Door-to-Door from Manila to the resort and back to Manila Domestic Airport

- Three (3) Meals each day, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

- Boracay Activities - Horseback Riding, Island Hopping, Glass Bottom Boat

- PLUS - 5,000 peso Spending Cash

Read More Information: http://www.boracay-packages.com

And They Are Off

to Singapore for this...

I'm sure they're going to have lots of fun!

A Funny Thing Happened in Florida

As most of you know, my line of work has required me to travel and be assigned overseas for months at a time for project assignments. My travels have brought me to several countries in Asia, to Australia, and to several states in the US.

Though the main purpose of my travels is business or training, I made sure that I get to visit at least some of the tourist attractions of the places I have been to. I would often schedule my sight seeing on weekends. Somehow, it sort of felt like I was on vacation even if I am there for work.

I remember, during my first foreign assignment, our team decided to go on a trip to Orlando, Florida during the Holy Week break. We visited the Universal Studios, MGM Studios, and Disneyland. But since most of us are Catholics, we still tried to observe Holy Week as much as we could.

The last day of our trip coincided with Easter and before we headed for the airport to go back home, we all decided to hear Easter mass. So we drove around the city to find a church. As soon as we saw one, we parked our rented van and ushered ourselves inside.

We noticed something odd during entire the mass celebration – the priest had his back turned towards the whole community. We thought maybe it was because it was Easter. Then communion came. We wondered why we were given actual bread and not the host that we were used to.

It was only when we got out of the church after the mass that we noticed it wasn’t a Catholic church! Haha! We had the laugh of our lives but we figured it’s our good intention that counts.

Before we actually went on the trip, we refered to online travel guides for available Orlando tours. We found http://www.trustedtours.com/. A travel site that offers discounted tours of several key cities, such as Las Vegas tours (that included a visit to Madame Tussauds wax museum), etc. You can even subscribe to their site’s newsletter, which by the way gives you a chance to win a $150 Magellan’s Gift Certificate just by signing up. It's that easy!

Next time you’re planning to go on a vacation, you may want to check out this site :)

On Phone Cards

I used to travel a lot earlier in my career, back when I was still single. I got assigned to overseas projects for months at a time -- sometimes alone and sometimes with a team. But with or without company, I cannot help but feel homesick during those times. I tend to call home almost very day. Good thing there are phone cards available that I can use to call my family back home. Hearing my loved ones’ voices never fails to ease the feeling of homesickness away. And with the frequency of calls I make, I am sure I would have blown off my per diem on phone calls without those Manila phone cards. Haha!

Swimming at Laguna

Last Sunday (03/11/2007), we went on an out of town trip. Waw's family rented a private pool in Laguna and we were invited to join them. It was Caitlin's first swimming excursion.

We left QC at 5:30 in the morning. Caitlin was still asleep so we just carried her (still in her pajamas). We made a stop at Shell along South Luzon Expressway to have breakfast at Jollibee. We arrived at AquaMarc private pool/resort at around 7:30am.

The place had an adult pool and 1 kiddie pool. The house had 4 bedrooms, 2 of which were airconditioned. There was a spot where we can grill/barbecue. There was also a hall that has a small kitchen, a big dining area and a videoke machine.



We rested for a few minutes then changed and plunged in!


Here's Caitlin with Tita Waw


The gang

We stayed in the pool until around 10-10:30am. I didn't want Caitlin (and myself) to get sunburnt.

Lunch was served around 11:30am. We had chicken and pork barbecue, inihaw na tilapia, pakbet, kaldereta, ang mangga't bagoong. Yum!

After lunch, the kids took a nap. To pass time, some of us decided to play cards while the others showed of their singing talents via videoke.


Time to swim again!



Look, Mommy, I'm swimming!


Family pic


Caitlin with Papa Ning


Waw, superwoman ka ba?


With Caitlin, Dad, and Noel


Caitlin's salbabida and arm floaters (yon ba tawag don?)



Family pic uli



Isa pa!

We really had fun! Si Caitlin, ayaw paawat sa kaka-swimming.

Sa uulitin! =)