eurotrip and moving in

In 12 days, my husband is off to Germany for two months.

I will be alone for about a month before I get to be with him for three weeks. Actually, I'm thinking of staying on for a month because Ivan wants us to go home together. However, the extra week will be without pay cause I only have 15 days of paid leave.

One week without pay or One extra week in Europe?

Not much of a choice there.

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Some good news.

By the end of week, we hope to move in to our condo.

Yesterday, we visited the place and assessed what needs to be done. Today, we bought about 6++ gallons of paint to cover the different areas in the condo.

Imagine this... Our living room is sunny yellow, the kitchen is orange high, the bedroom is true blue, while the comfort room is green on green.

I'm loving it already.

Hopefully, we get to fix everything by this week so that we can move in this Saturday. We hope to have a mini condo blessing and have lunch with both sides of the family.

*me crossing my fingers*

I hope nothing happens that will jinx this.

honeymoon slide show

heaven in shangrila

This my first time in Cebu. People recommended to check in at Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Spa and so I did. I thought it was a bit pricey, but what the heck, even if its just for one night. After all, it is our honeymoon.

To be honest with you, this post would sound like an unpaid advertisement for the resort.


One word that I can think of to describe our stay here is... PERFECT.

Our one night stay turned to two nights and it feels it's still not enough. I honestly don't want to go home.

We stayed at the Ocean Wing, where we are at the staying at the Ocean Club Floor. Love it. Love it. Love it.


Albeit the room costs more than the others, we have certain privileges that are not available to all guests, like:

• Free wi-fi at the lounge (although family and friends are questioning why we're online on our honeymoon)
  
• Free drinks and snacks during the day (drink all you can soda, coffee, and eat all you can lays, cashews, etc.)
  
• Free cocktails from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, where we had vodka among other things.
  

The view from the room is the beach and it's so wonderful to overlook that and the rest of the landscape.

The bed was perfect (in more ways than one). The Ipod speakers in the room proved to be useful when we started playing tunes. The food was delightful. What's more I was able to poop more than once in the hotel.

For those people who really know me, that's a very big thing! I thought I would go for days without the trip to the bathroom, but Shangri-La proved to be very homey in that aspect.


I love the very relaxing atmosphere that the resort offered. I love the staff who are very nice and friendly. There was this one guy at Acqua wherein I thanked him out of habit and he said, "It is my pleasure to be of service."

That is absolutely something that I don't hear (or see) everyday. People here take their jobs with pride and their service is impeccable.

I can't wait to go back here. As Joshua, the front desk guy said, he hopes to see us with junior Ivans and Cecils.