A Blog About Bahol...

Yo. Amberlea here! It is amazing that I'm sitting here, because a couple weeks ago I was trapped in a cage with a man eating python and barely made it out with my life intact!! This happened when we took a day trip to the island of Bahol to see the sights there. But I'm going to write about all the other stuff that happened first to build the suspense until you reach the man eating python part.

Well, Bahol is well known to be a place to visit, especially if you are a tourist. Now we are NOT tourists, but it doesn't hurt to have a touristy day every once in a while. So at 6:00 in the morning, we boarded a boat bound for Bahol!

Upon arriving around 8, we were picked up by a man that somehow, through some people, I don't really know how, we are connected with. He was to be our tour guide for the day. All of us piled into this rickety old van that looked like it would fall apart at any moment and (literally) headed for the hills. The chocolate hills were very beautiful and we stayed for a while and took lots of pictures, then went back down the mountain to the river, where we were to eat lunch on a boat! However, halfway down, our lovely van named Sam, suddenly stopped working. Our driver managed to hail a passing motorcyclist, and head to the nearest gas station. While we waited we sat on the side of the road and talked and had a grand time! He managed to get the fuel and we got on the road again, but then the accelerator stopped working so we were inching along, hoping we would not miss our lunch boat. We made it in time though, and had a wonderful lunch aboard. It was an eat-all-you-can buffet, so we were very satisfied. It was even complete with live entertainment where one of the singers fell deep into a passionate love for Amber-Rae, and he stared at her the entire time while serenading her with love songs.

After that, we went to see the tarsiers! These tiny primates were probably the most adorable things we have even seen in our lives! They look at you with these gigantic eyes and you just want to take them home and cuddle them! I will post a picture so you can get a small grasp of why we felt this way.

Finally, the python. We went to a lovely area that had this gigantic snake in a cage. It was pretty cool and we were taking pictures of it when the worker there asked if we wanted to go in the cage and get a picture with it. Anna, Rachelle, Jared and I braved it and entered the cage. I will admit that the snake probably didn't even notice us there since she was so intent on sleeping, and we were quite unaware of her deadliness until we arrived back home and BJ informed us that the snake had been in the news and had EATEN it's previous owner. That was something they failed to mention before we entered the cage...

So that was our day in Bahol!! It was fun and we had a good, though very busy day!

Love, Amberlea