On April 4, 2008, my family went on a company-sponsored outing to Puerto Galera. It had been a company tradition at Shimizu Co., the company my father works in, to take all of its staff and their families outing once a year. This year, my Dad decided to go, and us along with him. It took about three hours to reach Batangas by bus, then about an hour by boat (Montenegro Lines, one of Shimizu Co.'s biggest clients) to Puerto Galera.
We had the afternoon of Friday to ourselves. My family spent it either reading, sleeping, and commenting on the tackiness of the curtains.
We had games the next day with the company's employees. What I really enjoyed, though, was pizza there. The pizza was good. There was an Italian restaurant near our cottage. It was owned by an Italian dude and his Filipina wife, who used to be his maid (talk about Cinderella story :-) ! )The scenery was breathtaking. Beautiful beach, beautiful sky, beautiful white sand. Just look at the pictures. They're not photoshopped. The shades of blue and green were really that deep. Beautiful. Plus the rocks on the beach... many of them were marble! Maita said Romblon was nearby. That was another thing I enjoyed: walking on the shore and picking up marble.
It was nice spending the afternoon walking along the beach, picking up stones, and just taking it easy. I even made a sand sculpture of a face.
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