day 1 and 2 of our trip to the philippines

sorry i haven't posted on here in a long time.  this site wasn't working properly and wasn't allowing me to post pictures for a while.  but today is a good day, because i was able to upload photos.

ryan and i decided to have a real honeymoon/anniversary trip/ birthday trip all-in-one this year.   we decided to go to the philippines and thailand to have a huge celebration of our life together.  and since the first year anniversary gift has to deal with paper, we chose our plane tickets to act as that "paper" gift.

day 1 and 2 of the trip was full of plane rides, taxi rides and hostels.  this is the first hostel we stayed in.  it was in manila and only cost about 6 bucks a night.  we stayed one night and then caught another plane to cebu island.

 our hostel in cebu city was a definite upgrade.  it only cost about 13 dollars a night.  it included breakfast in the morning.  we had filippino sausage and garlic rice.  notice the nice floors and flat screen tv.

we spent a rainy day in the city and saw a lot of people selling anything they could on the side of the streets.  we even saw 3 little boys running naked in the rain and sliding on the slippery concrete.  it looked fun.

back in this little cove were several restaurants each with their own karaoke system, and each with a woman lounging in her chair with her drink and food singing great tunes such as celine dion and whitney housten.

more pictures to come (with less rain.)