i ♥ Ulog #1 – My Quick Weekend Getaway

in #travel6 years ago (edited)


Do anything, but let it produce joy.

― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass


Hello Steemit Fretz!

This is my first #Ulog post, which was introduced by by @surpassinggoogle! I am now officially a ULogger! To know more about the ULog series you can check it out HERE.

My GET-AWAY ALMOST GOT CANCELLED

Last Saturday, me and my coworkers went on a teambuilding. For a change, instead of going to a resort, we decided to have it on a boat, island hopping!

I’ve tried island hopping quite a few times so I wasn’t even thinking of going and I’m assigned on a project at work that isolates me from majority of the team but I changed my mind on the last minute. 😊

Call Time: 6:30 A.M. (Woke up around 5:00 A.M. Yes! I was late.)

Location: Cordova Port (30 to 45 minutes depending on traffic).

When I left the house when it started raining and it go stronger after that. My mom also stopped me from going because of the bad weather. Got a phone call from my sister to go back but we checked the coastguard gave us a go signal and we can go island hopping!

We did not leave right away though. Our boat was stuck due to heavy rains on another part of the island so had to wait for it to subside before picking us up.


From my Coworker’s Cam

This is how our boat looks like. It is quite bigger than the ones used for island hopping since we are almost 50 in total plus we have a videoke machine as well.


FOOD

Since we did not have breakfast yet, as soon as the boat left the dock we started to eat! I wasn’t able to get shots during breakfast because I was also famished as well! TIME TO ATTACK!

From my Coworker’s Cam

I’m not a lechon fan so ate more of the bola-bola!

“Kinamot” is a Bisaya word meaning to eat with your hands. ^^

“Bola-Bola” – Meatballs Pinoy version
Lumpia/Spring Rolls
“Dinuguan” – This is Stewed Blood. The blood from the lechon is the one used to cook this dish. (Sorry if this isn’t so appetizing). ^^

We also had a Korean drop by our boat and we let him eat our food. ^^ He was from the other boat then my coworkers as friendly as they are, when the Korean swam by us and we let him have some of the food and some beer too.


Island Hopping without the Islands



In Lapu-Lapu City, every island that you want to stop by or check out has an entrance fee. Since our purpose was only to get to know the team better and have some fun. We did go hop from one island to the next without docking. 😊 We just went to the island and went swimming around the area.


Still you just can’t help but admire the view.


Here's another one!
My fret and her diving skills revealed.

Saturday is BEERDAY


Please ignore those slippers... ^^

Redhorse is the most common beer that me and my coworkers like. The boys in our team shouldered the beer so that the budget for our team-building won’t be touched and we still have budget to have the videoke machine on our boat. (How sweet of them). A few of the boys got knocked out before lunch because they got drunk pretty early! It’s been a long time I didn’t have beer in my system. Time to go on a drinking spree. Lol I didn’t get drunk though.

Time to Party!

Here’s a glimpse of how it went:

WARNING: There are tons of shrieking and screaming on this video

Hope you enjoyed checking out my first #ulog my fretz!


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You guys had a blast! Where are you?? I want to see you, not sure I've seen an image of you before.

That place is so beautiful. I never been on a boat party but I think I want to now!
I don't want to laugh at your friends diving skill. Even though its quite funny, that's about the same skill I have for diving as well XD

I think it's okay to laugh even if you can't do better :p. I don't think I could do it at all.

And yeah, Dawn gotta sneak in a few of the pictures. I think I mention that almost every time haha. That looked like a really fun trip though!

:) My face went MIA lol!

My fret definitely knows what she did. She has the same video from years ago. Need to practice her diving skills.. She makes me laugh and just love her totally!

Looks like an awesome time, love the color of the water there! And that food looks so yummy too <3

It was super awesome Amy! I get to know some of them as I don't get to mingle with them often.

hey work doesnt look so bad!! water looks great and all the food minus the blood 😫
glad you had fun!!

I know. Stewed blood. I was doing ok until that one.

Will you give it a try at @enchantedspirit? ^^

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me too! forget the "stewed" let alone the "blood." agghhhh

I know you wouldn't like the bloody! My friends said that it was yummy but didn't get to taste it. :)

yeah blahhhhghhh ... sounded as if you did not either.

^^ Guilty! I did not. I tasted it though. It is yum when cooked right. :)

You must work for a really cool company if they host team-building events like this. Looks like you had an amazing time :)

It's a team outing but the company did gave us a budget but we had to chip-in to be able to do some of the things that we want to have for our team-building. It was totally worth it. ^^

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