The Philippines
We went to the Phillippines in December and so much has happened since then! My mom came to visit and we went all over northern Thailand and Cambodia. However, since we aren't going any where until April, I will blog about that trip next month :) A little back story on the Phillippines - my brother went there for a JMU summer program and loved it! But had all sorts of horror stories about their transportation and how a girl almost slipped down a rice paddy into a volcano. I also read a lot of blogs about how you need to travel slow because most of their flights are delayed. So we decided to pick two areas to focus on - Boracay and El Nido - two very different beach towns. Right out of the gate our first flight was delayed by 3 hours! But that's ok - because I planned for that and we had a one night stay in Manilla before our early flight into El Nido. Once we flew into El Nido we took a tricycle (a motorcycle hooked to one wheeled cart) to our hotel and walked to the nearby...