Philippines November 2019 Coron tour pt. 1

Wow. So in July I booked a trip to the philippines. Mainly because to be honest was because I wanted to go to a shawn mendes concert. It would have been perfect. It was my birthday week and i would have gone to the concert. Visited with my parents before they headed back to the states. It would have been perfect right?! No it wasn’t. When I tried to book the tickets for shawn mendes it shut me out. I wasn’t able to get them. Which saddened me. But I knew it was too good to be true. I had already told my boss that I wanted vacation. And I did have the time. So I booked it so that when I would come back we would all come back together. My parents and I. So now I am here. Sitting in Coron palawan Philippines. And I just had the most amazing day. Aside from my single awkwardness that comes usually tends to come about. Ugh it's terrible.

But when someone approaches me about that kind of stuff i tend to shut down.

So this is the basis of what happened.

Today november 4th

We booked a island tour hopping trip of the Islands of Coron palawan. Its such a beautiful place. Pictures cannot do it justice.

Okay so i’m single and everyone on the boat is coupled up. There is a gay couple, a couple on their honey moon and two other couples on vacation oh and there are my parents. So i’m the single one. On the boat my dad just so happens to be extremely friendly with the crew. It’s a crew of 4. All of which seem to be around my age and maybe younger.

We went to about 8 places today.

The first place was called Malwawey reef. All these places were meant for snorkling. 10 mins out in the ocean. I was the third person that jumped off the boat! Everyone else was a bit timid about it. Mind you I dont usually swim. Or at least I barely know how to swim. It was salt water and I knew how to float. So i did my best impression of Claire Danes in romeo and juliet swimming in the pool. Or was it Drew Barrymore in Ever After. It was amazing!!!

And then the second place was called twin lagoon. This was the embarrassing part. I think one of the younger guys of the crew was trying to flirt with me. Even thinking about it now I feel super embarrassed. My mom stayed on the boat. She doesnt like open water. So the rest of us left to go to this beautiful lagoon. We had to swim underneath. This bridge they called tunnel. But there were little crabbies crawling along the walls it was beautiful. I couldn't take any pictures there because I didnt have a water proof camera. It it was me and my dad and the rest of the tour group. With life jackets mind you. Because this place was HUGE people were for sure to get tired. Any way I start swimming on my own. My dad gets distracted by this older couple from another tour group whom had gotten tired so their touguide had gotten them a kayak to get on. They were struggling for like 10 mins. So then this is when the the kid from the crew from our boat began to strike with his moves on me. But little did he know I am the master deflector. He kept on trying to get me closer to him. Even tried to take me to the beach located in the middle of the lagoon. But I was like nahh bro imma just keep swimming. He kept on trying to ask me questions so much that I was getting so annoyed that I just dunked my head in the water. And began to do a back stroke back to where my dad was. Which was probably more than 2 football fields away. That was a struggle. But the kid kept following me. Even tried to help me get to my dad. The funny thing was when I finally reached my dad. My dad called him out on it! He was like “hey I thought you told me you were married” so I left them to talk to go back on the boat

Where also I can hear my mom talking to the crew members to them about how i’m 29 and still single! What the heck man! When did my love life become the topic of my parents stories to strangers?!?!?!

The rest of the day I was so awkward. I might ad more to this later but yeah….

And whose this concludes part 1 of my story of my trip to Coron.