Day 290: THE GREAT ESCAPE

OUR TIME HAS COME.

First off, we were so jittery last night that we couldn’t sleep at all. Mary had a sleep disorder episode and took a picture of the ceiling which woke Kieran up at 2am. He went to the bathroom and read his email to realize Cebu Air was willing to move our flight again. We rebook at 2:48 am and at this point, sleep was hopeless. We watched Shitt’s Creek to cope.

At 4:30 am, we joined Tim and Gail, Trevor and Christian from the US Navy, and Delia and her family from America who work on diplomacy at the embassy in Manila. This was our escape crew.

At 5:00am, we get the announcement all things go. Getting on the boat was….questionable. The tide was rough and they gave us a tiny wooden board that didn’t reach the boat. You had to hold onto two drivers and get hoisted up. Tim asked Mary if she had any experience with amphibious operations 🤣 Mary made it on with no issues…Kieran smashed his knee.

It was a tiny boat and you could just feel the rolling waves; everyone wore their life jacket. At least three separate times the boat propeller stopped because there was trash in the water. Scared the shit out of us until we heard “Addidas…Addisas underwear!” The shore comes into view and we celebrate!!

Shared 3 hour bus back to Manila with the Navy kids and Tim/Gail. We had the best time talking shop as West was on deployment when COVID hit. He’s now stationed at Japan working on his electrical engineering degree! Christian is headed back to Virginia and still has one more contract to complete. We said Kieran works at Northrop Grumman and Christian immediately says, “Oh hell yeah that’s your freedom securer right there.” Tim had experience being deployed to the Middle East. Just a whole lot of fun in the car.

We decide to book the same hotel as Gail and Tim because their friendship and knowledge was so helpful. We arrived at 9am and hung out upstairs waiting to check in. Eventually we depart to go to the doctor one more time and do our laundry.

That night, we go to hot pot dinner with Tim and Gail. They fly out tomorrow and we were going to lose our temporary mom and dad for the last two days 🥲 We are going to miss them so much; thank you Tim and Gail for everything.

Hotel: Alicia Apartment

Food:
Hot pot
Jollibi Fried Chicken

Spots:
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