Going to the Philippines!! – January 26, 2017

Well, we are off tonight to go to the Philippines.

This time we will be doing a few things different and more exciting than before.  We have come prepared with a lot of video, camera and drone equipment to show exactly what we are up to and how we are doing it.  We are going to be hanging out on the beaches of Boracay, going to the inner villages of Sara, Iloilo as well as other beaches and cool destinations along the way.  Step 1…..get to the airport and get outta here!

The airport is always a fun and exciting place for us as it represents our new adventure.  We love the hustle and bustle of getting the luggage down there are getting sorted out with the ticket counter (hopefully a free upgrade too!) and then strolling on to the lounge until we board the plane.  YVR, our main terminal in Vancouver offers a lot of small shops and restaurants for the international and domestic flights.  We always burn a little time in the shops and see what’s new, if anything, and then continue our journey down to the waiting area, of course after a pit-stop in the flight lounge to have a bite to eat.

This trip should be a little more interesting.

Going through security checks with all of the gear we have this time.   For sure, it’s the most “tech” gear we have carried in one trip.  Let’s hope for the best!

We generally arrive about 3 – 4 hours early for this flight and try to get our bags checked, then head home for a couple hours, to relax and then head back.  This time I thought because we have a special guest, Aiden, we will stay in the lounge a little longer and make sure we are fulled up and ready to go before the big journey.  A small snack/late dinner is a little more difficult at 3am as the digestive system by this point wants nothing more than to relax and get ready for the next day ahead.  Not this time, full blast into meal time and prep for the flight not so long awaiting.  The Palaza Premium Lounge is a great place for food usually, but at 3am…..not so much on the menu.  After a soup, salad and a few snacks, we hang out and kill some time before heading to the gate.

The time has come to get moving so off we go in excitement ready to…….sleep.  Boarding the plane and getting ready to fly is somewhat of a mission trying to get organized to have all of the stuff we want close-by but not having so much that the airline stewardess had an attack and gets you to put half of it back (yes it’s happened before).  Ok one little piece of entertainment here; every time we go on a plane they do the example of “if the unlikely event”, they put on the mask that supposedly drops down from the ceiling.  This always makes me not only laugh, but i have to make a joke about the mask itself as it looks like a little pig snout.  lol, jokes are either crackin now or at least in my mind they are.  This always makes for a smile on my face to get the trip started.

Manila here we come!