Sorry if you can't see this, but it was dark...
Friday, November 20, 2009
Island Basketball...
Rodney found some basketball courts here on the island outside of one of the churches. He couldn't have been more excited to purchase a basketball for $4 and get out to shoot. There are guys that play up there daily and while some play for money, you can usually get a game going for fun and most of the time there are enough guys up there to play a full court 5 on 5.
Nice form...
Some local kids who were shooting around while the courts were empty
There was a tournament that went on for about two weeks that started everyday at 4. We would go and play before the tournament and then stay for a little while to watch some of the games...it's going on in the background.
More Random Pics...around the island
Just more beautiful days on the beach...
This is our usual setup...although we've now upgraded to a bigger sheet. That little speck out in the water is Rodney swimming. It's great here b/c you can swim out to where the water is like 20 ft. deep and still see as clear as day to the bottom....it's so beautiful, although I get nervous and sometimes scared every time I see a dark spot, which is ALWAYS just a rock or coconut on the ocean floor. It's a little ridiculous because these waters are so fished out that there are no sharks or dangerous creature of any kind...you're lucky to even get a single fish swimming around your feet!
This is our usual setup...although we've now upgraded to a bigger sheet. That little speck out in the water is Rodney swimming. It's great here b/c you can swim out to where the water is like 20 ft. deep and still see as clear as day to the bottom....it's so beautiful, although I get nervous and sometimes scared every time I see a dark spot, which is ALWAYS just a rock or coconut on the ocean floor. It's a little ridiculous because these waters are so fished out that there are no sharks or dangerous creature of any kind...you're lucky to even get a single fish swimming around your feet!
Hi Rodney!!!
Ocean front walking path on the main White Beach...we walk this multiple times a day
It's really neat here how during the day the beach is pretty empty...but when it's sunset, it seems like the whole island comes out to the beach to watch...
A little girl climbing a tree during sunset.
She had a little trouble getting down, so Momma had to come to the rescue...hehe
This is our favorite spot on the island to grab a quick, CHEAP bite to eat that seems to be open 24/7. It doesn't have a name so since it's down the street from the hospital, Rodney and I just call it "Hospital Food" We'll say, "so you wanna go get some hospital food?" haha. Our usual order is a Tapsilog and a Squid Sisig...which is marinated beef with garlic rice and a fried egg and sizzling squid mixed with peppers, onions, garlic and oyster sauce...so delicious and all for around $3!!!
The menu in "Hospital Food"
Tricycles lined up outside of "Hospital Food"...
Ahhh, the Boracay Mini Mart, Oh how we love thee...This is our grocery store/market. We've found that going to the street markets is a little harder for us because we usually get over charged for things due to the fact that we are not local, so we just stick to those for fresh seafood and meats. Luckily we stumbled across this mini mart when we first got to the island that has a price tag on everything and has very comparable prices to the "local" street markets. Also, the mini mart has a lot of things you can't find in the street markets like cold butter, canned goods, and household cleaning supplies...stuff like that. We shop here on a weekly basis and have become regulars with the cashiers...they sometimes even start singing to us as we walk through the entrance...haha. We love you Boracay Mini Mart!
The main road on the island...
These are some images of our walk from the main road to our house and some more images of around our neighborhood...
If you keep walking straight here, you'll come out on the beach...but we have to turn left to go to our house right after the fence Rodney is walking past...
The beginning of our neightborhood. That is a water pump in the middle of the picture with the greenery around it. All the people that live around this part of the neighborhood use this pump to get water for laundry and things like that. We are lucky we have a water hose connected to a spicket that comes out of the ground...
Here's looking back, you can get a better picture of the water pump and in the background, through all the trees is the beach
Our neighborhood store. This is a small store that takes us 10 seconds to walk to from our house. A lady runs it out the front of her home...she has a little of just about everything including produce. We typically visit her when we need a pepper, carrot, garlic or an occasional soda when we've run out or forgot them at the Boracay Mini Mart...she's very nice and reasonably priced.
Luckily we have a washing machine!!! which, I am VERY thankful for...I tried doing our laundry by hand, but I'm sorry...IT SUX! so I've settled in my western ways and use the washing machine. We have to drag the hose in the house from the spicket outside to fill up the tub and depending on if the sun has been out and how long the hose hasn't been used, we may even get HOT WATER! So once the wash is done agitating, you push the machine over to the front door, lay down the drain hose on the ground outside and drain the water out. You then squeeze out your clothes and hang them on the line outside. This is good for them airing out, but sometimes they get pooped on by the birds and need to be rewashed...haha.
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