Hi Cebu, Just Dropping By

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5^th day

 With hearts not wanting to leave and with boxes full of heavy pasalubong, we boarded our Supercat to get to Cebu, where we’ll also be touring around, just hitting two birds with one stone, I guess.

It’s so much fun that we were able to see and experience so much in a day.

 We arrived at Cebu port after two hours, Kuya Allan fetched us. We were cramped inside the vehicle with big boxes and bags and all. It was noon, when Arch. Dondon and his family invited us for lunch at Ayala Center Cebu. We ate yummy and greasy CNT lechon(spit roast pork) with puso or rice in a heart shaped wrapping. A very authentic meal, lechon with vinegar and not sarsa, the way Cebuanos loved it.

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After a hefty meal, Divine went with us to buy danggit(dried fish) and etc. We went and bought danggit and dried squid to our hearts delight. We also bought some dried mangoes and fresh mangosteen. Then we rushed ourselves to Magellan’s cross. We even passed along Colon Street, which is the oldest street in the country. And we went to buy guitars. Cebuanos are known for their craftsmanship and their love for music. Then we rushed to the airport, only to be notified that our flight was delayed so it was our luck. We were able to see other sites in Cebu. We went to Mactan Shrine where a big statue of the country’s first hero Lapu-lapu stood brave.

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 Then there was the urge to buy lechon, we felt like we were hunting for treasure. Every shop we got to runs out of it. We ended up circling the whole of city for that hard to find delicacy. We got lucky at the CNT fronting SM. We held on to our boxes. With the taste of sinugba still haunting us, we asked Divine is she knew a restaurant for grilled food, we ended up in “New Larsian”, sinugba mecca. It was more than we asked for, it was a compound filled with stalls offering grilled food. We ended up on filling up with blue marlin, pork, chicken, liver barbeque with puso, ofcourse. We ate with our hands because that’s the custom there, no utensils but water and soap to wash our hands with.

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 All in all, our Cebu trip is fun. The food and people are great. It’s cosmopolitan and also laidback and minus the pollution of a city like Manila. It’s so much fun that we were able to see and experience so much in a day. And I can’t wait to see the parts of northern Cebu for the fabulous beaches also.