Cebu! Day 4: Ocean Park, Mall Crawl and Home Sweet Home

It was the only day that we didn’t have to wake up super early and I could use the gym. I hesitated but still managed to drag myself out of bed and into the gym. The motivation? The thought of the weighing scale back home, revealing the 3 days’ damage. 

There were another family in the gym. The kid was happily messing around. I did my kickboxing HiiT and was happy that I had earned my calories for my bfast. 

We had a very relaxing itinerary for the last day. We took our time at bfast and were trying not to overeat. Then back to the room to use the bathroom and packing before checking out. Our 1st stop was to go eat Lechon. Ya, eat again. Lol. 

Yday, our driver said that we should try the House of Lechon at 10am. That was exactly what we did. We didn’t have to wait for a table and Lechon was available. 

Lechon! Oink, oink.

We were not hungry but we must eat Lechon and it doesn’t make sense to only eat Lechon. So we ended up with a table of food. 

Nana even ordered dessert - mango mochi.

The food didn’t disappoint us. 

We took a grab to the Ocean World, which is like an aquarium. I thought it was ironical that we were going to see fishes in tanks when there were so many fishes swimming in the sea. Lol.

What greeted us wasnt fishes but birds. 

And other animals.

Finally the fishes. Well, some sorts included. 

Are mermaid some sort of fish? 

Their mermaids were very well fed. One of them wore a snorkelling masks. Haha.

Nana was super funny. She has purposely brought and worn a pair of fishy socks, to take pictures with the fishes. Too comical! 

There was a restaurant with a hugh tank but we didn’t have lunch at Ocean Park bcos we had 2 bfasts. 

We also caught a bird show. Instead of hawks and eagles, they have pigeons. Haha. 

The park wasn’t big and we were done in 1.5hrs. What caught our attention was the huge looking mall across the road. The other place that we had intended to go was the Science Center but decided otherwise when we saw how much to do in the mall. 

There was of course some shopping involved but several activities too. We played darts and basketball machine while Daddy Lim dozed on the massage chair. 

Then we tried our luck at the claw machine and did more mall crawling until we stopped for a tea break. This is some Filipino cake. It is hard and full of cream. 

We had other snacks too.

To burn some time, we also caught a movie. Once that was done, we took a grab back to the hotel, collected our bags and took another grab to the hotel. 

Our flight was at 1.10am. We arrived at the airport at about 8.30pm. I didn’t check my emails and only found out about the flight delay to 2am when we arrived at the airport. The check in counter only opened at 10am, so we snacked some more. Zaky had wanted to eat Jollibee at the airport. That was his bucket list, only to find out that our terminal has no Jollibee. We eventually settled for BK after we cleared immigration. 

The kids (especially Zaky) finally took out the work that they had lugged from Singapore. Zaky brought his Mac book too. He shouldn’t have bothered. Lol. 

The checkin and immigration were smooth, though a long wait despite only us and another person in the Q. Zaky was so sick of the Filipinos’ lack of efficiency. We had to wait for everything and sometimes, we cannot understand why it would take them so long. I was worried that I would exceed the carry on bag weight limit but only 8.4kg. I had the heaviest bag.

We were informed that the flight was further delayed to 2.55am. I have always seen people sleeping on the floor in the airport. This time, I tried bcos the chairs were so hard and uncomfortable. The was a smoking room next to the hall where we were waiting. The smoking room has sofas that look more comfortable. Why? 

We almost missed our flight bcos we didn’t know that it was boarding. It was a tiny plane with a 2 by 2 configuration. Zaky benefited and sat in the exit row with Daddy Lim. He dozed off soon after boarding and the air stewardess had to wake him to explain the safety procedures. I don’t feel quite safe. Lol. 

Needless to say, we all knocked out. No food, no entertainment, never mind. While not the most comfortable, I slept most of the way back to Singapore. 

Mochi was waiting for us to feed him. 

We were heading to my brother’s place for lunch. It was a busy morning of catching up on sleep, do homework, unpacking and housework. When I was finally done with the laundry and vacuuming, I had to reward myself. 

This marked the end of our short and adventurous Cebu holiday. Cebu has far exceeded our expectations. It was so good. 

Mummy Lim