"What a Burn" in Coco Beach

After Banaue, our travels took us to an island south of Luzon in the Philippines. On this island, we stayed at Coco Beach Resort. To summarize these events, the first thought to our mind is: "What a Burn!"

The most obvious way is the sun. Jessica turned red and Jason turned black (guess who is writing this one). So, I say to her, "what a burn!"

That brings up a separate tale, competition. We found a game that can only be defined as horizontal skee-ball. You roll a lopsided, wooden ball (no two balls are alike) up a ramp and it falls left whenever it feels it might be appropriate, where it runs across a set of holes, hopefully going in the one worth the highest points. When we first arrived, Jessica had found her calling. Jason didn't have a chance. Jessica told me, "what a burn!" by the middle of the trip, we were both raised to the level of "island expert". Sometimes, it is amazing what will entertain us... For hours.

We didn't just sun bathe and roll wood, vacationing with us is hard work. We traveled into "the town" where we expected a nice dining experience, and maybe some shopping, etc... "What a burn!" We told the boat driver that we wanted ~3 hours to explore, but in 30 min we had seen the whole town, including some interesting grade school singing, amazing views from public viewpoints, and more new types of food than we could track! Luckily, the boat driver had not finished his in-town purchases yet, so he was still around to drive us back to our horizontal skee-ball championship.

We went kayaking throughout the lagoon to check out beaches, homes, etc... When we got back, we figured out that Jason dropped the key at one of our beach adventures. Oops! The only free way to get it back was to take the kayak back out and get it, so that is what Jason did after a whole day of kayaking before that. What a burn!

Finally, we were certainly burned at finding out two instances that make even us nauseous: 1) fine dining on a revolving platform that constantly jerked due to aged gears (the picture) 2) hitting the very high seas in a tiny boat on our way back.

Partially because of these minor burns, we had an amazing experience seeing the island culture of the small town, checking out the sweet homes while kayaking throughout the small bay, sun bathing on our own, private beach (at least while we were there), learning about new, cool drinks at happy hour, fine dining around the resort, etc... Our only regret was not having enough documentation on the iPhone such that we could put a sweet picture on this blog. What a burn!!