We arrived in the port at Amlan at around 1 am or so. We then took a pedicab that cost us P300 from Amlan to Dumaguete City. They have a weird looking tricycle than the ones we have here on Cebu, I was struggling due to my height. Not having problems whatsoever with my weight since it was only my mom, aunt and I on the tricycle. Oh! and the driver. Let's not forget the driver. LOL. I was leaning the whole time, I think it was a 30 minute ride, I forgot about the time. It was the worse 30 minutes of my life. I was leaning forward sometimes leaning on my side, and the only thing I can see was pitch black. If only you guys can feel my agony that time. The only thing that was inside my head was "This is once again, part of the adventure I wanted for some time now! DEAL WITH IT!". That phrase kept on echoing inside my head. Well, I also imagined a really nice and comfy bed in a hotel room that we are about to stay ( My mom promised me that! *wink*).
Now we're in Dumaguete, we need to go to the Boulevard where the hotel was located, unfortunately the driver said, he wasn't allowed to go near there due to the restrictions. There are certain tricycles that can go to some places. So my mom asked him to just continue since there are no police at that time of night. He was a bit hesitant at first but in the end he did continue. We didn't know the name of the hotel, only the location. What my mom knows is that the hotel is near Shakey's restaurant. That's all, again the driver doesn't know where it is. We just followed the street until the end, still no signs of the restaurant, we did pass a few numbers of Inn's and hotels but my mom wanted the one that she "knew". A few minutes passed the driver can't go on further and transferred us to another tricycle/pedicab, one that can go anywhere in the city. My mom paid him P200 and another P100 for his kind gesture during the time, that's the reason for the P300 cost that I said earlier.
The next driver gladly accepted us and guided us the whole time. Here comes the fun part and one of the highlights of the adventure. We started off by looking for that hotel and I swear it took us a while. The driver said that Shakey's has been closed for a long time now and that he knew the hotel beside it. It was named Bethel but my mom insisted that it wasn't it, so there has been an argument for a while but not a heated one, just a friendly argument. But here's the thing, the driver then said, "Almost all of the hotels and inn's are fully booked, due to the Palarong pambansa!" That was a bit of a shocker for us since we didn't have anywhere else to stay. By the way, the Palarong Pambansa is for a bunch of high school students from around the country competing in a variety of different sports. So back to the hotel search, the driver then just went around the whole city asking but luck wasn't on our side that not for all of them are fully booked. We were a bit disappointed since we don't have anywhere else to go, the driver even told us that he'll just stay with us until morning. Such a good man, we then just went to Mcdonald's to buy dinner. While on our way, I just ate the hard-boiled eggs ( what can I say? I'm really hungry that time and that also caused my hard-boiled egg addiction, if there's such a thing ). All of us have the same order, a quarter pounder meal and I on the other hand had large fries and coke and a double hot fudge. Yes! I was that hungry. . While still on the search, the driver remembered a motel in Sibulan, a few minutes away from the city. Then we immediately head on to that motel. 
Long story short, there are available rooms in this creepy motel, well it was creepy during the night. . It was really dark and we went inside there garage as seen in the picture the one on the right, each room has their own garage, then we were greeted by a creepy shirtless guy. He was nice but creepy at first. I just have these weird feelings when it comes to motels. LOL. We never know maybe someone died in there without us knowing and again, YES! I'm the paranoia type of guy. The rooms were good though and it come with a price. P250 on the first two hours and P100 in the succeeding hours. . We stayed there for the night, more or less 6 to 7 hours. You do the math! :P
The next day we then checked out and went on with our plan, go to my mom's "friend" and talk them into something. Not sure what that something is and if ever I knew about it, I wouldn't mention it here but there's no dirty business, just something personal between them. Wild guess!
We took a bus to a place, I forgot the name, it's in the mountains, I think it's a 3 hour ride from Dumaguete. Did I mention that we rode a tricycle from Sibulan to Dumaguete city where the bus terminal is? Yes, we did. Now, on the trip, I noticed some really good views but I wasn't able to get some shots due to the difficult position I was in and I don't know how to take pictures on a moving vehicle, I'm pretty slow in adjusting the settings of the cam. Still learning so bear with me on this one.
I'm not gonna talk about the bus ride since nothing special happened there and I would like to cut to the chase. We went there, my mom talked. Oh wait, I saw some horses and we crossed a dried up river, all there is were some huge rocks. It was a difficult walk, look at me, I'm huge! I was sweating a lot. If I stayed I would probably fill the whole area with sweat. Eck! So here are a few pictures there,
As you can see on the picture on top where there's a tree and some rocks, that's the river we crossed, no water there which is a bit weird. I do love seeing the horse men and the kid. There are two men on the horse that day but only took a pic of one. He's the one who showed us the way to my mom's friend's house.
It is on that same day that we also met my uncle and aunt who lived in Bacolod. We met back in Dumaguete after the trip to my mom's friend.
We didn't have lots of activities that day, well we went to the park at night and watched the festival there. You can see lots of small shops that sells mugs, key chains, toys, hats, shirts and some other souvenir items. There is even a small carnival and an Observation wheel a.k.a Ferris wheel. It was a bit fun. We ate at a Filipino restaurant that is really expensive. We hated it, the food isn't even that great. We should've gone to the cheaper ones instead.
It is that night that we just strolled around the boulevard also and just rested on the sides since we were walking around the park enjoying the crowd and the things that were sold there. . Again, I was sweating crazy.
I didn't have a picture of scene in the boulevard since there people taking pictures first and it seemed like they were practicing on doing night shots, so I just sat down and waited for my mom to buy some water since I was a teaspoon short to being dehydrated.
My Aunt Bebet and Aunt Cherry were talking and my Uncle and I were also talking for a while. My mom on the other hand was still admiring the things sold by the vendor near us. I think she bought some bracelets there. She gave me one, I said that it wouldn't fit me but she said to just soak it in water then it will fit me. i guess it was like magic. LOL.
I didn't know what material it was made of but I'm pretty sure it was one of the weirdest thing I've heard since the bracelet has this woody texture to it. Everything here has been weird.
This one on the right was taken in the park. Heck, all these pictures were in the park. There's my mom looking at the necklaces and stuff. She was looking for some dream catcher necklaces that my sister asked. It was really fun, I knew I should've bought that big dream catcher. LOL
Remember we went to the Boulevard to rest and my mom bought that weird bracelet? Well, I think it is there that she knew about the Wuthering heights Resort. When she knew about it, we then head there since we can't go back to the motel due to its price.
It's a bit of long drive from where we were but I reckon it wasn't an hour drive, 20-30 minutes give or take. LOL. So we arrived there and stayed for the night since we still have lots of activities for the next day.
I must admit though that the building is kinda creepy too and a bit old fashion but the beds are cozy and they have a huge room that fits 5 people. You just pay extra for the mattress. So the pictures were taken during the day, after we got a good and proper rest. Look at how we're all ready for the next trip. . Oh I'm not in those pics. . Just to clarify that.
I'm gonna take a few minutes break, so I'll continue writing about the adventure on the next post. . It would be a long post since it's a three day trip! Stay tuned.
Cheers!
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