Trip to Oman

It was myrle‘s birthday and it’s in her bucket list to see dolphins on her 29th. To celebrate her birthday salubong, she treated us in Dao Xiang Restaurant along Shiekh Zayed Road. Ok na sana super sarap ng food (chinese obviously), pero may videoke on the side. And the choice of songs of some were horrific. pero we lived. my people here in Dubai are always hilarious.

 

Here’s Myrle, she’s 29 pero forever 21. She can be mistaken as a h.s student pa din forever hahaha. You need to pay for me with this one.

 

Took a pic of all of them minus metmet in SZR backdrop. It’s one of our main fave spot here in Dubai coz of the concrete jungle feels. The weather even cooperated. First time to be cold in mid-April. Hence, the world is really warming up.(GLOBAL WARMING IS SCCARRRREEH)

Well, say hi to our cool service attendant ANGEL! Kilay, lips, pilikmata, everything on point. He’s a star! Filipino servers rock! there’s one genius kuya who memorized all our orders without a pen and paper… a promil child! pede na si kuya to be promoted in a Michellin star restaurant 🙂

We effin finished at 0200! and we needed to be up at 6 am for our Oman trip RAWR. So at exactly 515, i took a bath and we hailed a taxi at 6 am going to Movenpick hotel Deira coz our tour van is waiting for us there. IT WAS LIKE A FIELD TRIP. it took us 3 hours going to the border of Oman and Dubai. I was asleep the whole time though. HAHAHA we passed by RAK and IDK where. Actually, we picked up some tourist near Dubai Mall and RAK. Those were the only times my eyes opened. To myrle and tisha, I remembered our italy day trip din. we were sedated the whole time poor tito manny, jim and elisha.

 

After all the visa stamping in the oman boarder, we were so hyped and energized! dolphins, here we gooooooooooo!

 

my choice of outfit was a booo. i was wearing a billowing dress and the air was soo much! I havent worn my bathing suit inside so epic fail! there’s a miraculous washroom down the boat so i immediately changed to my swim wear. 

ze birthday girl is patiently waiting to see the dolphins. suddenly our omani tour guide (who used german and french 70% of the time in the entire tour) pointed the dolphin packs!! they’re so big and gray. 100 times more majestic in their natural habitat than in the pools of water parks. pics were deleted from my phone… see  1/6 of my year got erased

look at our tour guide and what’s inside the boat! we had a good lunch but breakfast wasn’t much.  the crew just offered some bananas and oranges plus arabic tea,coffee and dates. good thing we bought loads of field trip food with us hehe. for lunch, we were served veggies, yummy chicken curry, hummus, and soda. We were soda pumped the whole trip. If only they offered us fresh juices uhuhu.

 

my bff tisharoo and sanirae ooohlala basking under the Omani Sun.

now, time for a dip!!!!! omg the sea was cold but comfy. it was so hilarious that my friends sani and myrle who both were non swimmers took a plunge. we all had life vests on.  even if I know how to swim, i still worn mine coz i promised my mom hahah. swimming in the sea is 50% more tiring than in the pool because of the waves+anxiety  regarding the sea creatures underneath . the german and british tourists were troupers. they snorkled without any floaters. I JUST CANT EVEN. hahah.

my artistic side view shot of the birthday girl!!!  

after our more or less 2 hours sea-scapade, we went home with full happy tanks. Happy birthday myrle! thanks for forcing us to join your dolphin hunt.