April falls on Boracay

Just got back from a 3-day company planning in Boracay. How cool is that. No really. It was fantastic. Although, admittedly, it would have been better sans 30 pounds, but still.
Day 1.
Classroom day!
We left our bags in our hotel's front desk (Two Seasons) and then proceeded to the conference room of Pearl of the Pacific. We were broken up into 3 teams, played Pinoy Henyo, and then brainstormed for new projects. Everyone was surprisingly productive, probably because the beach was but a few meters away and we all wanted out of that classroom fast. But the excitement of Bora didn't prevent us from extending time to accommodate the ideas that we had. Uh-huh, we went overtime brothers and sisters! Imagine that. That's dedication and passion for y'all.
Day 3. Team-building
We started early, as in 8am early, and that's for people who usually get to sleep at 8am, if we're lucky. But who's going to complain? The earlier we open our eyes, the more we get out of Bora. We rented out a boat for island hopping, personally, swimming with all those fishies was the best part. I ditched the floaters early on because it only helped to choke me. And I became a happy little Ursula swimming with the little fishies. What fun! Then we went on to an -un-fun place, Pukka Beach. I can't, for the life of me, think why that would be the end part of the tour, we got ripped off even, their prices were 25% more than d'mall, and all there was to see was a small patch of rugged beach and sticks and grass structures. Really now.
Then we went back to the hotel and regrouped. We were out on a hunt with 1k per team. The treasures were: 1 photo of a super sexy bikini-clad girl, the jologest Boracay shirt, pinakabastos na souvenir, best shake, cheapest sarong. Our team hooked up with a half-Scottish, half-Filipina bodaciuos babe, albeit a little bit drunk but still very kind and even hitched up her tiny cover-up for us. We got a shirt with a kid and dolphin, hello are you in Subic? From 150 I haggled the price of the sarong down to 120. We bought one watermelon shake, not from Jonah's. And got a dick-shaped pair of slippers, in crimson red. Perfect! And the winner is! Beauty and the Best! That's us. We won all the things the other teams presented, though we were apprehensive about the shirts, and the money they saved! Hooray!
Oh, and I scraped my nose off the very grainy wall of the hotel pool. Nuff said. Pictures later.
Day 3. Free day!
Beach day! We were in the water for half the day. Taught some of my officemates to swim. Saw this man crossing the length of the beach, breaststroke and thought I'd try it too. Happy! I did it! Next time I'm in Bora, I'm gonna try to breaststroke the length of station 1. Whee!
Then we had to leave. And the sucky part was the heat in the Caticlan airport.
But all in all, it was the best company planning I've had!
Three cheers for Y&R!