2 posts tagged “swimming”

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Its obvious we have to talent whatsoever in terms of diving or swimming - the other guys fell different directions, so we had to not jump or else we could have injured the guys that dove in first.

Then There Were Games
Ate Ria came up with some games. Games that if you do not have the perspective and humility, would erode your soul and crush your ego. In other words, awesomely fun games.

Disregarding context, you'd think this guy just killed a cheetah by sitting on its head. This game's for couples. Both would be blindfolded and the wife would try to feed the husband a hotdog slathered in ketchup. First to finish three hotdogs wins. And gets plastered all over the Internet on some blog nobody reads (self-contradictory, I know, but it's all good). Fun. The next game was for the little kiddies and teens. What they needed to do was to transfer cola from one bottle to another using a straw; fastest one to finish wins.

The kids mostly spilled half the cola on the table. Then they drank a fourth, and whatever was left went into the other bottle. Yeah, pretty much.
The teens did the same but with more snore. C'mon, little kids making a huge mess is incredible juvenile entertainment! Anyway, it was still fun.

This was the second funniest game of the day (next to the ketchup-slathered hotdog eating contest); what you had to do was use a pump-action bug spray to propel a feather around a track and give it back to your next teammate to do the same. First team to have all five members back wins. *I honestly don't know where she gets her game ideas*.
I was shooting video of all the games when I got dragged into this, so I gave it to Mai Mai when I had to participate. As expected, I made an ass of myself when I completely forgot who my teammates were and proceeded to taunt them when they were being given the prizes. Then they told me I was part of the team. (We won, even though I blatantly cheated; I cheated because I actually thought we were surely gonna lose the race and decided to just try to mess up the other guy a la Dick Dastardly). I'm an ass.

Here's a [crappy] video of above:

Oh well, good times.

The next game was another one for couples - The Egg Race! Couples had to rest an egg between their cheeks and go around a track. First team to get all 5 couples back wins.
The last game was probably the most ridiculous. I don't know what to call it. You had to put on a pair of shorts, a t-shirt, and then an improvised cap that had a pin on top, run to a girl holding up a balloon, jump up to pop it with the pin on your cap, get doused with flour, run back, take everything off and give it to your teammate. Rinse and repeat. Oh, and all the while spinning a hula hoop.
Tsk tsk, adults today.




Anyway, before we go, ladies and gents, former president Fidel V. Ramos:

Traffic was very light, and we got to the place after just an hour. The other people got there earlier, so it was already a pretty lively scene once we got there.

It was a really nice place - the owner put out all the stops. Everything has a consistent look and design, landscaping's great, and nothing looked out of place. And it's only P150 per head! 

The water in the pool was really warm! It was already warm outside, but once you get into the pool, its even warmer! I take it that the hot spring where they take the water from is a bit sulfuric (although it doesn't smell). You can erect two parasols over the pool (only one was put up during our time there) 

There were open air huts on the opposite end of the pool. That was prolly the breeziest section of the whole place. Adjacent to the pool is the building housing the dining area and the rooms (if you'd like to stay overnight). There was also a videooke machine, but the microphone provided is pretty testy; you'd have to put really close to your mouth, otherwise it wouldn't pick anything up.

This is how huge this place is... we were around 70 people, and there was still room to go around!

The building has a second floor balcony that overlooks the pool.  

The rooms are pretty good looking and clean, too. This room can house about 4-6 people. I wasn't able to get shots of the bigger room downstairs.

Back downstairs, there's a billiards table right next to the grill and exit to the main street. The problem is, they don't have that triangle thing so we had to set every rack by hand. That got tedious when we got tired of playing 9-ball and went up to 15 straight!

We mostly just just swam in the morning, ate lunch, and then swam some more in the afternoon. To try and alleviate the boredom that comes with 8 hours of doing nothing but swim, we did cannonballs. Lots and lots of cannonballs. Then we tried synchronized swimming and diving. Then we tried synchronized swimming and diving with cannonballs. Uhhh... Gotta ask my uncle for the pictures. I was too busy injuring myself with pool dives to take photos of me... injuring myself (my tailbone grazed the pool floor a couple of times). 

Then, we had some parlor games. The games were a riot, and involved carbonated beverages, hotdogs and ketchup, bug sprays and feathers, balloons and pincaps. Think of it this way - if it wasn't a game and you were doing it, you'd be what people call a "retard". But it was great fun, and everybody was either cracking up or grabbing their sides in laughter. I've got video, but I still have to convert it. I'll post it some time later.

And then... more swimming. The most fun really came in the afternoon, when everybody just got bored of wading around and decided to try and do more fun things with what they can find (i.e., people, and the pool). So some of the guys started randomly picking people up and tossing them into the pool. This was hilarious, since they had to chase around some of the people who still didn't want to swim and forcibly dump them into the water. Then, when they picked other guys to toss in, they just gave up and tossed themselves into the pool (apparently realizing the futility of running away).

We wound the day down at 6PM. If you leave any later, they will charge you for another day. If you'd like to stay overnight, same charge, but you have to leave at 7 in the morning to make way for any possible customers who'd like to rent the place out as well. This was way better than the last hot springs resort we tried last year. 

Anyway, the only problem you'll probably have to face is the traffic going back home. The roads are always tight, and the amount of vehicles heading back to Manila is just huge. We spent an hour just getting from the resort to the highway. We had dinner at a Jollibee at the Total gas station on the South Super Highway, since we were all spent and hungry. 

It was all good, and we went home tired but satisfied. Plus, I made it just in time to watch House M.D. X3

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