A Beautiful Weekend at...Angela's.

This weekend, we had plans to go to Bohol to celebrate another volunteer’s birthday and also Valentine’s Day. Reservations were made, bags were packed, vacation day was scheduled…and typhoon was rolling in. Unaware of the current weather situation, we arrived at the pier at 7 AM only to find all boats for the day cancelled. What?!?! I’ve been counting down to this weekend for weeks now! We want to sit on the beach and snorkel for three solid, sun-filled days, and you’re telling me there’s a typhoon? Really? Yes. Well, it’s 7 in the morning, and there’s two of us at the pier. What do we do? Well, we headed to Starbucks to figure out our plan of action, when all we wanted to do was be on a white sand beach somewhere. The rain would have only been a slight hindrance, I swear! Well, since our vacation days were technically cancelled, it was back to work for us. We did some brainstorming and planning for a girls’ camp that we want to hold later in the year, and we headed to Angela’s center that night’s Valentine’s Day party. We danced with the girls at their “disco”, admired the awesome Valentine’s décor, judged the Miss Valentine’s 2009 pageant, and just had a lot of fun. Granted, it doesn’t compare to hanging out with your girlfriends and relaxing, but it was awesome to see everything that Angela has done at her site. It definitely gave me tons of ideas for activities to start at my site, and it was really cool to see her girls and realize just how different each site really is. Since there is no vacation this weekend, I’ll be working so that I’ll have next weekend off. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! <3