Adventure of the month

Me, making reservations for a dinner cruise on Manila Bay: "Hi, there will be 8 of us and I will be needing a vegetarian meal." Manila Cruise People: "Do you eat pork?" Me: "No, I am a vegetarian?" MCP: "Do you eat fish?" Me: "No. I am completely vegetarian.  No meat, no chicken, no pork and no fish" MCP: (pause) "We checked and it is ok if you bring your own food." Me: "Do I still need to pay the full price for the dinner cruise?" MCP: "Yes" Me: "Then could you please just add extra vegetarian sides? Maybe a cheese sandwich?" MCP: "Um, ok"

Two weeks ago, plans were put into place to visit Manila, Philippines. We would be flying over via Seoul and staying there for a couple of days. Of course, I had a couple of things to do already in the advanced planning stages. Unfortunately, someone else had designs on the Philippines during the same time frame,   Super Typhoon Maysak .  Not sure what was so super about it but it continued its' westerly crawl at an uncomfortable rate of speed.  There were questions as to whether we would cancel our trip or merely delay it. In the end, we did neither.  Instead, we made a last minute re-route to Cebu, Philippines, which is in the southern part of the country and outside of the super trajectory.  Under the new itinerary, we would only have one full day there but from the last minute googling I did, it appeared that we were going to a beachy wonderland.  Added bonus, our hotel looked like it was only blocks from the water.  Grab the sunscreen, e...