Sail Away!

My best friend, who's a caterer, never gets to relax throughout the Christmas holidays as its the busiest time of the year for her. So last weekend (Jan 19 to 22), we went on a post-Christmas vacation to the city of Dumaguete for some much deserved R & R. It turned out to be a really really wonderful, laid back weekend (except for that hike we took!) and it was a great way to the start the year.

-- Watch out for my TRAVEL BLOG (under construction), where I'll write more about this trip and a retrospect of some favorite trips over the past few years! --

Aside from swimming, snorkeling, lounging, watching the ocean, eating, and sightseeing, we took the opportunity of being right by the ocean to do a simple ritual that we'd been wanting to do since 2007 kicked in: write down on little pieces of paper, all the negative things that we wanted to get rid of this year - and toss them out into the waters... hopefully banishing them forever. We didn't expect the little sail boats to actually drift out into the big blue sea... so we settled for having them crushed by the strong waves!

And so we wrote... "Away with impatience!"... "Away with anxiety!"... "Away with... etc. etc. etc."

And then we threw them into the water, watched the waves eat them up one by one, until we could see them no more. Here's to a better year for all of us!