This morning we headed out early to the beach in Calapan. First we stopped to pick up some friends of Keren's and they said they would join us later because they were making me some (pork) adobo (YUM!) for lunch at the beach.

The beach in Calapan is a black sand beach and had lots of beautiful shells. I collected a lot to bring back (which I did, in a decorated jar so that it would look like I bought it in a souvenir shop to customs officials). We also found A LOT of starfish which I had never examined up close before. Of course we threw them back into the ocean, though. There was also a lot of trash on the beach and I was very careful not to step on anything, uh, needle-like.

After a delicious adobo lunch, Kurt and I made a sandcastle with a palengke connected by a broken shell road. We managed to do this with him speaking to me in Tagalog and I speaking to him in English. Turned out pretty well and I realize that I don't even have a picture of it, oh well.

In the afternoon, we decided to head to the movie theatre to sit in the A/C and watch a movie. It was in Tagalog, but it was a horror movie, so I could easily follow the plot. We saw Matakot ka sa karma which is three horror stories in one, fortunately, because we went in at the middle of the movie and watched it to the end and then watched the beginning. I think this process is fairly usual in the movie theatres there. Ticket price was about $1 per person.

We met the olds at Chowking after the movie and discovered that there wasn't any room for us in Owner for the ride home, so Keren and I took a jeepney while they drove back in Owner. One of Keren's friends gave me tuyo (which is whole fish, dried and salted) as a present to bring home. It is yummy, but believe me, a little unnerving when you eat the eyes.

In Naujan we got off the jeepney and took a motorbike the rest of the way home. Of course, there are no helmets, so this was definitely a wonderful, wind-in-the-hair, ride home.