a person in 3,900 photos meredith We had just enough time at Narita to grab a sandwich. ...and began the long journey home. Four hour flight to Japan. The aquarium isn't very wide, but it wrapped all the way down the corridor. So there were always new fish swimming into your room! Meredith spotted... ...Hotel H20. You can choose between having a window that looks out onto the bay, or having a room with an aquarium-wall! A little after 1am, we said farewell! Congrats, Aileen & Ryan! Thanks for having us! That's my kind of cocktail! On our walk over to the reception, we ran into Bertl on his scooter and got a chance to wish him farewell! ...these really cool buses with fold-out seats that converted the aisle into ANOTHER ROW! Inside the church. College reunion. Fraggle treating us to some hot, carved-bamboo jazz flute. This invariably led to more physical violence. At some point during our night of drinking and storytelling, I told Fraggle & Bilbo about how my friends used to photobomb each other with our balls out. This of course instantly became their new favorite game. I'll spare you the hundreds of photos I have of these guys' balls. Meredith, Aileen, Una & Sam! ...for a disco ball dance-party at their favorite nearby bar. ...and then later that evening, we headed over to the Aileen & Ryan's hotel to check out where the wedding reception would be taking place. Warming up and drying off between dives! We got up super early on Wednesday morning and walked down to the beach... We went into town and had a late dinner on the beach with Bertl & Fraggle. Haha. A little later that afternoon, we rented a scooter and drove over to... Meredith was one of the few people to take our guide up on the offer to hold one of the screens. Haha. The food was sooo good! Mango and cheese salad to start... Post-breffis nap. We woke up bright and early, and when we wandered into town to find something to eat... After another TWO HOURS on the boat, we took a car from Tagbilaran to Alona Beach and finally arrive a little past 1:30am. Our taxi driver took us to a few different hotels trying to find vacancy without much luck. Then he looked us up and down and said, I know a place that probably has vacancy if you don't mind a place that's a little....different. ...Psycho Killer! (Which isn't funny unless you hear it spoken in a French accent). . ...we ran into pack of beach puppies! About the best you can do as a vegetarian in the Philippines! Before passing out, we had managed to book a snorkeling tour with a local named Ricky who pulled his boat up on the beach right next to where we were finishing our breakfast! Meredith, in her safari dress, sailing the blue Visayan Sea. (This is one of my favorite photos of Meredith.) As we got further north, the bus cleared out until we were the only people left on it. Yay, travel buddies! Meredith and Amanda out in the unreal, bath-warm water. Just a buncha rocks with a Virgin Mary statue and some impossible looking trees. Later that evening, we went out for a late night dinner on the strip. Fun motorcycle sidecar taxi ride. ...small airport. Where we waited... We woke up early and checked out! Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel for an early night jammy party. ...we opted for Shakey's Pizza! After a nap back at the hotel, we climbed through the fence so that we could walk along the beach... ...saw the old Spanish fort. ...we met up in Amanda's room to try to figure out where we should all travel to next! Amanda only had 4 days before she had to come back to Manila and head home, so we wanted to travel somewhere close enough where we'd still have time to have fun! After a delicious breakfast downstairs... We woke up the next morning... Let's hear it for international buddies! ...over to the hotel to meet up with Amanda! Amanda had been in Hong Kong and when she'd heard that we were going to be in the Philippines, we'd planned to meet up! Getting our airport Chinese on. We called the airline and found out that there was another flight later that afternoon! Last of the late night partiers! If you look closely at Meredith, you'll notice she's pointing out that... Mer, Kai and Caiti. Despite having to get up super-early the next morning for our flight to the Philippines, a little after midnight we braved the rain to head out to... Later that evening, we went to Caiti's to drop off Maddy for an extended houndsitting! Thanks, Caiti! Clayton & Mer Ellen brought along travel goodies for Sarah & Quinn...including another bottle of Rhum JM! Friend reunion at Apt 3a! ...you switch laptops. Maddy will only let you send so many emails before she expects... Tuesday morning work session in our living room. On Sunday morning, Meredith made... Speckle Horse. ...hard look. These two! Meredith has been asking Vin to help her perfect her... Later that night we went out to Cynthia's for a... Maddy likes to be held like a football under the covers. Lazy sunday. Meredith sketched faces... Three books deep! Private room at Sing Sing on a Saturday night. Prime time! Meredith did I've Got My Mind Set On You . Ready to head out! On Saturday night a whole bunch of us got together to go out for karaoke! Cupid crew. ...are blurry! Vin & Mer continuing to work on their tough-guy faces. Our groups combined tables and we ordered lots of food. ...headed over to Odessa for our traditional "welcome back to NY" breakfast. Early on Monday morning, Grant arrived on the red eye from Vancouver. He dropped his bag off at our apt and we... Other team waiting for the timer to run out. On Friday evening, we headed over to Cynthia's apartment for a friend-hang GAME NIGHT! Couch reunion. Very seldomly, the moment I capture is Meredith tiring of my moment capturing. Haha. Caiti and Jagger came over for a hang on Monday. Grimples. Party posse. ITALMOSTFITSINMYMOUTH. Ok, I'll admit it... Pile on! Later that evening, Jared & Ellen joined us... There was a very happy Seamless mix-up and we somehow ended up with both Thai food and Curly's for lunch. FEAST! Movie night with popcorn. On Saturday we got a Piper to watch while Ellen was away on vacation! On Thursday Mer and I traveled back to New York after two weeks in Florida . As soon as we got home we ran over to Caiti's to pick up our grimple! For our last evening in town, we went out to an awesome Mexican dinner with my parents and Bruce and Elyse! Get it? On Monday afternoon, the few people who were still left got together for one last meal together. We asked a passerby to take one final photo... Our crew pretty much took over the porch. 
