Holiday Week

First of all, since I haven't been online for about... ages now, and missed out on all the greetings, here’s to all of you (even though it’s a bit late hehe): Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

So I’ve been gone for a while and I missed blogging! I have a lot to update you on so here goes! 

 We just spent Christmas at home. We didn’t travel somewhere this year. This is the first time in three years that we celebrated Christmas at our house. It was a happy time for me because I got to celebrate it with Joe. :) It was a couple-filled night because my cousins celebrated it with us with their significant others, and my sisters and their boyfriends were there too. I love Christmas!

Right after Christmas, Joe and I immediately traveled to Puerto Galera in Mindoro Island for our planned diving trip. It was mostly because I was gonna take my advance diving course (which I am now certified at!) The beach was very beautiful! It was very relaxing and the hotel staff was really nice. We were there for 5 days and I wish we stayed longer. I also really really liked my dive instructor, this Italian dude named Ermanno. He’s so cool!

I also had a near-death experience 97 feet underwater! But I’ll write about it more and in detail in a different post. :)

For New Year’s Eve, I didn’t get to spend it with Joe, hence I didn’t get my New Years Kiss. :( He wanted to spend it with me, but I didn’t want his mother to be alone on New Years so I just told him to spend it with his mom. She couldn’t spend it with us either because we all party so late and she’s too old to handle that. Nevertheless, Joe and I spent New Years Day together. 

We had fireworks and everything and it was all so fun until we heard people screaming and we saw this huge blaze just behind our house. We checked it out and our neighbor’s house was on fire! 

It was caused by the fireworks. There were 5 explosions because the house was filled with paint and propane tanks. It was so scary! Luckily, the firemen arrived just in time to put the fire out. 

Well, that’s about it. :) I hope ya’ll had an awesome New Years as well!