June 22, 2011

So, today was the last day in the Philippines. It's hot, buggy, and I'm painfully sunburned.

We went snorkeling yesterday on our day off. I really don't get it. I put on sunscreen, but I still got fried. Why????? We saw lots of fishes.

I can now rank myself up with Andrew Zimmerman, the host of Strange Eats on the Travel Channel, I think. I ate balloot, spelling unknown, first half sounds like the first half of balloon, second like the second part of flute. It's an egg of a chicken taken before it hatches and boiled. One of our guys downed the whole thing, gagging. I only could do a small piece, and another guy finished mine, only gagging once. It took me five tries to finally keep it down.

The other thing I ate was raw sea urchin. While snorkeling, out boat drives dove and gathered them, and the four boys and I tried them. They were good, salty and fishy, not much to them.