I love making kid's birthday invites because it allows me to to be playful with my design. I've had the privilege of creating invites for Henry ever since he was born! This year Henry turned 2 and is infatuated with everything and anything transportation. Happy Birthday Henry!
Remember when Atlanta was snowed in for almost a week back in January? As I was sitting at home looking on my computer, I wished for warmer weather and knew that if I wasn't on the beach at some point in the next month or two, then I would probably die of frostbite.
It just so happens that a good friend from college is stationed down in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for the Coast Guard. How convenient! So that same day, I booked a flight down to Puerto Rico over Valentine's Day weekend with a co-worker. We like to joke that we are in a relationship although she won't confirm our status on facebook. I have to put a "JK!" here because in my past experience my sarcasm doesn't come through and people believe everything I say.
Puerto Rico was just delightful! It's like an international vacation but not since we didn't have to use our passports and the flight was only 3.5 hours non-stop.
We arrived in Puerto Rico to 80 degree weather, fried food, blue waters and flowing Medalla!
PS. Another plus about Puerto Rico is that they have casinos. I won $20 after being down $60! Big Bucks, No Whammies!
This past February one of my good friends commissioned me to do a dog portrait of his girlfriend's dog, Belle. It was going to be part of his Valentine's Day gift for her. What a perfect Valentine's Day gift that she'll remember forever!
With that being said, I've officially opened up my own etsy shop for custom dog portraits! Visit my shop!
The view literally right outside of our hut.
Our walk down Mount Tapyas . It's a horrible picture, but I wanted to post it because of the little boy to the left of me. I sort of have a crush on him. He was so cute!! He followed us all 700+ steps and back down 700+ steps trying to get us to buy water and gatorade from him. I had to buy a couple because I could not resist his face!
The view of the islands on top of Mount Tapyas.
This was at the dock at Coron. We were waiting for our boat to get back to the resort, but the tide was so low and there were so many boats that it could not get to us. The boat guy had to swim and push this small boat to the dock and bring us back one (or two) by one. They said that they were scared to step on sting ray!!! What a sacrifice!
The cleanest lake in the Philippines: 70% fresh water and 30% salt water.
To get there we had to hike up a mountain and back down.
This was the view from the top.
To the left there are a couple of caves you can swim in where lots of birds' nests live. The Filipinos use the next to make nido soup. Yum-o!
Our next stop was the Twin Lagoon, only accessible during low tides. I had to swim underneath the mountain to get to the lagoon.
After my bathroom experience, we finally made it to Malikyan Beach? Not sure of the spelling, but I googled it and two korean sites came up. Oh well. I know it started with an M and there was a K in there somewhere. I hope someone can correct me...again, the pictures...
Can you tell we like to take jumping pictures?
In Palawan, there is an area where the water flows from underneath the ground and out into the ocean, this is called the Maquinit Hot Springs. Oh yes...I did some research for you. Better yet, I googled.
My mom and I sychronizing..
My crazy Uncle, Tito Boy!
The walkway towards the hot springs from our boat.
This is a view from the hot springs towards the ocean. The best time to go to the hot springs is during high tide.
I don't know if I felt any kind of natural effect, but it was definitely cool to be swimming in naturally heated water!
