Christmas Eve with Lapu-Lapu

China was left behind and we're in the Philippines now. Came via Manila where we only stopped to change planes and get our security checked for the umpteenth time.
Long story short, around 20 hrs of travelling after leaving our hotel in Guangzhou (taxis, 2 planes and and a ferry), were greeted in Tagbilaran city by Jorge, the driver for the villas we're staying at. By this time, we had joined with Rami & Olga who came via Hong Kong. We have a 2-bedroom villa for ourselves, and there are 3 pools for us, a smaller one, a bigger one, and the one called the Bohol Sea.

So now I am writing this at Danao Beach in Panglao, Bohol.
and the subtropical part of the holiday has truly started. We know this mostly because of the kids coming around singing Christmas carols, and expecting a few peso in return (acknowledged by an appropriate Thank You Very Very Much -song). These kids are of the maximum age of 10 yrs, and down to the age where the smallest of them is still in the innocent age of wiggling the penis while singing Christmas songs to travellers. Too bad the camera wasnt with me just now. I'm unfortunately sure some of you would've enjoyed that kind of pics.

So it is Christmas Eve now. The eve's eve was celebrated yesterday by some Christmassy BBQ on our lawn, and later by joining the villa's staff Christmas party. Which we revived, but only for a moment, since this morning we started our scuba lessons.
For tomorrow, we took a day off the lessons, because today we have a plan of pulling some traditional Finnish Christmas Faces (perusjoulunaamat). And we'll have the tonttulakit (tont lacks), too.