20.5.08

Amazing Race Boracay Part V: "You will never convince me that any piece of plastic is as good as cash... not after today..."

After pooling all our money, we realized that we were only short two thousand pesos. We asked the locals where we could find an ATM and they were very sure that the closest ones were back in Boracay. Melay and Joie had credit cards so we thought "Yeah!!! Problem solved!" but our hopes were dashed when we were told that they didn't have the machine that you swipe credit cards on. Gaaaah. I really don't understand how a place which is 30 minutes away from and actually contains the airport that people most often prefer to use in order to get to a major tourist destination, can NOT HAVE an ATM. If they have ATMs in Kalibo and they were able to find a way to connect those ATMs to the ATMs in Boracay [which is an island, you know, as in it's surrounded by water] why couldn't they find a way to put ATMs here? Did they think that it wasn't worthwhile?

Anyway, fortunately we had friends who were still in Boracay and they had access to those elusive ATMs. :p So we borrowed money from one friend and Muffee, who had a flight later than our original ones, was going to bring the money to us. Our friends were so wonderful that they decided to lend us a little more than what we asked for in case we needed to eat before the ones who had bank accounts were able to get to an ATM. They were even sweet enough to ask whether we were sure that the place we were going to stay at in Kalibo was nice enough and if it was possible for us to have fun there. We had a few hours to spare while waiting so we relaxed a little bit and had lunch. I was thinking that I hope that guy who was able to help us would still be there by the time we were ready to finally book our flights.

posted by jeanne @ 05:55

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