5 Fun Ways to Enjoy Your Rainy Beach Vacation

Summer’s over and you haven’t even had your vacation. You’re having second thoughts about going to boracay island resort because the rainy season just started. But you know that with your busy work schedule, this is the only time of the year you can have that oh-so-well-deserved beach vacation and you desperately need one.

Don’t fret. Who said that you should have vacations only during summer anyway? Go to the beach. Have that vacation. Perhaps you shouldn’t visualize yourself basking in endless days of sunshine though. Be realistic. When it’s “raining on your parade,” make the most out of it. Besides there are a lot of fun, exciting, and relaxing activities you can do on a rainy vacation at the beach.

1. Eat your heart out and taste the local delicacies. It’s no fun when you’re on a trip and you’re still going to eat fast food. Eat healthy and taste new things. Remember that vacations are for deviating from the humdrum routinary life of yours.

When it’s raining, seek out restaurants where you can make an experience out of the meal. Pick a restaurant that has a fabulous view of the beach or try restaurants where you can interact with chefs while watching the meals being prepared. You might even be able to catch some indoor barbecue nights where your dinner is accompanied with dance and music.

2. Take a class. A lot of hotels and resorts nowadays are offering classes for tourists on a holiday including yoga sessions. Cooking classes are a great way to learn how to recreate some of the amazing meals you’ve enjoyed at the local restaurants. You can also take a swimming lesson since most beach resorts have pools and offer this service to their customers. And if you catch a little bit of sunlight along the way, you can request for a diving lesson and take a tour under the sea.

3. Read. Find a comfortable couch with a view of the ocean, order coffee or tea, and settle in with the book that you’ve been planning to read for a very long time. Who said you have to pack every minute of your vacation with physical activities, anyway?

4. Indulge on an all-day spa. Extend your regular hour long massages to two or more hours. Take the time to exfoliating your skin with facials or mineral scrubs. Detox your worries away in a “me-time” moment in the steam room.

5. Do something crazy and plunge into the sea. You’re going to get wet anyway. Appreciate the rain and let go of caring if you’re wet or not. Throw all your inhibitions to the wind and let the raindrops take away all your stress. Play in the wet sand because it’s much better playing in the sand when it’s not scorching hot. And after all that, go back to your hotel, take a shower, warm yourself in front of a fire place or watch TV in your room and drink hot chocolate. Now that’s euphoria!

4 Romantic Ways to Propose at the Beach

Photo credit: http://suite.io/alice-ladkin/The year 2014 has been a year for love and engagements. If you’re reading this, you’re probably planning on proposing to your special someone too and you want to know how to get her to say “yes.”

One of the best places to do this is, of course, the beach. Here are some creative suggestions for a romantic engagement proposal at the beach.

The message in a bottle

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Take your partner on a picnic at the beach around the romantic hours of dusk or early dawn. While you’re basking in the sun and chatting about life, love, and family, pretend you saw something along the shoreline. You tell her that you want to check it out and you go there to “investigate.” Take this opportunity and pull out the small bottle from your pocket with a note that you prepared earlier. Show her the bottle and ask her to read the note out loud. As she reads it, pull out the ring and give her time to connect the dots. Now all you have to do is get on your knees and give her the ring.

Write your heart in the sand

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Picture this. Its sunset, the two of you are walking along the shore hand-in-hand, listening to the rolling waves as the gentle breeze blows around you. While walking, you come to a spot where there seems to be something written in the sand and pretend that you haven’t seen this before (although you’re the one who wrote it there earlier). Let your partner read the message. As soon as she’s done reading, pull her closer to you, take the ring box out of your pocket and pop the magic question.

Bury your proposal in a treasure chest

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You have to plan this one with a friend or a staff at the boracay hotel you’re staying. Put your engagement ring in a treasure chest and bury it in the sand somewhere secluded in the beach. The chest should be sticking out of the sand so that you can spot it. You have to ask someone you trust to watch over it until both of you get there. Next, suggest that the two of you have a romantic stroll somewhere near the “buried treasure.” When you get to the spot, ask your partner what she thinks it might be and encourage her to dig it out of the sand. Once she opens it and finds the ring, tell her that you treasure her and ask her to marry you.

Say it over a bonfire

Pick an isolated part of the beach where the wind is mild and high tide won’t reach. Set up the bonfire and maybe a couple of drinks. Snuggle up to your partner in front of the burning fire and talk about how that fire is very much like how she sets your heart on fire every time you look at her. And that you want to keep that fire burning for the rest of your life.