Tuesday, April 04, 2006



So, I've officially started my summer vacation the day after our batch outing. Actually, I didn't really feel like tagging along but due to future boredom and nothing to do at home, I decided to join. I wasn't expecting it to be such an adventure. I mean, along with the trip and beach fun were mishaps and misfortunes. No, I'm totally not kidding. It fun, really. I got to experience the things I never really imagined I could try like pushing a van in the middle of a muddy track. Whew.




Just let me give a rundown of all our activities in Bicol. I wish I wouldn't forget to mention anything. (Hmm.. let's test my brain. :P)




Day 1: Oh, it was all for travel. Yup, morning until night time. I swear. At first, I thought the trip would range from 8-10 hours only but surprisingly, it exceeded. Waaaaay beyond. Our butts were burning on our seat and probably, left marks already. It was boriiiiiiiiing.


We left home at around 5:15 in the morning and reached Sogod, Bicol at 8:30 in the evening. Wow. 15 hours. Sweet. SO NOT.


On our way, we had stop-overs, of course. Atleast we weren't sitting on our butts the whoooooole time. Ha. If that were to happen, I would have probably burned my seat. :P Sadly, when we were nearing our destination, heavy rain started to pour. Oh, what a summer! Then, when we stopped over to eat lunch, our driver noticed that our front (left) wheel was flat, probably due to the rocky, unbearable and tough road in Quirino Highway. We passed the other way that's why. The back, I mean. So, we were a bit delayed. We still had a long way to go.. only finished half the trip by then.




Fortunately, after many hours of sleep, I woke up in an unfamiliar, huge lot with a house and a guest room house. Tooooough. Sweeeet. Well, I found out that it was a congressman's house. Wow. And, from there, we were treated like royalty. Anything you want, just ask. Cool. We had dinner and explored the place. It was nice. I was amazed. O__O




Day 2: Raining again. Don't let the weather stop you from having fun.. wait, but what if it already did? Bummer. X__X Suppose to be, we were to go to the foot of the Mayon and visit the resthouse and Planetarium. But due to rainy weather, it was postponed. Instead, we headed to a restaurant, more likely a bar (Hahaha!). If I'm not mistaken, it's called Pahayhayan. Anyway, what do you guys care? :P





After lunch, we proceeded to Tiwi just for merienda. We ate Halo-Halo somewhere (I forgot the name... but it was featured in Inquirer before :P) and it was weird. It had cheese on top. They said that it was the original Bicol style Halo-Halo. How would that baby taste? Well, I had mine without cheese. Yeah. I don't have much gutts to try it, anyway.


We had dinner in Pacific Mall. It was cooooool. You really wouldn't feel like you're in Bicol when you're in the mall. o__O



Day 3: Drizzled. Not rain. Yay! So, we headed to the beach. Their beach was really pure, black sand. It was fun anyway. Sand was smooth just like Boracay, only it's blaaaaaaaack. Woo-hoo. Didn't stay long though since we still had lunch schedule with Tita Rose :P Hahaha.


Tita Rose's house was really nothing but a mansion. Mansion in the midst of the province. Ha. Coooool. Anyway, the food they served was great. I ate a loooooooooooot. As usual. It's nothing new, I guess.


Afterwards, we went to Mt. Mayon already. We went to the foot of it. Then, visited the Planetarium. Amazing. :P It was cold up there, just like Baguio. Fun. So fun.





Next, we visited Cagsawa. Nothing really but the buried church. Seen it before already, but there was no harm in seeing it again. There were just so many stuffs sold there.. that's all I could say. LOL.


Had dinner with Kuya Mark (son of Cong. Lagman) in the house. It was talk, talk, talk for the oldies. Blah, blah. Late at night, we still had Karaoke. We were sooooo noisy. I swear. :P Pero, it was fun singing our hearts out. I mean, it doesn't matter if we were all out of tune, no one could sing that good among us anyway. Hahaha.



Day 4: Go home day. Left early morning. Trip was boring. Blah, blah, blah. Burned the seat, left a mark again. Naaaah, just kidding. I was just so eager to go home and sleep on my bed.



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