Road Trip

Today I went road tripping with friends. We went from the review center where we met up with some of our friends who were coming along and bumped into one friend who was not supposed to be coming along at all. But luckily, with her mom's help, she was dragged into coming with us. Tres Bien! My twin came along for the trip after all. So, the day began from there. After they settled their business there, we went to paseo arcenas to buy some goodies for the trip and skedaddled for the road trip. There were just a few of us since most of our pals couldn't come along due to some personal matters and well some just don't seem to have their presence felt these days. There appearance seems to be at a very high cost now a days. Anyway, we had about a two hour trip going to simala to pray for their coming NLE and other personal matters. But first we had a pit stop at Carcar for lunch where we had lechon baboy and 2 litro bottles of pepsi plus ice cream sundae from the all time Filipino fast food chain, Jollibee. We were stuffed to the core from too much intake of junk food and beverage which left us with a full bladder by the time we got to Jollibee that we needed to use the lavatories. Ah, salvation. So with bladders empty and stuffed stomachs, we headed out once more for simala. When we got there, the cameras went hay wire. It was photo shoot after photo shoot and we haven't even prayed yet. Just shows that photo taking was a priority of the trip as well. So they wrote down their prayers and we lit candles and prayed with our own personal intentions in mind. We went to see the image off the blessed virgin and then went down the church to do some exploring and more picture taking. We had a blast there. After simala we had another pit stop at Carar's shoe expo where there was a giant shoe and tons of human sized shoes for everyone. We went from stall to stall to browse and try some shoes on (apparently that's all we did 'cept for 3 of our friends who actually bought sandals). So as they were searching and trying sandals after sandals, some of us sat at the benches and tried to cool down since it was very warm and humid that it makes you sweat like a pig there. So we just chatted all the sweat away and entertained ourselves with trifle chitchats to pass the time while they scavenge for the perfect sandals. After which we had another photo shoot at the giant shoe. Pure awesomeness! And so after the photo shoot with the shoe, we headed back for the city. But apparently we made another detour once more. We went to see the Don Bosco retreat house since it is where they will be staying for their in-house this coming Nov. 12 except for my twin that is, since she will be staying at Good Shephered for her in-house. The place was fantabulous! I wish I had stayed there when I had my in-house, but regrets aside, I still enjoyed my stay at Good Sheepy, even though I had a sudden onset of hoome sickness and went into depression for a week there. But anyway, the view there is great. Some of us took more pictures there once more, while I sat next to my gloomy and frustrated twin after we went exploring the rooms and corridors. And so the day went on and the sun was setting, so we hit the road once more for another site that was not on the plan at all but was based on pure impulse of the moment. This time we headed for SRP to take more pictures and just ingest the beautful scenery for the setting sun. But sadly we missed the sunset, but there was an even more amazing scenery that we just witnessed tonight. It was the rising of the moon. It was magnificent! It simply was breath taking. I was drawn to the beauty of the moon and felt that I have witnessed one of natures wonders. It was the very first time ever that I saw the moon rise, in fact that was the first for all of us. It was totally spectacular. If only we had the right equipment to capture that very moment, it would be precious. But even though we didn't have the right equipment, the scene itself was as precious as anything captured on film. And that was the perfect ending to our lovely and awesome road trip.