Let's start from the beginning. I was late, coming in to the office, for 31 minutes, coz I forgot to set the alarm the night before, silly me. And then after work, we all went to Jen's place so we could rest for a bit before we left. The plan was for us to leave at 1AM so we could get to pangasinan just after sunrise, or that was the plan.
All went well actually, until we got to Dau and the exit of NLEX. The van stalled.
*sniffles*
And smoke came billowing out of the engine.
Yeah well, so we put in water, waited for the smoke to go away and the engine to at least cool down a bit, coz we were all thinking the engine just got overheated.
Hah!
We were in Dau for roughly 13 hours!!
Long story short, we were stranded and only in the afternoon did we finally decide to just ditch the van and continue on by bus to pangasinan. We did have directions anyway on how to get to the resort, so that wasn't such a big deal. The big deal was the budget. Argh!
So, we got to the resort at around 9PM -- and man, was it quiet there, unlike here in Manila when the night is just coming alive by that time. Needless to say, we were exhausted so straight to bed we went and sleep, blessed sleep.
But what a sunrise... something that one just can't see in Manila very often, if at all, at that.
Breakfast before heading off to the islands...
Then, boat ride!!
We landed (naks!) on three islands so we could "frolick" around. First stop was Governor's island. I still have to read up on the hundred islands, history et al, but it was here that they went up to the top and according to the boatman, you could see the entire hundred islands from up there. I didn't go up, coz it was a hundred steps up and I didn't want to fall down. The steps were kinda small and narrow and I just didn't want to risk it. So, Jen and Gen and I went to the Pinoy Big Brother house in the island ^__^;;
Before you ask, no I don't watch the show and I have no plans to. I do know that Sam Milby came from that show.
Next came some sort of cave-like through and through passage through the island.
Am I going crazy with the pictures or what?
Then we went to the island beyond Quezon island -- where prices are astronomical! -- and we spent what time we had there, swimming (for those who could), treading water, sitting on the white sand and talking, and just having fun.
As most things in this world are wont to do, we had to end our fun and leave. But as always, there is the promise of the next time we go out of town, as a team.
Wonder where we'll end up next...
Hopefully, somewhere really nice and peaceful and quiet and serene ^__^
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