The last time I was in the city of pines, I was 15, and with my mom and my cousins. Baguio still had no SM, Marcos head was still okay, and Kennedy Road was still operational. The stopovers were still in Mabalacat. And of course, the lion's head was still visible.
12 years after, Baguio has now a SM in the middle of the city, and I was with friends. Yep, friends I barely even knew. It was sort of an unplanned /planned trip, needless to say, we went prepared, but not so.
We left after shift Saturday. We were supposed to be staying in the house of one of my officemates, but she wasn't able to go. So, all of three of us headed to Cubao to take the 11:30 am bus to Baguio. We arrived there two hours early, tried to kill time while eating at Chowking. Alas when it was time to go, I was feeling hesistant and a bit excited, after all, it is still Baguio!
The bus ride to Baguio was long. I kept on thinking if it was right to go. Hubby and me were still not speaking to each other, and I knew I needed the time out. The trip proved to be otherwise, and instead of feeling bored, I was never that at all.
We arrived at around 6pm,with no room or hotel to stay at. Carrying our bags across the town proper,we were searching in vain for Legarda st. This is the street where, they say, the affordable transient homes are located. Apparently, we ended up staying in a hotel beside Total Gas Station. It was the Holiday Park Hotel. It was new and nice and comfy and homey. Although,we ended paying more, we liked the place. Once we have checked in, Khryssie and me fell asleep immediately. Having no sleep for over than 24 hours was hell for me. I woke up to Louie's voice asking if we wanted to eat at Volante (or something else, I was too sleepy to even understand what he was saying), and in my mind, his voice was just fading. I found myself off to dreamland and waking up at around 1:30 am. I was looking for Louie, when I realized that he told me that he was going out to meet some friends.
I took a bath (the water was freezing), and it just woke me up. I woke up Khryssie and told her that I was hungry and she was starting to get dressed when Louie arrived drunk. Even in his drunken state, he still managed to go out with us. The three of us had our late dinner /early beakfast at Pizza Volante. It was a small,kinda like Italian resto along Session Road ( I guess), in front of the stairs to the Baguio Cathedral. After that, we kinda dared each other and went on "ghost hunting" at around 3am. We hailed a cab going to the Diplomat Hotel ruins (which was scary)... and I swear, we were just at the gates, but the area was different, and you instantly feel that you are not alone. We were not allowed to come in since it was just dawn, and after hearing that, Louie left me and ran off to the cab, where the manong driver and Khryssie was left. Next stop, we went to Loakan Road, and that was just it. I just lost whatever cool I had left, and I just begged them to just turn around and go back to the city proper. (I'm not going to elaborate on this... but yes, I saw something in white)
After that ghost hunting session, we wanted to go to Nevada square,but apparently.Louie doesnt want us to go there. I don't know why. :( We ended up going back to the hotel to try to get some sleep, but I guess Khryssie and I weren't too sleepy. We decided to leave Louie in the hotel, while he tried to get some sleep,and we went off for our Ukay - ukay challenge.We first went to Burnham park, then later on walked along Session road to look for the Ukay - ukay shops. Apparently,we weren'table to find any shops. I just dont know what happened to all the shops. They were all lost! So we just decided to go to Mines View Park. We had our breakfast, took our turns in the souvenir shops in the area, then waited in vain for Louie (who just said he was going to be in an hour... but swear, it was over an hour)..He had breakfast in hell. Bwahahaha.... then just decided to go back to the town proper - to Victory Liner specifically to buy our tickets home. We got the 7 :40pm, bus ride home which gave us around 7 hours to roam the city.
Yes, you guessed out. After trying to get some evasive sleep, we checked out at 12 nn, then started to tour the town on foot. Yes. On foot (but this time, we left our bags in the hotel). We were hopeless trying to do something worth remembering. After all, we had 7 hours left. Whatever. We went to SM Baguio which was more or like SM Manila (minus the aircon), then we went to Burnham Park again to watch the people ride the boats. We were there for like two hours. Khryss and I were supposed to go boating and have a tatoo.... I just dont know whatever happened to that plan. :)
Well, for whatever the insane reason is.... One thing is for sure. We are going back.Hopefully when we do, we got everything firgured out.... para hindi naman maulit iong maglakad kame sa buong Baguio ng dala ang gamit looking for a place to sleep.... Les Miserables ito! Bwahahaha.... at lahat ng ito ay dahil kay... Louie.... peace dude! hahahahaha
I would want to go back. Definitely. I will.
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