30 December 2011

The End of the Year Road-trip

Because of a mishap in the office, my team mates during that night and I got a free day the next day. Since it was truly rare for the six of us to have the same free day, we opted to go on a road-trip to Tagaytay.

Inside the car of our team mate, and without any plans or particular destination, we headed south, armed with our cameras and the desire to make the most out of the time we had then and there.

First stop was dinner. We had a delectable feast at Leslie's, a family restaurant serving Filipino cuisine, complete with a Bahay Kubo ambiance. My favorite was the baked mussels, and of course, the kare-kare.


After savoring the cold breeze and the view of the city below, as seen from the restaurant, we hunted for another place to go to. We ended up at the bar and restaurant on the other side of the street where we just had our dinner. We stayed there until the wee hours of the night. And failing to find a place to sleep for reasonable price and since most of the hostels don't have available rooms anymore, we slept in the car. It was... quite an experience. One that which I'm not particularly excited to try again. Haha.

It was hopeless to get a decent sleep in such a setting, but we had what we could. And when morning came, we had a filling breakfast of goto and arroz caldo. Afterwards, we headed off to the park, roaming around, stopping every once in a while to do some sight-seeing and people-watching.

We had a late lunch at a depot/mall on the way home, and rushed to arive at the office on time because half of us had shift  later that day.

It was tiring, it was not fancy. It was crude, actually. Haha. It was the first time I've had such an experience, and the first adventure with my team mates. It would probably the only time we would have the chance to and it was good that it pushed through.

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