Lingaw ... masuya lang ang masuya XP

Lingaw.  That's what I can describe the Tinago outing today.  Sure there were only nine of us who went (me, Kara, Jade, Dahl, Maan who wore a bikini, Sheryl Lyn, Vinn aka our driver, Ian, Martin).  We don't care because we had FUN.  Nine was just a good number of people that could fit in the van that Vinn brought.  It's a good thing that I decided to go to Tinago with them.  I was feeling really lazy the day before.  Too bad this blog post is my only documentation of the event.  But I'll probably steal pictures from Kara, Shai and Martin XD

The day started out slow.  I was the first to arrive at the meeting place even though I was moving more slowly than usual while I was in my house.  Jade and Kara followed shortly.  We waited 2-3 hours for the other people to arrive (*ehem*Ian*ehem*Shai*ehem*).  So we bought lechon manok, eating utensils, and drinks.  When we were complete, we headed to Tinago (but we had to stop by to buy 2 additional lechon manok, rice/puso, and to pick Dahl and Ma-an at Tominobo).

The fun started at Tinago.  After descending ~500 steps (according to wikipedia), we reached Tinago Falls.  Since it was lunch time when we arrived (see how late we were?  the call time was 8 AM), we ate the food we bought.  After that, we went to the cold waters of the lagoon.  We swam a little before we decided to ride the bamboo raft to reach the falls (and we rode it a few more times after that ;P).  We reached the falls and felt the heavy (and a bit painful) patter of the water.  We swam again.  Went back to the falls area to go through it and sit under the falls.  We had pictures taken (special mention to the vain people: Ian, Shai, Martin).  We formed a circle.  Some of us (including me) learned how to dive a little.  We swam again.  We finished off the leftover food.  We went to the falls area.  Basically, that's what we did when we were there.  We acted like we were the ones who were entirely new to Tinago Falls (even if we are pure-bred Iliganons).  It was really fun.  The only ugly part was when we had to ascend the ~500 steps so that we could go home.  I'd love to be there and do these things with my friends all over again (except for the stairs part o_O).

The last time I went to Tinago Falls was way back in grade school.  I just swam in the lagoon with my cousins.  It was still fun.  But the fun today is definitely better.

Happenings like this make me sad of the fact that I have to return to Manila.