Due to thanks giving holiday in US, we ended up having no work since Thursday. My account with the company am working with follows US holidays unless there's a lot of stuff to work on with.
My friends and I planned on going to Enchanted Kingdom during this holiday for a month and recently we planned of going straight to Tagaytay since one of our workmate suggested that we can stay to their house in Laguna and since Tagaytay is just 25 mins away from their place, he also suggested that we can go their if we want.
Our initial plan was to commute, ride a bus and find an apartelle or hotel to stay overnight then go back to Manila for Divisoria. Then due to suggestions, we rented a van w/o driver so that we can go wherever we wish to go. However, two days before the big day, our friends grand father died so we need to make a new plan and work it out. Pushed through with renting a van and then going to Tagaytay until lunch time and then to Enchanted Kingdom afterwards.
We left around five thirty in the morning from Dau bus terminal. Traveled pass through NLEX then to Sta. Mesa to SLEX going to Tagaytay. We reached Peoples Park around 9am, we bought some stuff for our friends and for ourselves, shirts, key chains and etc. Had our lunch at the Picnic Grove over looking the beautiful scenery of Taal lake. After having our lunch, we went down to the city looking for ATM booths, and one of the biggest challenge that we faced during this trip, we still don't have our salary and it's been 12 noon.
Still not losing hope, we went down to Laguna and look for a mall to spend our time while waiting for our salary. It's pass 2pm when we reached Walter mall so we checked our cards if we already have our money. Sad, but still there's none, so we thought of just roaming around and find a place to stay until 3pm since we still had no place to stay and that's the 2nd challenge that we need to solve.
Can't find the place the stay coz they can only provide two person per room accommodation and it's way too expensive so we keep on looking for a place to stay until one of our friends sister texted us and informed us that our pay has been out, so we went to SM Sta. Rosa which is the nearest mall from where we are at that time, amazing race indeed since we are all excited, we ran through the mall looking for an ATM booth. Three of us had trouble with their card number so they weren't able to withdraw money, we lend them money in order for us to push through with Enchanted Kingdom.
Quarter to 4pm when we reached Enchanted Kingdom, and the bad news that came to us. They are only open until 7pm and we only had 4 hours left to enjoy and have fun. Still excited and hyper as always, we went on and paid our tickets. There's a lot of people inside and all the rides has long lines with it, but that didn't stop us from enjoying ourselves from riding all the rides that we can ride on to. We enjoyed the rest of the evening seeing the view from the top while riding the Ferris Wheel.
We went on with our trip looking for the best "Buko Pie" shops for our family and friends. Then went back to Manila for a place to stay which took us a long time to find one and we ended up having an 8hrs stay at one motel in Sta. Mesa after roaming around Metro Manila for almost 4hrs.
The next day we went to Greenhills for our shopping spree, should've been to Divisoria but since it's Saturday, we can't just go there and be traffic by shoppers who's doing their Christmas shopping. Last year I was in US and now, I had the best long weekend ever, no money left, yes, but am so happy coz I've experience this fun with friends. Till next year... :)
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