tara na, biyahe tayo! (Ilocos trip part 1)

The sun crept out from under the clouds! Well at least for the duration of our Pagudpud-Vigan trip. But boy, it was not called "Pagud"-pud for nothing! We were on the road for 16-straight hours, peeing in between long stretches and napping twenty-forever. In short, naubos na lahat ng kwento ng buhay namin, wala pa din kami sa beach. LOL. But once we got ahold of what Ilocos Norte's shoreline has to offer, every ache ceased to appear. To sum it in one word, WHOA! For evidence:


Beautiful. It didn't rain as the forecasts said. The sun smiled and laughed with us. Originally, 4 lang dapat kami but as fate would have it, naging 7 kami! And Steph's officemates (Cheska, Bri, Niki and John) are UBER-FUN! I swear they're a hoot a minute! (Note: Reimbursible, word for the day haha) Here they are in their sun-kissed glory:


Sayang they have to leave din the next day because of work-matters so the 3 of us, me, Steph and Yani had to finish our trip by ourselves. Pero dahil na rin sa kakulangan sa time and takot sa madidilim na parts to Saud Beach, we just went on to see the infamous Windmills of Bangui. Though man-made, it did not lessen their magnificence. At talaga namang matatakot ka sa sobrang laki nila! (haha, I sounded a bit too eager there for a while)

steph in her aviator-kuno shot

steph, me and yani in our sariling-sikap-shot

me in my "happy camper" signature shot (with my ultra huge troso-like arms)

After that, I let the two pressure me into getting a tattoo (though temp lang naman) at buti na lang nagpa-pressure naman ako. I gots me a star-trail tattoo on the uppermost right-side of my back .


We spent the night rolling in the sand, star-gazing (though maliliit lang naman yung stars) at kwentuhan na naman. That's until a group of 3 (shall I say, "boys"? lol, im sure stephy would get what I'm saying) approached us to "befriend" us daw because they're new sa Pagudpud. Our initial reaction (though sa mind lang):

Me: Bago lang din kami, go bother somebody else.
Stephy: Not interested.
Yani: Matutulog na kami so go get.

So talk, talk, talk, and in the end, Steph had to give them her e-mail address na lang. We escaped to the confines of our room which made us,quoting Yani, "mga anak ng Diyos" because it is the owners' family quarters whenever they came to visit. Oh di ba, bongga? Hihi.

As Anne Curtis said in her commercial, "This is our best summer vacay," pause on the EVER part, we'll just replace it with "TO DATE" since we will be having quite a lot (please cosmic void..). I'm ending the first part of our Northern Sojourn trip here dahil sobrang haba na. hehe. Up next, step into the past in Vigan!