Trip Home and To Baguio city

This is the continuation of my previous blog titled "Breaking up is difficult to digest".

It was about three and a half hour later when i reach my hometown. It was a long slow ride on the bus. I can't remember how many times I fall asleep while sitting in a not so comfortable place. The ride is bumpy at some point, so it is impossible to get a good sleep in that ride home.

A relative came to pick me up at the bus station in my town, then another 20 minutes journey to where I live. I live in a modest place , quite, away from the buzzling town and absolutely different from where the country I'm working. I love city life but once in a while i love the quite and peaceful place like my place where my family lives.

Everything looks the same since the last time i went home. There is that familiar farm, familiar faces of my neighbours, The only changes that i noticed is the newly born baby in my neighbour.
Kids are bigger now, olds folk had more wrinkles than before. Well, it's only a year since I went home so not so much has change really.

I sent a short message to Ernie telling him that i arrived home safely and he responded with "thank goodness for that ,enjoy your stay with your family, i miss you already".

My house looks the same, furnitures still sitting from where it was. I only thought that it needs a bit of cleaning, but honestly i do not have to do that cos I will be leaving the next day to Baguio City to visit my relatives. I was only given 10 days holiday and I do not have any idea how I am going to do all the things that i need to do in just 10 days.

After putting my bag down and chatted a bit about hows everybody, had a quick lunch and chatted more, i went down to town to buy a new sofa. Yes for goodness sake my house needs a new sofa. I know how crazy it is to buy a sofa 4 hours after i reach home. It is uncomfortable sitting in an old worn sofa that we had for years. I ask someone to accompany me to town to buy that sofa and then we went.
I do not have much time to scout for a more decent sofa. Actually i dont have any other choices becuase furniture shop in my town is limited to about 2 to 3 shops so i decided to look at one shop and when i see one that fancies y me i"ll buy it. So that is exactly what I did. I settled with a blue print sofa to match our house curtain. The lady ask me if I prefer the more brighter colour like orange and red but i said no thanks I do not like bold colours. I like blue because it feels cool in the eyes.

I bought an extra bed cushion too in case some relatives want to come over and stay for the night. True enough that night there was about 5 teenage relatives came to stay because they are the one who will come with me to Baguio the next day. I've been planning to bring my teenage nephews to Baguio, you know its one of those feild trips that they do with their friends but this time I want to enjoy my holiday with them. In my previous holiday's I always opted to stay home and do house renovation, i am not a carpenter but I have this passion of doing something in the house whenever im home like painting the windows or do the garden. I always do general cleaning whenever i'm home i have a habit of discarding old stuffs like chipped plates, old clothes etc.

We got up early in the morning to catch a 4 hour ride to Baguio. I woke the boys up , 4 of them to get ready I thought they are not gonna wake up in time but I guess they are too excited like me to go to Baguio. We managed to board the bus at 5 am, it was a very smooth ride. We stopped couple of times at a bus terminal for the people who want to go to a washroom or buy snack. At 8-30 in the morning we reached baguio city. I like the climate in Baguio not cold but refreshing totally different from where i live.
A relative came to pick us up at the bus terminal , then she brought us in a nearby jollibee for a breakfast. Gosh my day won't complete without a coffee, and that exactly what i needed.
We had a good chat with my relatives a couple of old folks. They brought along a son to drive another car in case one car is not enought to accomodate all of us. Couple of my cousin came to join us too in Bagiuo but took a different bus. Right after breakfast we went straight to do a sightseeing. There are many nice tourist spots in Bagiuo, honestly I never see that place for a long time. I was still a little kid when I saw it and now I begin to understand why people from all over Philippines wanted to see it.
Climate is ok, views are amazing, people are friendly just a perfect place to spend time for the next 2 days. We are lucky enough to be driven around the whole day with my relatives . We visited many places, they show us the whole Baguio city and even part of Benguet. We have relatives too who lives in Benguet but its too far for us to travel in a very short period of time.
We checked in at our hotel at 8 pm right after our dinner. After a long day of sightseeing and walking all of us are too tired to even climb the stairs to our hotel room. Everybody enjoyed the trip. This is the first time that I brought my nephews together for a trip. They are so thankful for the opportunity all expence paid courtesy of me of course.

We have toured the city one more time the next day, bought few souveneirs along the way. Eat at jollibee one again, the boys love the food at jolibee errr not me. I wanted a proper food.
We catch the bus at 6 pm and we have a slow but smooth ride home. Every body was tired but happy for the experience. We planned to go back there again on my next holiday....well maybe next year.....I sent Ernie a message telling him we are on our way home, he responded with " good to hear you enjoyed your trip there take care."