Spending Halloween Vacation

Last 2003, I was in Naga City with my friend's family (Bartolome's). We stayed there for four days. That was, during that time, the farthest south I have ever gone. It was also my first time to see Mayon Volcano up close. I thought it was in deed amazing. Albay is one-hour drive from where we stayed in Naga. But it was only a day trip. Aside from Mayon, we also visited this big church famous during the Peñafrancia feast. I bought a native abaca slippers which I'm still using up to now.

Last 2004, I spent my halloween vacation in Ma. Aurora, Aurora Province. How I love that place! We welcomed All Saint's Day's sunrise by the beach and grabe, how amazing our God is to have blessed our place with such amazing nature. I can still remember, we waited for the fishermen to make daong and help them pull their nets full of fishes! And after that we went to this hanging bridge where you can see the undercurrent between the lake and the sea. I wish I could go back there some time again. Maybe when Ate Cash and Kuya Isa take another vacation in the Philippines.

This year, my halloween wasn't that exciting though. I spent it in my hometown (Sta. Maria, Bulacan). But I miss my family and I enjoyed that moment I spent with them yesterday. We had a nice chitchat, updating each other, telling plans and all. And my nephews and nieces are so kukulit! Kids are so nakakatuwa talaga! I love their being innocent yet so intuitive learning new things, how spontaneous and smart they are with what they observe, and you will just laugh with their kiddie jokes. Hay...

I also missed my mom's food kaya I had a nice lunch and dinner with the ginisang cabbage and grilled liempo she cooked for us.

I hope the next time I go home, we'll all be like that, all complete, eating lunch together, making noise with our laughs and shouts. And I hope the next time we will have this get-together, I'm ready to share with them my surprise, if God permits. Now I'm really getting to excited about it. Let's hope and see...