Second Stop: Isabela
I opened my eyes and the first thing I noticed was a bunch of crowd walking under the black sky. We arrived at Isabela around 900 pm and we had a quick dinner at the nearest food chain, Chowking.
We're given a VIP pass to watch the Bb. Isabela 2009 pageant because Tito Rey is a relative of Isabela's congressman. Talk about big time! After our last sip in our Black Gulamans, we hurried ourselves to the venue to watch the beautiful ladies ramp with their sexy swimsuits and evening gowns.
As we walk along the wet road to head to our VIP seats, a big crowd filled our eyes that roars in front of the beautiful ladies. The show had already started when we arrived, and I must say Isabelinas are really beautiful. It took several hours before the winners of the pageant are concluded because of some disturbances brought by the rain. Some say that there's no competition at all, for we already knew who will emerge winner of the contest.
After we watched the pageant, we hurried to our car to avoid the big crowd and headed to the congressman's house where we will stay for the night. It was 300am when we arrived there, and I was surprised that we will actually spend our night in a hospital ward! The environment doesn't seems to bother me, and after our night grooming, we quickly hit the sack to pay some rest.
Woke up at around 800am and we were asked to prepare ourselves for the breakfast so that we can quickly head to our next destination, that is the congressman's farm or barn. The farm is really cool! We had the chance to pick some eggs in the chicken house(?) that actually consists of 43,000 chickens! That's a huge number of poultry! We really enjoyed picking eggs, because it doesn't only gave us an experience of how this things are worked, we also learned many things about the eggs and their sizes, the chickens and many more.
After the harvesting, we proceeded to the sorting process. We used a "egg sorting machine" to, uhm, sort the eggs according to its size and weight. It's really cool! I never thought that such machine will be used to classify the eggs we bought in the market as small, medium or large.
The air's getting a little hotter. Our stomachs are starting to create awful sounds. O yes, it's already lunch time. We went upstairs to have some eggs, inihaw na tilapia, and I forgot the other viands. Their food tastes really good! I think maybe it's because the eggs were just harvested from the barn, and the tilapia are freshly catched.
I forgot to tell that they also manage a palaisdaan where tilapia and prawns can be found. It's a really good business, but I also thought that it requires a lot of money to start one, and a very good strategy in producing a large number of fish and chickens and good maintenance.
I opened my eyes and the first thing I noticed was a bunch of crowd walking under the black sky. We arrived at Isabela around 900 pm and we had a quick dinner at the nearest food chain, Chowking.
We're given a VIP pass to watch the Bb. Isabela 2009 pageant because Tito Rey is a relative of Isabela's congressman. Talk about big time! After our last sip in our Black Gulamans, we hurried ourselves to the venue to watch the beautiful ladies ramp with their sexy swimsuits and evening gowns.
As we walk along the wet road to head to our VIP seats, a big crowd filled our eyes that roars in front of the beautiful ladies. The show had already started when we arrived, and I must say Isabelinas are really beautiful. It took several hours before the winners of the pageant are concluded because of some disturbances brought by the rain. Some say that there's no competition at all, for we already knew who will emerge winner of the contest.
After we watched the pageant, we hurried to our car to avoid the big crowd and headed to the congressman's house where we will stay for the night. It was 300am when we arrived there, and I was surprised that we will actually spend our night in a hospital ward! The environment doesn't seems to bother me, and after our night grooming, we quickly hit the sack to pay some rest.
Woke up at around 800am and we were asked to prepare ourselves for the breakfast so that we can quickly head to our next destination, that is the congressman's farm or barn. The farm is really cool! We had the chance to pick some eggs in the chicken house(?) that actually consists of 43,000 chickens! That's a huge number of poultry! We really enjoyed picking eggs, because it doesn't only gave us an experience of how this things are worked, we also learned many things about the eggs and their sizes, the chickens and many more.
After the harvesting, we proceeded to the sorting process. We used a "egg sorting machine" to, uhm, sort the eggs according to its size and weight. It's really cool! I never thought that such machine will be used to classify the eggs we bought in the market as small, medium or large.
The air's getting a little hotter. Our stomachs are starting to create awful sounds. O yes, it's already lunch time. We went upstairs to have some eggs, inihaw na tilapia, and I forgot the other viands. Their food tastes really good! I think maybe it's because the eggs were just harvested from the barn, and the tilapia are freshly catched.
I forgot to tell that they also manage a palaisdaan where tilapia and prawns can be found. It's a really good business, but I also thought that it requires a lot of money to start one, and a very good strategy in producing a large number of fish and chickens and good maintenance.
Some photos at the barn.
We decided to head to our next destination, that is Banawe, since it will take us some hours before arriving there and we need to catch up with the sun so that we can see their beautiful Rice Terraces. We hit the road, and unluckily, we had a wrong turn which really consumes our time. Despite of the sunset, we are still on our way to Banawe because Tita Babie suggested that we can extend a day and spend another night at Banawe so we can just see the Rice Terraces the next morning. But as we drove into the dark, muddy road to Banawe, lumps of big landslides are meeting us in every bank of the road. We had this feeling that we are not welcome there, or we should leave because something dangerous might happen or something like that. So we ended up returning and decided to go home. Feeling disappointed, I just joked myself that I'll just look some pictures of it in the internet. Haha! I just accepted that truth that our next destination is to Bulacan. I feel very thankful because we were able to go home safely, and I think we just made the right decision. :)
It's almost time for dinner and we have to look for a restaurant along the way to fill our bellies. We ended up at Mrs. Gaddies, and I must say their foods are really great! They serve it hot, which was perfect for the rainy weather.
After our dinner, we bought some snack at the nearest grocery store, and then we hit the road again. I easily fell asleep because of the cold weather. The clock reads 200 am when I woke up, and I found out that we actually had a stop over in a Shell gas station. I think the branch is at Santa Fe. Tito Mon told us that Tito Rey can't stay awake any longer, thus may affect his driving. So he, together with Tita Babie, decided to have a nap in their car. While we bought a snack at the Select, and had a chat at the back of the pickup.
Kuya Espi, Me and Raliech.
Kuya Philip.
Cris and Ate Manel.
We even play Uno cards at the cottages there at the station. After sometime, Tito Mon told us that Tito Rey's back on track and we have to leave, and so we hop aboard onto our vehicles. I take a nap again to enjoy the cool weather and to pay some sleep debt.
We arrived at Bulacan around 500am and the first thing we did there is to have a breakfast together. While we were eating, we are telling stories to Tita Julie everything about our trip and some other stuffs: the pageant, the punto that we were always saying while we were on our trip, the places we've been and many more. We enjoy telling stuffs to Tita Julie because she's a very cheerful person. After our morning boost of energy, we were asked to grab a box of eggs that we've collected from the barn. Yay! And so after some egg packing, we bid goodbye to them, and say "Thank You" to Tito Rey, Tita Babie, and Tito Mon for a very exciting and wonderful trip to Isabela and Baguio. I hope this would happen again. I hope. I hope. :)
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