I do believe in magic.: Part 2: camiguin-CAGAYAN DE ORO-bukidnon

After our short visit at Camiguin, we had to endure again that 4-hour byahe back to CDO. Here's how we always are when brought together, within 2 feet of each other. You might want to keep that volume of yours down. :D

Merry Christmas from all of us! I know what you're thinking. Pang-station ID, right? As in LRT Balintawak STATION ID! Very palengke lang. Bili kayo, kamatis, talong. Okra, sibuyas ochenta per kilo. Isda, isda sariwa! :D

At around 12:30, we were at Mindy's restaurant for an eat-all-you-can lunch. Afterwards, we checked in at New Dawn Pensionne. Php 1,080 per Superior Room, good for 3 pax na. Spacious rooms and clean toilets, strongly recommended for budget travellers. :)

Eto na ang pinaka-rurok of our trip - White Water Rafting! The guys from Kagay picked us up at New Dawn. It was a more or less 45-minute jeepney ride to the starting point of rafting. Along the way, the guys also had to load the boats we were going to use. The water looked murky, medyo nag-uulan kasi that morning.

We had several instructions before we braved the river, only we didn't get much of them because this was what we were doing while Kuya Aries of Kagay was talking.

I guess what most of us only picked up from all the instructions given were: High Five (rafters raise their paddles for a "toast" after getting past a rapid successfully, or in our case, whenever and wherever we feel like doing it :D); Forward paddle & Back paddle; If in case, we fall from the boat, to remember which is the river right & river left; and the most important thing: Don't panic! (which we forgot about even before we got to the first rapid haha)

Life jackets - check!

Head gears - check!

Paddles - keri na!

Ready now! High five tayo kahit wala pang ganap!

As we were being given final reminders before we all rode the boat:

Kagay: Guys, don't let go of the T-grip, okay?

Allen: Ano 'yung T-grip?

Patay kang bata ka.

Then the rafting began!

Ate Matet, one of the guides assigned to our group is bongga! If you guys have watched that Sam Milby-KC Concepcion movie, Forever and A Day, siya ang double ni KC in that scene where she fell to the river dahil sa kagagawan ng character ni Sam Milby. PS, mamamatay si KC sa movie. Pero not because of rafting ha!

All of the 14 rapids have names which your lola can no longer recall. I don't know how to tell you how exhilarating, overpowering, exciting, energizing, thrilling, titillating, intensifying (running out of adjectives now!) that adventure was. I'll let these photos do the talking. :)