My Escape Route: Olongapo

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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Quick Getaway

About last weekend.

A post shared by Aivrin Villamayor (@aeivryn) on Dec 22, 2017 at 8:57pm PST

It's not really a getaway but it was planned months ago since a friend in college was about to get married.

It was a busy month (geez for all the post I'm doing busy is one of my always reason) lol

To be honest, even I'm already sure of going, I was about to back out last minute and I'm happy that I didn't back out.

If I was about to somewhere, I always tell myself that I shouldn't regret that decision most especially if it was full of fun. So much debate on my head whether to push this through or not but one thing is that, I wasn't able to see the people on the picture for 6-7 years!

I was nervous at first since I haven't seen them since 2010/2011 and it will be my first trip without my dude! how am I able to survive that's one of my question but I did and I really enjoyed that weekend.

Personally, it was a challenge since I was about to attend a wedding and how on earth to pack light when you're attending such event? but I did pack everything on my backpack with a blower and a hair iron in it! yay! It was a success and I'm so proud with that.

It was also an adventure most especially looking for place to rent at 5am. Olongapo is a familiar place since I've been there before and going back for a quick weekend with friends is an unforgettable one. Hopefully, I will be able to see them again soon not after years. :)

Congrats Faith and Fitz!

thank you to the friendly staff of http://www.thepalmtreeresort.com

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Night life in Gapo

Here is a post dedicated to the night life that we had in Olongapo last week (May 30 - June 1, 2012).

We leave Angono at 5:30 in the morning and leave Cubao at 6:30am, arrived in Olongapo by 10am. We rode a yellow jeepney and a brown jeepney then did a hundred steps to get in Maricel's house. We ate lunch then sleep on the floor (where we slept for 2 nights and TV in front of us). We woke up by 5pm and we went to SM small aka SM Olongapo and walked to Harbor Point aka the new Ayala Mall in Subic (just opened last March or April or May). We are excited when we saw there is Bon Chon but when we asked the guard where is it located ... Fail! It's not yet open. HAHA we end up at Starbucks.

Maricel, Jv, Me and Nikka at Starbucks

After Starbucks we walked to ride the yellow jeepney and the brown jeepney and then stairs again (btw, we get used to it) and we watched Shutter.

6 o' clock habit ... watching Phineas and Ferb! :)

That photo above was taken when we got home from the beach and the rest of the pictures was taken on our last night :(

Nikka and big bear :)

Maricel while lining up on KFC for our dinner ...

almost fell down on my lap!

Nikka - the addict on picture . lol

Just waiting for the Starbucks to be closed

walk trip ..

Shadow shot!

Finally! a decent group picture!

this are just the random things on the road on our last night (Jeleebee, Super pink cake, Tiramisu and Jeepney reminders)

We did nothing but eat, sleep ,watch tv and hang out in Olongapo. I really miss our life there but nothing will beats being back on our home town. It was our first time to be together for 3 days and despite the invisibility of a person we did make it happen and no regrets about it. I did embrace my messy hair for 3 days, Nikka realized I do snore when I'm sleeping and most important is that we know we can count on each other no matter what happen and (I'm going nowhere). HAHA

It was really fun and I'm looking forward for Semestral Break where Maricel (hopefully) will visit Angono. :)

Thank you to Maricel and most especially to her Grandma and to her mom (even I don't know her mom personally).

Till our next vacation!

Beach Moments

Last week we had a mini vacation in Olongapo and it was the best vacation with Nikka and Jv. We went to the beach on our second day because we are super tired when we got there the day before. From going down on a hundred stairs (aka Maricel's place) we rode 3 jeepney to get in Subic Beach Resort where the entrance fee is only 30PHP and 400PHP for a table with cover and just perfect for the 5 of us. We already woke up by 7am which is already late than the original plan (Geez, we really did nothing in Olongapo just relax, eat, sleep and watch movies and Phineas and Ferb. hehe) will do another entry about the other stuff that we do in a while.

Beach Moments ..... I miss...