I've been in my hometown of Davao for as looooong as I can remember which is approximately 22 years as already :) But nevertheless, I love my hometown. The people are warm and nice, the place is clean and safe, the food is great, and really cheap too. What more could you ask for? But a bouncing, happy-go-lucky girl like me deserves to get out and explore too right? I mean, you can't really discover everything in the internet. C'mon, I mean, you can, but it would all just be inside a big, black, boxy, flat monitor and pictures may say a thousand words, but not quite loud enough you'll hear it echo in your sleep. To make the ramble short, I wanna see the world! or the rest of my country, to begin.
But that simple dream was about to be fulfilled when ms. lucky girl=me found out that our company was going to go on a trip to anywhere in South east Asia, almost all expense paid. Ah! I could finally get inside the airport! finally ride an airplane! Oh, the excitement and thrill me and some of the air flight-deprived colleagues of mine felt. Hong Kong, HK, the great city of lights, here we finally come.
But, what luck~ , my Lolo visited his house in Manila before he went back to the US, and one thing led to another, I was in a plane bound for Manila. Yes, on a plane, how exciting! If it would be bound for HK, it would be more amazing but who cares at least I'm on a plane. Well, the flight was a bit uncomfortable and unstable but at least I got to see clouds. :)
When I got there, my Tita dragged me on going to Enchanted Kingdom, the Philippines' very own smaller, less exciting, less mascot-infested version of Disney Land (which is, in fact, located in HK -_- ) Well, that's what they said before I got there. But when I finally did, lo and behold, an amusement park has never been so magical in my eyes.
Well, the fact is, it's the only amusement park I've ever been into (poor, poor girl, I can hear you saying now). We got the ticket that says Unlimited Rides on it, it looks like an orange band that they tie around your wrist, before they release you to the wild. :)
The first thing we got onto was the EKstreme ride. It's the ride that looks like a very tall tower with 8-10 seats attached around its body. When you ride it, you slowly, (and I mean painfully slow) get carried to the very top of the tower. It's approximately 4 stories of a building, and without notice, they DROP you and within 3 seconds the ride stops. It wasn't really more of a ride, it was more like experiencing your very soul quickly ripped from your body as you dropped and left in the air to float and hover over you forever... I admit it, I think I never got my soul back, and whenever I remember the feeling I felt in that ride, I can hear my soul calling back... brrrrr~ *shivers*
Anyway, we got in on like all of the rides, and I felt like making a horcrux in each of them, leaving a part of my soul in each of it. My Harry Potter should be the Jungle Log Ride. The water drop was so terrifying, I thought I died and got resurrected by the resurrection stone. My legs were literally shaking when I got off. Whew~
And, through my Tita's very powerful convincing powers, the Space Shuttle was never left ignored. I didn't really want to ride a roller coaster that time, when my hands were so clammy, and I think I really was going to have a fit. Ill thoughts were flooding my mind, thanks to Final Destination 3. Anyway, I didn't really know how it happened, but I was sure it took some shoving and pushing and I was on the ride. The only crucial moment, my Tita advised me, was the travel up on the highest rail and the drop, which comes after the "click" sound. I really didn't wanna hear that "click" sound, but I managed not to faint by, well, closing my eyes in the entirety of the travel upwards. I managed to take a peek when we were at the highest point, and now I really regret peeking. The most awaited "click" came, and off we dropped!!! It was soul-ripping, not that I have much soul left, and I was glad I discovered the "shallow breathing" technique while we were dropping. It was really pretty cool. Just take rapid shallow breaths, and you'll survive any drop. With my eyes closed, I felt my body go up and down, left to right, my neck was all over the place, and after what felt like a minute and a half, the ride was over.
I loved the ride, I know my descriptions in the previous paragraph contradicts it, but I loved EK! And as we went home, I actually wanted to go back and experience it all over again. The thrill didn't get me addicted, I'm an adrenaline junkie, not a thrill-slash-suicide-junkie. Just that the excitement was too real, and too fun. It was so much fun I had for the first month of the year, and I think I'm all good for the rest of it. That was why the HK-Disney thing, I DROPPED it. Clicked my thumbs and dropped it. Know why? I know that rides there are scarier. lol!!!
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