Night. We went out with my Tita Elvie and Lizeth, (paternal tita and cousin) to have a ceebration in advance. Tita’s birthday is today, Feb 4 (yey! happy birthday Tita Elvie!!!), and mine is two days after hers. Since the first celebrator had nothing in her mind as to where to eat, we just strolled in Trinoma around 7:30 pm while looking out for some restaurants. But after few rounds of walk and lots of declarative sentences of “San kakain?” were thrown, we were still undecided. We went for Teriyaki Boy just so to get over and done with the strolling and move on to eeeeeating! It was Tita Elvie’s treat, thanks! Or was it Tita Lyn’s? (Papa and Tita Elvie’s older sister who is based in America.) Haha, sponsored celebration!

After dinner, it was time for the next celebration. Mine! We went straight to our family’s favorite bar in Mother Ignacia, QC and spent two hours listening to live bands’ music with beers and food. Hah, of course it was my treat! Only, it was sponsored too—by Papa! Hahahaha! Well, you got it, I’m having fund depletion. *sob* Anyway, we got home earlier than our usual family gimmicks because we had another plan for Sunday.

Sunday

By 6am, I was already up though we had planned to leave the house at 10am. I planned to bathe Potpot (my baby brother in a form of a shih tzu) because I thought he would come with us, but our minds changed for some non-debatable reasons. Our destination was Auntie’s house in Bataan. Being the only sibling that Mama's got (after their older brother and sister died eons ago), we actually frequent Bataan and actually made it our second home despite the 2-3 hours of travel. Papa is the most professional driver I've ever known, so he never minds putting his hands around the steering wheel and keeping his eyes on the road for hours. But this trip is different because...

Mama was the driver in the morning, while Papa was THE ultimate passenger.

Mama doesn't like driving at night so Kuya was the reliever on our way home,

while the three of us were his backseat drivers.

Trip is different because Papa had always been the driver on long trips like this. The three of them all know how to drive, but Mama and Kuya had never driven far distances such as to Bataan. Mama used to drive her Toyota Corolla within Metro Manila only and in Los Banos, once, when she picked me up in school. Well Kuya, he was borrowing Mama’s car, but never drove farther than the limits of Quezon City. When the Corolla was sold 3 years ago, the two never drove the other (Ino, Papa’s Toyota Innova) because of its size. Now that Papa got Karen (Kia Carens) for Mama late last year, the two suspended drivers have been reviving their skills and wanted to discover NLEX from the driver's seat view!

By the way, me, I don't drive. I just like enjoying my sit and the sceneries. I'm already happy taking pictures along the trip, just like ones shown above and this NLEX sunset.

Well, we were safe and sound when we arrived home (thank You for the guidance); no blood pressure rocketed and no abrupt palpitation happened. They were all great drivers and I was one lucky passenger. :)

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