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When Nikki, Drei and I got together at Starbucks last week, we made plans for a Tagaytay road trip this week. But Nikki had to bail out at the last minute because of work concerns, but Drei managed to get Carla to tag along.

This past Tuesday was the day. Drei was supposed to pick me up at around 10 in the morning, but called early in the morning to say that he wants to leave earlier, because he realized that his car was included in the day's color coding. I was still doing my morning chores, so he decided to pick Carla up first. While I was waiting for them to pick me up next, they ended up doing the first random thing of the day, which was visiting their former alma mater, Southville International School, hahaha.

All three of us were kind of low on money (even Drei after he paid for a full tank of gas) so we brought a bit of baon for the trip. Carla raided her kitchen while I raided our store. My mom even added a huge handful of mint candies while I was already walking to Drei's car. No sooner than we had closed all the car doors, all 3 of us started shouting "ROADTRIIIP!"

And we were off. We were along Alabang-Zapote road when Drei help up his camera phone and Carla and I instinctively smiled and posed for a photo. Drei's reply was, "It's a video, dammit!" AHAHAHA! Super funny.

So we started recording the most random things we could think of...
- searching for this store with a funny name along the road that we saw once before... a store named "Petcock."
- road trip "fails" such as instant traffic.
- Carla saying "under the underpass."
- shouting "ROADTRIP!" over and over again.
- Southside reunites! Complete with flashing the Southside "S" sign (fail for Drei, haha).
- "Chota" (Toyota) and "Hunda."
- Drei saying that Acacia avenue was Madrigal avenue.
- the "secure security".
- Drei opening his window and saying hello to everyone, making a random guy who was passing by wave at him in reply. He did this twice.
- palms in the Philip-PINES
- the "purple hill."
- the crazy traffic that we might meet on the way back home.

After a little over 15 minutes of recording, we stopped the video, wondering if we could upload a video on Facebook that's over 15 minutes long, hahaha. (The limit on Facebook is 20 minutes, I think.) But that didn't stop us from all the randomness. Carla still kept snapping photos along the way to document our way to Tagaytay. Group photos. Snapshots of the road. New properties. "The wall that looks like a building." Ahehehe.

Then we decided to settle in People's Park in the Sky. All the way up. After parking the car at the bottom of the place and taking our snacks with us, we decided to walk all the way up instead of paying fare to ride a jeep even though it was drizzling. At least we have Drei's huge umbrella with us. "Penitensya." Hahaha. Well, not really. It wasn't really a long trek up to People's Park anyway. And we got a good look of the gorgeous view below while we were walking. Photo ops galore when we reached the top, then we checked out the tiangge place before climbing another set of steps. Awesome view from that spot, even though we were sort of hanging out at the top of a cliff, haha. After a little more photo ops, we decided to sit down at the little ampitheater near the tiangge place to have a snack, as they were charging P100 just for those little gazebos.

Still not content with the chips, crackers and water we had, we set off back down again to head for Mushroomburger for lunch. Haha, another short video was created on the trek back down, complete with quips like "just check the photos" and "this is the talking part of this post."

Hooray for Mushroomburger! Perfect for cheap thrills, yet still very filling. Even though each burger was only P35, Carla and I paid for Drei's burger, as he already paid for the full tank of gas, anyway, haha. We were all smiles as we ate and savored every bite of those darn Mushroomburgers. Yuuuummmm... It's only been 2 days, and I miss those burgers again already.

Time to head back home, and Drei took a different route which he claimed was a shortcut. It took us several minutes to realize that the long stretch of road wasn't a shortcut. "Hindi na ito road eh, lupa na lang!" We were lost, hahaha! We had to turn back and find the way back to Manila. A few minutes during the trip back though, it was raining really hard, then it stopped almost as quickly as it came. Parang panaginip lang yung ulan, haha.

By the time we reached Alabang, it was still pretty early, so we headed to ATC to chill. Basically we just hung out at Starbucks first, then just walked around before we headed back to the car to pig out on the 2 bags of popcorn we brought that we haven't consumed yet before heading home. Yes, we're all that broke, haha.

Goes to show that you don't have to spend much in Tagaytay, as long as your car already has a full tank of gas, hahaha. It was an awesome random day with my Southside friends, and we sure hope we get the rest to join us again next time.

Photos (grabbed from Drei) can be found here.