SUN JOURNAL 2 [Baguio Trip]

Greetings from the Phillipines! BrightXeno Online Again! And this time, I've asked the Unity to stay away from these kinds of posts, anyway, this is the SUN JOURNAL, which will chronicle the things I've been doing since summer, now I know what you might be asking
Why did you just copy-paste the intro section?
I'm not much of a...
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APRIL 15, 2017

The beginning of this trip actually started at 1AM, early in the morning. My mom, my auntie and I were going to prepare for a trip to Baguio via Victory Liner, a bus...brand (If you can call it that), we had quick breakfasts and baths, and once we're dressed, we went to the front gate to wait for some transportation to get to the bus station, and let me tell you, simply waiting for a jeep or a tricycle or something to ride to the bus station is a stealth mission, we can't let anybody know we're leaving, my dad was at work at the time ,my older brother was at an overnight trip and us going to Baguio, leaving the house completely empty. By 3:00-ish, we got to the bus terminal, my mom got tickets and we waited, our supposed ride isn't supposed to be until 4:30, but if a trip to Baguio has vacancies, we are free to ride it as chance passengers, which we did. So, I wanted to listen to music for the 7-HOUR TRIP, but my mom said not to, at least until later, there was free (Yet at times- terrible) wi-fi on the bus, So I decided to pass some of the time watching Youtube videos, chatting with the Puyo Nexus and UKSRT Discords and sleep at some times, once we arrived at the bus terminal, we got into a taxi and rode to one of our relatives' house to stay, it was in an alley just off the main road with a downwards staircase leading into another floor, where the room we're staying in is located, just beside the bottom of the stairs, the room was pretty small and white, with a big sofa, a flat-screen T.V. a table and stove, a fridge which I've seen a few people use, a small bathroom, two bedrooms and a toy-box which was for a baby one of my relatives brought along. We rested for a little bit before leaving, we went to a mall to eat some lunch, Jollibee was the section of the mall where we ate. After eating, we went to Burnham park, Where we happened to see lots of people on choppers (Not the flying kind), Go karts, bikes, tricycles that have side-cars on them, all of which were pedal powered. A relative of mine (I Remember his name being Damdam... I think?) and I decided to ride go-karts. I had some fun riding around in my pedal-powered go-kart, I felt like I was in a racing game at some points. After an hour or 2, we went to go on a stroll and found Igorot costumes that we can wear (and take pictures in) for a price, when I Tried on an Igorot warrior costume, I tried to look... (for a lack of a better word) usual, then tried to make myself look cool (I'll upload pictures when I Have them). After taking the pictures (and paying as such). we strolled

A sort of scenic view from a swan boat...
 I was afraid the phone might drop into the water

again, this time, we found swan boats with rowers and pedal boats. We took up a small boat and asked for a rower, but it wouldn't fit (6 people, including me and the rower), so 2 of our relatives backed out, leaving me, my mom, her sister and the boat rower, at one point my mom asked me if I wanted to try rowing the boat, to which I said yes. It was a little hard at first, but I managed to get the hang of it. At another point we saw two guys in a two people powered pedal boat stuck near the pipe that led to a fountain in the center of the lake, our rower tried to give instructions to get them unstuck, only for them to get stuck again. After going about 3 rounds through the lake. we went to take a break, the relatives that gone with us now going home and after that, went to buy some knickknacks for when we went back home and had a little food at McDonalds, after that, we went back to our...room? Apartment? I don't know what to call it, to rest and eventually sleep.

The "View" Part of
"The Mines View"

The next day, after we took a spongebath, we went out to the mines view park to look at the beautiful mountain view (so why they called it the MINES view was beyond me, I guess there was supposed to be some forgotten mine at the tourist site that we never got to see?), and took a few pictures, yeah, this time I have photographic evidence, all straight from my camera. We looked around and entered a gift shop full of Igorot-made stuff (also in the Mines View Park), we bought keyholders and a bonnet, and our auntie bought a few plants before we rode a jeep, which was supposed to bring us to the botanical garden, but we missed our stop and, since it's almost lunch time, eat at jolibee for lunch. After lunch, we rode another jeep and made sure we stopped at the botanical garden this time. Me and my auntie took pictures at the... front gate sign and a few people dressed as Igorots came and spiced our picture up... with a cost... I'd recommend telling us that we were going to pay before joining our picture... Anyway, I managed to take alot of pictures here and stayed here longer than I wanted to (after seeing all the picture opportunities of course).
Such pictures include:

A nipa hut

some of the garden's pathway

A copy of the golden gate brige

A pavillion (I think it was called) to celebrate city sistership between this and a chinese city

an open field with some Igorot statues

And an Igorot statue

...WOW I need to learn how to get those pictures in order, anyway, after looking at all the things we wanted to at the garden, we had to walk all the way to wright park, and after reaching the park, we had to climb up a staircase in order to reach the higher level of the park, which was near The Mansion (Yes, that is what it is called), 

Like a staircase of
a japanese shrine

and it's a GIANT one, we still had some energy... after taking rests at the flat sections of the stair case and eventually reached the top, we walked through a path with a lake in the middle, separating the two paths, and once we reached the entrance, we saw the mansion, and fancy it was, We only took a few pictures before going back to our... apartment to get our stuff and went to the bus terminal, unfortunately, The three of us were spaced VERY far away but I didn't run into any trouble, after another 8 hour trip, We rested for a bit before going to sleep, the sights of Baguio that day were quite Amazing.

The Mansion in Question.