Driving on Friendship Highway.

"Do you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight?".

Today was figuratively and literally one of the longest days of my life. Today, February 11, 2011, I Hazel Noe Edward and Thea went to the 16th Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival for the first time together. I and Thea slept over Hazel's the night before. We watched Tangled and realized it was already past one when it finished, when we planned to wake up at 2:30. We got ready for bed and tried to sleep, when we finally settled in, my phone started ringing, it was already 2:30. Turns out Noe and Edward were still in Antipolo, so we had extra time to cook and prepare the things we needed for the trip. They arrive at around quarter to four. We ate our breakfast, got a little distracted with all the stories we wanted to share which is why we left at around quarter to five already. We tried our best to reach Clark by sunrise, and because God was so nice to us, we were able to get there on time, a few minutes before the balloons took flight.

It was a really pretty scene, the sunrise plus the hot air balloons taking flight. I just stood there, choosing to be unaware of everything else, and just concentrated on the beauty of it all. After every balloon took flight, that was the only time I talked to the other four again.

Since it only took about 30 minutes of the day's time for the balloons to take flight, we had so much time to spare till the sunset flight. We decided to go to Subic to pass time. We did so much driving and eating and talking but we found that it was only 12 noon and there was still so much time to spare. We drove back to Pampanga and reached there at one, and like you guessed we still had about 4 hours to spare. We stayed in the car and talked about all the possible things we could talk about and played pusoy dos and to our relief found that it was already a few minutes till four o clock. When we decided to go in the field again, it started to rain. We left it up to the great and wise coin (we tossed coin) and followed its choice for us to leave the field already. While on the road, it rained so hard and we couldn't see so we pulled over at a nearby Shell Gas Station to wait for the rain to weaken. After a few serendipity encounters and a few songs that passed, we continued on the drive. I fell asleep after a few minutes of the drive and woke up to Hazel asking us if we could share for toll fee.

Every other detail not included is either unimportant or momentarily forgotten, but I will surely update this blog.

Today was a good day, great even! But i'm a bit zombiefied and should go to sleep now. so Tahtah for now!

A thousand miles by vanessa carlton by tman1220