The original plan was to go to Polillo Island. We were invited to be there and were asked that the youth will conduct the Sabbath services. However, the weather wasn't so kind and we were advice not to push through with the activity. It would be a long weekend and we wanted to have a place to go away from the city. I suggested we go to Baguio to which majority agreed. So there were eight of us who left Manila last Friday and went to the City of Pines.
The last time I was in Baguio was December 2005 during a Youth Convention with about a thousand of other young people attending. Never got the chance to go around but still I had good memories of the city and wanted to go back.
We have been listening to the news since it was on the same week that Typhoon Karen hit the nothern provinces of Luzon. I was expecting that the city would still be recovering from the typhoon. But Baguio was clean and quite when we arrived. It was as if nothing happened. The rain and wind was strong days before. We were fortunate that the place was back to its beauty when we arrived on Friday.
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