Jun 30, 2024

Today was the day I was gonna go to Enchanted Kingdom! I was so surprised because I totally forgot, but I'm glad I'm actually going to go today. The commute will be rough, or at least that's what I originally thought. Realistically, my day started with me sleeping for more than 10 hours because I've been so sleep-deprived for the past few days. I woke up early, though, at around 8 a.m., and got ready. I was still interested in Dead By Daylight content so I watched a lot of that. In the morning, my sister and I ordered take-out from McDonald's while I watched a few DBD videos in the background. I thought that it would take a while, maybe an hour or so, but it surprisingly arrived in less than 20 minutes, to the shock of both of us. After that, I had breakfast while watching more Dead By Daylight content. It actually took a while because our plan for today was this: - 8:00-9:00 Prep time - 9:00-10:00 Commute to One Ayala - 10:00-11:00 Bus ride to Laguna - 11:00-11:20 Commute and arrival at Enchanted Kingdom - 11:20-6:00 Time at Enchanted Kingdom - 6:00-8:00 Commute from EK to our house Well, that didn't really pan out, because it was around 9:20 and I was only just taking a bath and getting dressed. Thankfully, we were able to book a car quickly and it didn't really take long for them to arrive either. They actually arrived very early and I was still getting dressed by the time it arrived. But I quickly got everything I needed and went on my way. The driver took a surprisingly weird route to BGC and then Ayala as opposed to taking the SLEX to arrive at Ayala. I reckon that our route was the best route to Makati and I was just surprised by the route since I've never taken this route before while commuting. I was just playing music in the background and listening to Le Sserrafim's "Flash Forward" but we eventually arrived in One Ayala before the ETA. It was around 11:07 at this time, and we were still unsure of how the bus commute would turn out. My sister and I have been on buses to Laguna/Tagaytay before and it took hours. But I was glad that didn't turn out to be the case. We got on a bus to Balibago in Laguna, and the bus took the Skyway. I was so surprised because this seemed like a quick and easy ride. We were also surprised that the bus conductor used an e-payment terminal to take money, which seemed so unlikely because this was the first time I'd seen NFC payments on a bus before. But thankfully we were able to pay for our ride with cash and it cost us around 102 each, or something. It was kind of cheap, to be fair, for a ride to Laguna using the skyway. We just breezed through the roads going to Laguna and I played a podcast episode of This American Life. We eventually got to Laguna and we had to withdraw some money. I bought that big 64oz Aquaflask bottle I've been wanting to have. We then booked a tricycle going to Enchanted Kingdom and easily got inside because we already had our (free) tickets ordered online—a self-chosen gift from my company for spending 5 years with them. My sister was really excited when she got in and wanted to take a lot of pictures. She was so excited because it has been around 2 decades since she last visited Enchanted Kingdom. She was so happy and we took a few photos. Then we walked past some parts of the park and went on to ride the Jungle Log Jam. It had no lines and no people there, thankfully, and we easily got a ride. When the ride reached its peak, I noticed that the subdivision around EK was more developed than when I last visited in 2020. We were then dropped from a height by the ride and we had fun on the ride. I then took a pic of my sister and told her that it was the same spot where Angela and I took a photo 4 years ago. After that, we went to the Space Shuttle which scared me because it's been a long time since I've last been on it, but it scared my sister more. She was really eager before this but afterward, she seemed a bit shaken. We both said that we were getting older and we could feel our ages, even though we were both only in our 20s. We then continued to ride a few more rides after that, both of us enjoying the day. In the end, we ended up going on the rides in this order: - Log Jam - Space Shuttle - Ferris Wheel - Anchor's Away - Rialto - Rio Grande Rapids - Disco Magic We actually ended early at around 3:40 p.m. or so, and we had eaten some churros before getting on a bus back to Metro Manila. The ride was fairly quick, the bus we got on took the SLEX and after an hour and a half or so we were back at One Ayala. Since we were both really hungry and we didn't eat a lot the whole day, we decided to have dinner at Glorietta and ordered food from the Homer Easy Middle Eastern restaurant at the food court. We booked a ride home after that and we easily got home, I even had some spare time to play Sky with my friends and we collected a few candles from the grandma event and we went through Eden altogether.