The past week
contained my family observing Lent, my nephew's birthday, my mother's birthday, and my school break all in one. Pasco, me and our friend from the office rode up to San Fernando, La Union with my brother-in-law, thus saving fare money. (That didn't stop us - or at least me - from going back down to Marikina with nearly empty pockets, though.) We went to Asin hot springs near Baguio the next day, the highlight of which was me and my sister screaming like ninnies on a hanging bridge (damn these hanging bridges). All of them - my mother, my brother-in-law, my nephew, my niece, my mother, my office friend - made it to the other side. More than a quarter through it me and my sister turned back and went down to the river under pretense of taking pictures of them all, and they were marching through the bridge like it was nothing. My niece and nephew ran back and forth through it because they are still young and therefore invincible. We stayed at one of the resorts (t