Nakiki-flashback Friday (Batlag Falls)
It’s hard to believe that more than two years have already passed since this happened. This has been sitting in my drafts since 2011, so what’s harder to believe is that I can procrastinate for 2 years. :p The main reason this was extendedly held up is that Liezel was pregnant when I was writing the (very long, image-heavy) post, and I just had to emphasize that in the story coz it made most part of the trip. But I wanted to respect Liezel’s wish to keep her condition within her circle, hence the 2-year delay. Since the world is already aware of her happy motherhood, I guess it’s now safe to share this (but without the many pictures and long rambling). Would you let a girl in her first trimester walk uphill for hours or stride on slippery, rocky terrain? I wouldn’t. But Liezel told us that she’s pregnant just minutes before we took off, so me and Marvin still went ahead with her without fully digesting the revelation and the dangers. It was when we were holding on to boulders to avoid slipping that the situation sank in: omaygad we’re hiking with a pregnent wyman dis is dum!!! The trek wasn’t really that difficult, but it’s one of the most exhausting (for me), mainly because I was in constant worry about my friend, and partly because I was carrying most of our load (since there were only three of us, and one is pregnant while the other is a pixie princess). Anywaaayyy, we had fun and stuff stuff stuff.
