#alitagtag

Our family had a little reunion in the coast of Batangas. It came out that we have a relative in the province and they invited us into their home to have some heartfelt journey in the lake of Taal, Volcano.

The whole family traveled together; I even invited Merald to meet my titas and titos. He was very welcomed even though he was shy and quiet the whole time. Couldn't blame him, it's his personality and comfort. We met a lot of new people, I couldn't grasp the structure of the family tree, so I would call these girls my cousin in the nth degree. They were very nice, welcoming, charming, and quite sociable in a comfortable way.

We ate breakfast and cooked some of our baon before we start to walk across the so called "hike" to arrive at the beach -- our entire purpose in the journey.

At first, we walked comfortably in the streets not knowing what will fall beyond us in the end of the road. I was shocked and terrified with the path's condition! Narrow, muddy, slippery, and a tree-clad! A ravine is in front of us and it's the only way we could go down to the breathtaking sparkling water of Taal.

Going down the ravine was dangerous and slippery--I slipped. But going up the ravine was more tiring! It felt like my heart was in a race of beats. I could hardly breathe and my legs were trembling.

Nevertheless, aside from that tiring path, the beach was indeed a kiss of angel. Not the way I expected it to be. But it was like a private beach just for us.

I will not deny I was little ashamed because I thought Merald wouldn't enjoy the travel. But he said he did have fun. It might be not the way we thought it would be. But the experience was one of a kind for me.

It was a little messy, yet fun! I even saw a monkey-- well, not clearly. Thanks to my stupid blurry eyes. But I had so much fun being able to hang out with my relatives and having a time with Merald. Everything seems going well this day, I forgot I had such problems in my real life.

I hope this outing would happen again! I would like to meet my nth degree cousins again >< they are very pretty and nice!