we had this 3 days adventure into the unknown… J, R, J and me had gone to the void and returned with whole new experience, filled with joy and happiness filling those blank space in our hearts. we went to CDO(Cagayan de Oro City - Mindanao) for a life threathening adventure — WHITE WATER RAFTING….
3:00 AM, the four of us were in the Domestic Airport waiting for our plane… ETD was 4:50 AM
1st day… CDO downtown… it was Saturday, we met with some ot our friends from Cebu whom we will be joining with for the White Water Rafting Adventure(WWRA)….we started the day traversing the Ecoville Nature Park… then hopping on their deliscious restaurants… as the sun goes down, we headed to our hotel for a change of clothes then after an hour we hunted down those "tiange"(Ukay-ukay) on their famous Night Cafe/Night Market. well i bought a water shorts for the next day’s adventure of the lifetime.
2nd day… CDO outskirts… it was Sunday, we had our breakfast at McDo… then we headed to our rendezvous point for extraction… we were able to meet our contact person, filled some documents and waited for a little while for other adventurers… tic tac tic tac… and off we go to the outskirts of CDO for our most awaited White Water Rafting event…. we were both excited, happy and nervous at the same time.. most were first timers… our guide had mentioned that it will took us 3 hours to before we can reach the end point… WOW! this is F— nice… then off we go after a few minutes of safety orientation… we were divided into two rafts… the first rapid was a bit scary… but after we had couqured it.. we felt relieved… then we raised our paddles and shout AHOO! AHOO! (from the 300 Ilongo version) eheheheh…. then we felt a sudden courage on ourselves and never get scared of the next rapids…. it was quite amazing that our guides had named those rapids… for example was the "Dandruff" rapids… and then we ask why? then he answered that once they have this adventurer named Dan(a Foreigner) who was dropped out of the raft in those rapids… Dan Drop = Dan Druff (P read as F) then all of us laugh…. they still got those time to make us laugh trying to make us at ease and be calm… the sun was very hot… and i guess the sub block has no used at all… then suddenly was we were following our friends on the other raft.. they had suddenly disappeared because of the suddent drop.. and their raft turned over… capping them beneath… their paddles and slippers were floating… one of their guided was quick in saving them.. reaching them bringing them near the raft.. the other guide was still under the raft trying to find its way out…. we also experienced the sudden drop but fortunately we had overcome it.. we had conqured it…AHOO! AHOO! as we shout then we had tried to help our friends and so are the other two rafts who were together with us… we felt scared of what had happened… TG they were ok and safe.. they had lost their water, J of Cebu had some wounds on his knees, the guide lost his shades… one of the paddles was shattered…this time we were very careful…. then we continue with our 3 hours journey….then on the next very long rapids… another raft turned over…. eheheh it was the raft who had saved our friends…. BAD LUCK had come to them…the two girls were shock.. but they were ok and they were save by our friends whom they had saved before… that was a HELL of experience… and she had lost her expensive flipflops… and all is well and ok as we had reach our final destination….we were satisfied and feel contented and happy….. we had our lunch and headed back to the hotel… and sleep for about 2 hours….. then we went to the mall to buy some "pasalubong"(presents) then had dinner at BigBys and off to the port to catch our boat which was heading for Cebu… our next pit stop…
3rd day.. Monday(we had taken our VL so no worries)… we headed to our branch office to take a bath and to leave our things for the meantime while R and I toured J & J around Cebu.(it was their first time)… had a lunch out together with the Cebu employees… and a little chit chat…. well there’s not much to do in Cebu since we were a bit tired.. so I just stayed in the office and talk to some of the employees.. whil R,J & J went to buy some other "pasalubong". and the clock ticks at 7:00 PM… and we need to go to the airport for our filght… and the good hearted T had drove us to the airport… and it was the end of our 3 days adventure.. and it was fun…
