Easter Sunday: Glorious Nature

April 22, 2009

A blessed Sunday it was indeed.

To avoid the overcrowded swimming pools that day, to celebrate Ian’s birthday the day before, and to bond with the whole family one last time for the holy week, I urged the oldies on a 1-hour trip near the boundary of Nueva Ecija and Aurora. Kids didn’t need convincing at all. haha.

As I learned from a friend, there’s a river an hour or so away from our city where people go to. I’ve never explored the whole of my province, and it’s a surprise to me that there’s such a place. Luckily, Tito had been there on one of his motorcycle trips, and Lola had been wanting to visit the place. As for me, I want to swim on natural waters.

We headed to our destination. We arrived there about lunch time, and the place was so full! We were almost discouraged. We even planned to continue ahead to beaches in Aurora. But the day was really for us, and just about 300 meters away, we found a great place. Lola already heard about stone 8 (the place we found), so we checked it out.

one of two huge pools

 

Look! It has slides!
Yes, we also ran up and down these slides!

Now, now, now. That is not a swimming pool. Well, at least not completely. The water is coming from the Sierra Madre mountain range. It was cold and clear, unlike pools warm from the kids’ you know haha. From the volume of people who were also there, surprisingly, we didn’t have that itchy feeling.

 

Here’s the picture of the kiddie pool.
Behind it is the mountain where the water is coming from.

 

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