it's not unusual

it's summer once again, and with the season comes one of the most anticipated workplace activities... summer outings!

since our company has more than 300 employees in the head office/petron office alone, we were allowed to organize our own departmental outing. some have already gone to popular beach retreats like batangas, or water world resorts like fontana. one department even went as far as boracay (but this was planned way in advance). but when my department (along with 3 others) were asked where we were going for our outing, we were met with either trying-to-take-you-seriously expressions, or the more frank "talaga nga? totoo?". that's because we went to enchanted kingdom.

oh, come on. don't tell me you haven't heard of a company outing at EK. even i tagged along on my mom's outing for my first visit. but in this case, what people probably found incredible is that we were mostly singles or have no kids on tow. actually, only one of us had her kids come and she lived virtually next door to EK. but the point was, were were mostly in our twenties and we probably wanted to capture our lost youth -- or at least, go back to college age, which i knew i always wanted to do. and for a few hours, we were teenagers again.

yesterday we had our lunch at luk yuen in glorietta, and we boarded the bus going to balibago, sta. rosa at 2pm. EK day-trippers had separate (more expensive) tickets, but now i know how to get there much more cheaply. anyway, we got there at around 4 and the fun begins! first we got on the bumpcars -- tame in the fear factor but fun just the same. and of course just one turn is not enough, and the second run was better because i had more control of the car i was driving. after that we went on the pretend hot air balloons, then on the kids' rollercoaster (to get revved up?). i passed on anchors away, and got on jungle log jam and space shuttle -- my favorite thrill rides. and because of too much excitement i got real dizzy. whoa, i really should have remembered i was prone to motion sickness. which is why i opted not to go on rio grande, even if i was really looking forward to it. sigh. but even then, the bunch of us went home happy as clams.

i can't wait to see the pictures... and show them once i've learned how to post them ;)