bicycling in Burnham Park
Today the kids didn’t have to go to school in Baguio Gold, so Nick and Rose came to visit. They were dressed nicely, so I asked if they’d like to accompany me to Baguio City to check my mail box for their birth certificate copies and have lunch. Of course they were more than willing.
We stepped off the jeepney at Father Carlu street and hiked up to the post office as we have so many other days. As usual, nothing was in mailbox 431. I don’t understand why the birth certificates haven’t arrived. National Statistics Office or Philippine Postal Corporation have failed us. The kids and I descended the steps to Session Road and crossed it to have an early lunch in Jollibee on Governor Pack Road. I don’t favor Jollibee of all the hundreds of eateries in Baguio City. But this Jollibee/Greenwich/Red Ribbon store is much quieter than the other Jollibee and McDonald’s restaurants in the city. And we went in before noon.
After lunch we walked to the bicycle renting vendors in Burnham Park to find a small tricycle for Rose and a decent BMX bike for Nick to ride for an hour. After an hour of cycling on the rough, dirty roads of the park, Rose, her brother and I walked several blocks to Rajah Soliman Street to get a snack in that Jollibee and groceries to take home on a Baguio Gold jeepney.
We waited half an hour on the jeepney to leave Rajah Soliman Street for Baguio Gold. We bailed-out and hiked up to the Tuding-bound jeepney stop on Mabini Street. We were able to board a jeepney and depart within a minute! Of course “Tuding Express” jeepneys don’t go all the way down to Baguio Gold, so we disembarked at the entrance to Monterrazas Village.
We walked through the Village down to Baguio Gold to take the groceries and retrieve Nick’s materials for the homework assignment that he wanted to do in the apartment. He doesn’t have to go to school tomorrow, Saturday, but he wanted to do his assigned project sooner rather than later.