Saturday in the park
“Saturday… in the park” is a lyric from an old Chicago song that I’ve liked. Today, after lunch in Leah’s home, I rode atop a jeepney to the Monterrazas Village entrance then walked down to Baguio Gold to ask the girls if they’d like to go tricycling in Baguio City’s Burnham Park.
We missed getting a jeepney ride uphill out of Baguio Gold by ten minutes, so we walked up the steep Baguio Gold Road. Then we waited more than several minutes to get a jeepney ride into Baguio City. In the city, I took the sisters to UFC Taekwondo studio to show them where their brother Nick trains. We saw him high-kicking for a minute or two before we resumed walking toward Burnham Park.
In the park, I rented tricycles for the girls then sat on the grass while they enjoyed recreation with the other kids. Afterward, we hiked back up to the Porta Vaga Building to meet with Nick after his class. Minutes after ascending the staircase toward the cathedral and UFC Taekwondo, we went down them to Session Road, crossed it and entered Gobi Mongolian Grill to eat chicken mami.
After dinner we bought student supplies in all four CID stores along Session Road and got cold medicine before returning to Tuding. I walked with the kids in the darkness on Main Avenue and Baguio Gold down to their shack in Baguio Gold, carrying Rose over the rough, unpaved segments, as we had no flashlights. In their home, I talked with Mack, Pat, Nick and Nanay of Sagada and about schools in Tuding and Baguio City while the girls played with a new toy that I’d bought.
Around 8:45 I got up to begin my hike uphill to my home. Dominic came home from Leah’s and Mike’s home a minute after me.
