to avoid some people yesterday (and today), i thought of staying overnight at C's place. however, C had decided to go visit the Lady of Manaoag at Pangasinan and so, invited me to join her and her cousin to this pilgrimage. i was supposed to do something else last night but P encouraged me to go even if i fel a little bit tired and lazy. i was also supposed to join some friends at a festival but then decided to go with C instead since i haven't seen the Lady yet. so i stayed overnight at her place and left at around 3a to catch the earliest bus. at the bus station, we got the 5a trip but eventually made the 4a trip because the ones who made reservations were late. we thought we're going to arrive there after six hours of road trip but we made it in 4, give or take 30 minutes! isn't that great?
the place was really crowded and the mass was already ongoing when we arrived. we looked in on the traveling Lady image and went inside the church for a view of the real one:
so anyway, we attended part of the mass, prayed, had our blessing and lighted our candles. later, ate M had to visit her suki for her religious items. we also had to buy our kakanin na rin from the array of food showcased outside the church. then we headed home... that's an approximately 12-hr trip!
how to get there: we took the baguio bus at victory station at edsa (php 275) and the barker dropped us off near a gasoline station at binalonan, pangasinan. we walked a few meters to get to the jeepney going to manaoag (php 17). we were let off at the back of the church.
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