Amana Waterpark Resort | Day Out with Work Friends

I have told you about my box theory before, and I think it is working. One box of my life is still clattered, but my "work friends" box is definitely in a good place right now :)

Ever since my first week in my new job, my officemates have been inviting me to join them in this day trip in Bulacan. On the original date of the trip, I had to back out (you could actually read what I did that weekend in this post). And believe it or not, they moved the date so I could join them! They're the sweetest because a normal set of colleagues won't do that considering that their other officemates (those that have resigned from the company already) is also clearing up their sched for this.

We ended up doing it last week (I had to edit photos and actually work before making a blog post, okay?). We had to meet early, like 6am early, at Cubao to get there early. Some were late, so we were complete by almost 7am. But an obstacle happened -- the person holding the vouchers (we availed Buy 1 Take 1 vouchers) could not be reached! No text from him and not even answering any calls. We waited for 2 hours, and I honestly thought we wouldn't push through. But some of us were already waiting at Bulacan... Luckily, one of my colleague's sister had the same vouchers as well that we could borrow for the mean time. So even if the sun was already shining brightly, we rode the first bus going there!

The first time I rode a bus to travel to somewhere was when I was in Bohol for my thesis field work back in college. I haven't rode a bus in Manila going to any province before! Heck, I don't even ride the bus to commute! But this was a nice experience for me -- it's the people who you are with that makes even a normal situation extra special and memorable :)

After a bus plus tricycle ride, we finally arrived at Amana Waterpark Resort!

 

We rented out a cabana, brought lunch and snacks, and ate and laughed together before deciding to have a dip in the pools. Funny story -- the guy from the cabana behind us was listening and laughing with our jokes!

The place was actually huge! There were lots of pools to go to - if I remember correctly, there were 5 open pools that time, but there were more that were temporarily closed.

We started at the wave pool,

tried out other pools,

took photos at Jurrasic World,

then came back to the wave pool.

It was a fun Saturday with work friends and new found friends :) I honestly couldn't describe the giddy feeling I got the whole time I was with them. It looked like we were friends forever when I just met them for around 8 weeks! I even got instant "twins" that day :))

Here are more photos:

 

One of the rare shots I'm in! :))

Eaten by a dinosaur??

My "twins" and our house :))

 

  

Crazy part? I was with my college friends that same night and went to my first college party! And yes, I have graduated college already. But my friends are still on their last semester, so I kinda count like a college student as well! :)) But that's another story (not) to tell ;)

PS. I'm not in most of the photos! But I did enjoy taking photos of my new friends :)