Friends, Mud, and Lessons Learned

I went hiking this past weekend. The hike was the muddiest, hardest, and most fun hike I've been on. It rained on and off all day so the trail was extremely muddy. The hike was supposed to take about 2 hours but it took us 4 and a half hours to go up and 2 and a half to come down. The goal was to start hiking at 3am and catch the sunrise, but due to waiting around for jeeps to get to the mountain, we didn't start hiking until 4:40am. It was just as well because it was so slippery and hiking that in the dark would have been so much worse than it already was.

Joash tried to make rice but it ended up looking like puto because he didn't put enough water in! When you go on a day hike in the Philippines, you have to bring a pot and a little stove so you can have rice!