Ferry Trip to the Bay: Packing Up for the Ride

Just noticed that I hadn't visited (and posted, to boot) in this blog. With the perfect opportunity, (a trip to the bay via ferry ride) tomorrow, I figured it was high time to tell this piece of electronic online software called a blog some tidbits about the excursion the next day.

And so I was shoved like a lone traveller waiting on a train station on a overnight visit, then being shoved by a stream of passengers, both young and old, into another train heading on a destination other that what I had planned to go the day before. The planned trip with relatives (from my father's side) on a day tour arond the bay was decided by my father on his own. We hadn't had our say (not even one word) about the trip. We had to agree, despite the fact that I had yet to find some sort of excitement in this. Looks like I have to join the rest of my family (sans my mom, who complained of lower back pain) on this trip.

Ridiculous that my mother had to make us pack so much stuff on our backpacks, like we're going on a camping tour to the mountains. I counted a dozen varieties of sweets as I had to check all the things we were bringing. Camineros, is how my dad puts it. Me? I thought we would look like one of those toursts who've just come for the 7-day package of touring the bay, but found out that the cruise wouldn't last that long. That's what we will look like if we had to carry every single piece of luggage (that's 3 backpacks and 2 sets of umbrellas) on the trip.

Life vests, though, are a necessity in seafaring. In case you drown and do/don't know how to swim, there's an extra help of buoyancy for you. They're called life vests for a reason.

I was handed a manual of sorts on how to use a PFD. Type 3, huh? There was a classification for this sort of thing, depending on the situation wherein you have to use it for safety. On the back was written the lines, "Skipper - skip the drinks". Getting tipsy from alcholic drinks sure can alter your perception of what's the right side up, is what I understood of it.
It also says, "At least 80% of boating accidents involve alcohol". Guess I was right about something, after all. Drinking is bad for your health, is what the government should add, right after showing all those cigarette advertisements on TV and putting on the Surgeon General's Warning right after.

The trip starts early in the morning, so I better hit the sack.