The world according to my cats

When I’m in my room, they meow to death and they let themselves in to be with mommy. How? I was able to video it recently.

My girls have this bad habit of not closing my bedroom door properly. J called them longtail because of this. So anyway, my cats take advantage of this and are able to push their paws/body against the door to open it.

My househelp told me that when I’m away, my cats wait for me by the window near the front door of the apartment. Sometimes majority of the day they wait for me there. And when I come home, they meow like crazy like I haven’t fed them for a week. Or scolding me for being away too long.

It’s cute. They’re like obnoxious dogs.

I am the only world that they have known. Except maybe for the short time they were with their birth mom cat and that traumatic time in the storm drain. This knowledge keeps me from being away for too long.

I wonder if I can bring them with me when we go camping 🤔

I plan to camp again in Mt. Purro Nature Reserve high up in Sierra Madre that is still part of Antipolo. J and I went there once with the girls to swim. There are cottages but there’s a camping site there and we can hike and go river trekking.

No, can not bring cats.

Where do broken hearts go?

To Lake Caliraya. To camp. And bike. And ride the jetski.

First thing we did after paying was to pitch the tent. The last time I did this was 21 years ago, when my friends and I climbed and camped in Mt. Maculot in Batangas.

Photo by CallMeCreation.com

Photo by CallMeCreation.com

I brought my Korean portable stove to cook rice. And the grill for tomorrow’s breakfast. But for today’s lunch, it’s grilled chicken that I cooked at the grilling station.

My mom cooking rice. Photo by CallMeCreation.com
Chicken inasal. Photo by CallMeCreation.com

Of course my mom is not roughing it out. She rented a cabin, a tiny house made of container van.

PHP 4,000 a night. There’s a deck on top and a private bathroom. Photo by CallMeCreation.com
Photo by CallMeCreation.com
Photo by CallMeCreation.com

We’re camping while my mom still has her creature comforts. Win-win. Good that I was able to bring her out of the house after a long house arrest.

And we were able to bike around. Photo by CallMeCreation.com
Me, biking to the nearest sari-sari store to buy ice for our cooler. Photo by CallMeCreation.com
Relishing the moment the girls are biking. Photo by CallMeCreation.com
And this is us now before going to bed. Photo by CallMeCreation.com

This would have been a good camping experience for the girls if not for the freakingly annoying campers who brought six huge concert speakers, their mixing tables and DJ equipment and had basically boom boomed the day and night away. 🤬

You can check out Kaliraya Surf Kamp and rates and amenities are here.

Meet my new partner

Early evening fruit shake trip. Photo by CallMeCreation.com

It folds. I have no trouble shoving it at the back of my car. I can bring it with me anywhere.

We will have more adventures in the coming days. I’m creating new memories by myself with this new partner.

I think I’m fine with that because that’s the future I’m going to carve out for myself.