I still can't believe we survived and actually made it from Laoag to Batanes and back in this little 8-seater plane (10-seater actually with the 2 pilots) ... Never did I pray as hard as I did, nor do I remember ever calling out to heaven and all the saints as I did during those 2 hours we were up there several thousands of feet above sea level...

Up there, in between outer space and the Pacific Ocean (or was it the China Sea?), in between the whispered, choked up Hail Mary's and the deafening ear-popping swallows, I thought about my family, my friends, my pet rabbit, my future grandchildren and all the loved ones i would have left behind if we .....if we tragically didn't make it .... but we did....we made it safely and boy, did i mention it was a very smooth flight too? Thanks to our excellent pilots - Captain Rommel Santero and Co-Pilot Jojo Santos who expertly navigated the vast blue sky and steered us to safety on that cloudless sunny day....

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