the whole family {excluding my bro} set a visit our grandmother at our father's side's ancestral province at rizal, nueva ecjia. april 22 marked the fiesta as well so food was overflowing during our overnight stay. our grandma, whom we call 'nanay', cooked every meal my father would yearn served everyday at our dinner table. nanay welcomed our visit w/ a lechon, dinuguan, kilawin, papaitan, leche flan, gelatin, baskets of fruits and more. we all plunged in for the food, especially the lechon right after we stepped out of the mini-coaster. well, we travelled for more than 5 hours w/o any stop overs for food that's why.
it was my daughter's first lengthy journey.
after multiple rounds from visiting the dinner table, the kids entertained themselves w/ the playstation 2. my father & the rest of the adult men celebrated through hard drinks at the balcony, my mom & some of my aunts went to see a beauty pageant & ballroom dancing at the baranggay during the evening whilst myself, my ate, cousins & nieces bonded at the sala playing over the PC game called 'mystery files' at my dad's laptop.
my cousins & myself pleasured ourselves at the terrace during the late night, listening over mike's PSP on his collection of dane cook's hilarious antics. that went on until 4 in the morning.
the next day was no different, there was still a deluge of food at nanay's table. after brunch, my baby enjoyed swimming w/ her cousin nik at a make-shift pool nanay set for them. in the afternoon, we visited our tita's newly renovated house a mile away from nanay's to again, feast on their table. we went back to nanay's an hour later, packed our stuff & went home before nightfall.
the mini-coaster's cooler broke so we had our windows open during the journey home. my niece nicole lost her favorite pillow when she accidentally threw it out the window while playing with her sis. she initially reacted as if nothing had happened which surprised everybody so we decided to just leave it at the road, but in a few minutes, she started crying, begging & hollering out to everyone to turn the bus around for her pillow. everyone of us tried our hardest to make her stop crying {her heart condition does not allow heavy emotions or she may experience another stroke}. we promised her a starbucks bear along the way. we stopped by the petron gas station along the highway & purchased her an expensive starbucks signature bear to alleviate her longing for 'er favorite pillow. each of us enjoyed our own frappes as well. we got home before 10pm.
here are some photos:
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