Zoo time

On Saturday we headed over to the zoo with the family.  It was a beautiful day with not a cloud in the sky but at 5pm it suddenly became dark and windy.  We were in "Africa" which was a fairly long walk away from the exits so the rain eventually caught up to us.  The trails leading to the exit was surrounded by tall skinny trees so the howling of the wind and the falling trees freaked us out and hurried us along faster than normal.  As you can imagine with a mass exodus we waited another 30 minutes inching ever so slowly for our turn to exit the parking lot.  The evening was spent at our place as we relaxed and we were entertained by Ella.

Mikey's Danceoff

A lot of memories came flooding back when we went to Notre Dame for Mikey's Danceoff Competition. We walked up and down the hallways and laughed at our old graduation pictures. We even said hello to an old teacher who apparently remembered us (yeah right). The Danceoff consisted of 13 groups representing different schools. We were thrilled and beamed with pride when they announced that Mikey's group one 1st Place. Awesome job, Mike!

Random Pics at Edward's Gardens

Enjoying the beautiful weather 

The future Mr & Mrs

Mr & Mrs Cantillas

Seyla & Ella found a tree to climb

Grandma & her apo enjoying a day at Edward's Garden

A Harry Rosen ad. 

55 Days to go

Saturday afternoon was spent at Casa Manila for Paul & Charissa's wedding shower/meet the family gathering.  There was a Bob Marley impersonator who kicked off the karaoke with No woman no cry.  Norm is not one to sing in public but thankfully he had some practice the night before (with the help of Patron).  It was also a day I realized that the Dancing Queen can not only dance but she can sing, too! Thankfully we have some key performers (Ate Car & Kuya Boyet) who never fail to represent. We continued the beautiful day at Edwards Gardens where we took Grandma for a spin up and down bridges.  Seyla and Ella enjoyed skipping rocks on the stream, climbing a tree and chasing ducks.  This is just the beginning of summer days ahead. And only 55 days to go until the wedding...

Thinking of you with Love

We thought of you with love today,

but that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday,

and days before that too.

We think of you in silence,

we often speak your name.

All we have are memories,

and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake,

with which we will never part.

God has you in His keeping,

we have you in our hearts.

It broke our hearts to lose you.

But you didn`t go alone.

For a part of us went with you...

the day God called you Home.

~Author Unknown

Thanks Pampered Chef

Thank you Pampered Chef for my pie accessories.  I did not use the pie stoneware since I am transporting this and fear that I might not get it back...so I will save it for Easter! One thing is for sure, there's nothing better than the smell of fresh apple pie.  Off I go to visit the Grandparents...

Field Trip

Our acupuncturist recommended that we start replacing our Greens+ with Wheatgrass juice so she sent us on a road trip to Stouffville - home of Life Up North.  We called the night before to check their hours of operation and told Tom, owner of Dynamic Greens, that we would be there at 9 am. It was raining in Toronto but snowing in Stouffville. Thank goodness we still have our snow tires on. To my surprise, Dynamic Greens is located on a farm. Tom & his wife graciously opened their home to us.  It was like we were old friends coming over to visit. After an hour chat with him we drove down to the farm and admired his Irish Wolfhounds, all 8 of them.  They greeted us with a very warm (and loud) reception. I love dogs but it was a little overwhelming since they were as tall as me.  Tom then threw me some egg holders and led us to the chicken coop where we gathered some fresh (warm) eggs. It was like a field trip to the farm!  I was not prepared for such an experience.  Picture me standing in the middle of a chicken coop with skinny jeans and a trench coat.  It was quite a sight. I didn't want to disturb the chickens as they sat on their eggs so Tom was nice enough to shoo them away so that we can collect our fresh farmed eggs. I don't think he does this with all of this clients. We showed interest in his dogs and mentioned we didn't know what an Irish Wolfhound was so he was eager to show them to us.  In the end, we went away with a 40 day supply of wheat grass juice (which was tastier than Greens+), a dozen eggs, and my first farm experience!

Since we were in the area, we went to see Rachel's lovely new house.  I worked my reverse psychology and my godson finally warmed up to me. He even called me "Ninang" and got hugs and kisses when we left.  What a perfect start to the weekend...