Thanksgiving 2008
Last Wednesday, Donna has already started preparing her prime rib and Emy upon coming home from work, marinated the huge turkey (which, frozen solid, has previously been thawing out for a few days) in her mysterious mixture of water and other ingredients. By the way, Thanksgiving in the US is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday which usually, but not always, falls on the last Thursday of November.
The morning of Thanksgiving started with my brothers, Cong Mansing and Cong Paing, coming over for our walk at the La Mirada Park. It's been raining within the last couple of days but somehow the rain started letting up Wednesday night which I'm sure brought a sigh of relief to the people around the burnt areas of the recent Southern California brush fires. Heavy rain usually results in flash flooding and landslides. They've been broadcasting in the local news, people shoring up their neighborhood with hundreds of sandbags.
Around noon time Donna and I headed on out towards Norwalk for Thanksgiving lunch with the Quizons. We got there and were comfotably seated and talking with them while waiting for Rach and Eph from Long Beach when Emy calls saying my sister-in-law Tess and Jack just arrived in La Mirada. So we had to quickly leave Norwalk to meet them. It only took us a few minutes. It's good to see them again after all these... hmm, trying to remember the last time. Ate Tess spent Christmas in the Philippines last year. So it's been almost a year. I don't even remember the last time I saw Jack. After talking with them a bit and giving them the pasalubong from Ayrin and her daughters in the Philippines, we went back to Norwalk. Eph and Rach along with other guests were already there and they've already started lunch when we arrived. It's Thanksgiving so of course Rose prepared a lot of food in addition to the traditional baked turkey.
After taking pictures we went back to La Mirada so Donna can help Emy cook dinner. While they were cooking, Nido went to sleep. He was off Wednesday night - for his Thanksgiving Holiday, but he had to work Thanksgiving night. He said to wake him up before dinner.
The first to arrive was Daniel. Nido started saying grace and I finished thanking the Lord for all the blessings of 2008. After all in spite of what's going on with the world economy, they're still working and everyone is fairly healthy and as evidenced with all the food in front of us, we were still lucky and blessed. I was especially thankful for our upcoming grand kid that Rachel is carrying inside her right now. By the way, in the next ultrasound next month, they'll find out the sex of the baby.
We were already eating when Sherwin arrived. He was with his cousin Bobby and his wife Maritess and their two younger sons. After a while Eph, Rach, Jun and Rose arrived. As for Donna and myself, this will be our second turkey meal of the day. Oh well, I'll just have to walk it off somehow!
I miss Reggie a lot, but, oh well...
When we visited Onor in Las Vegas, she was asking if I have pictures of other dishes in my files. Well Onor, click here and eat your heart out!
The morning of Thanksgiving started with my brothers, Cong Mansing and Cong Paing, coming over for our walk at the La Mirada Park. It's been raining within the last couple of days but somehow the rain started letting up Wednesday night which I'm sure brought a sigh of relief to the people around the burnt areas of the recent Southern California brush fires. Heavy rain usually results in flash flooding and landslides. They've been broadcasting in the local news, people shoring up their neighborhood with hundreds of sandbags.
Around noon time Donna and I headed on out towards Norwalk for Thanksgiving lunch with the Quizons. We got there and were comfotably seated and talking with them while waiting for Rach and Eph from Long Beach when Emy calls saying my sister-in-law Tess and Jack just arrived in La Mirada. So we had to quickly leave Norwalk to meet them. It only took us a few minutes. It's good to see them again after all these... hmm, trying to remember the last time. Ate Tess spent Christmas in the Philippines last year. So it's been almost a year. I don't even remember the last time I saw Jack. After talking with them a bit and giving them the pasalubong from Ayrin and her daughters in the Philippines, we went back to Norwalk. Eph and Rach along with other guests were already there and they've already started lunch when we arrived. It's Thanksgiving so of course Rose prepared a lot of food in addition to the traditional baked turkey.
After taking pictures we went back to La Mirada so Donna can help Emy cook dinner. While they were cooking, Nido went to sleep. He was off Wednesday night - for his Thanksgiving Holiday, but he had to work Thanksgiving night. He said to wake him up before dinner.
The first to arrive was Daniel. Nido started saying grace and I finished thanking the Lord for all the blessings of 2008. After all in spite of what's going on with the world economy, they're still working and everyone is fairly healthy and as evidenced with all the food in front of us, we were still lucky and blessed. I was especially thankful for our upcoming grand kid that Rachel is carrying inside her right now. By the way, in the next ultrasound next month, they'll find out the sex of the baby.
We were already eating when Sherwin arrived. He was with his cousin Bobby and his wife Maritess and their two younger sons. After a while Eph, Rach, Jun and Rose arrived. As for Donna and myself, this will be our second turkey meal of the day. Oh well, I'll just have to walk it off somehow!
I miss Reggie a lot, but, oh well...
When we visited Onor in Las Vegas, she was asking if I have pictures of other dishes in my files. Well Onor, click here and eat your heart out!
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