Post Holiday Guests - Part 2

One of the things I missed about Southern California is the enormous number of movies all showing in the multiplexes at the same time. Within the last few months, the only movies we’ve seen here are the new James Bond flick Casino Royale, Déjà vu with Denzel Washington as a government agent investigating an explosion on a ferry in New Orleans (cool movie) and Eragon, a fantasy movie about dragons and stuff – great special effects. With my love of movies, that’s barely enough and I’m quickly running out of DVD’s to watch!! I’m thinking of watching Night at the Museum next. I missed Blood Diamond, I hope it’s still showing at SM Clark.

Anyway…

We got a call from Mergine saying Beth from the Bay Area is in town on vacation. So they scheduled to celebrate Didi’s birthday Monday Jan 22, here at the house. These women are the famous Thaetians, a clique of 8 nursing classmates and they’re all Eph’s ninangs. Early morning Donna and I went to the wet market and picked up some crabs and shrimps and a chocolate cake for Didi. They came a little after high noon with Jojo driving but without Pareng Nasty. He was supposed to have been done with his hearing in the morning but as it turned out, it was in the afternoon. So, he and Sherwin came at around 4, I think. For dinner we had the leftovers from lunch and Jojo and Sherwin bought some extra barbecue and crispy pata and another cake from Goldilock's. I guess January was also the birth month of Mergine and Jane. They didn’t leave until about 9 or 10 at night. They were going to wait for Fe (Ferrer) Mangulabnan, another classmate from Chicago, but she and husband Patrick went to his hometown in Nueva Ecija and didn’t get back till really late.

Fe and a sister dropped by the house early the next morning. That's her on the top picture with Donna on the couch.