Daily Report: Weekend Update

Saturday was a good day, if still rainy. For dinner, we went out to Kinse Amigos for bar-be-que chicken and pork. That place really is one of the cheapest and best places in town to get bar-be-que. We saw Mike and Marissa Turner there. We had a bit of a laugh because both myself and Epril, and Mike and Marissa were all wearing purple shirts.

We went to Zax (click here to see on Wikimapia, or on image to the right) at about 9:00 to listen to the music and watch the dancing. Unfortunately, the power to the sound system was out and the music didn't start until 10:30. Fortunately, that gave us time to chat: Dave and Rose Ferrell were there, Dave and Nilda Pebley were there, and Dr. Abe and his wife, and several of the Pebley's friends. We made a bit of a crowd. We had some fried calamari (one serving of which cost more than our entire pile of bar-be-que at Kinse Amigos).

We went home at about midnight.

On Sunday, it was out to Kingston Lodge ("just for a change," as Stan would say) and had lunch with all of the other expatriates. It was a nice crowd. Andy and Cynthia Gilbert were there. Harry Hopkins was there without Bebs, who was out in the village for the weekend. All of the usual British suspects were there. Dave and Rose Ferrell as well.

After lunch, I dropped Epril off at the jeepney stop, and she went out to Jasaan to visit with friends. It's another one of the reasons we're moving out to Jasaan: Epril wants to be able to see her friends more often than once every couple of months. We'll force ourselves to come back into Cagayan to see our friends here once we move, but it's always been a little bit more work to find time to get all the way out to Jasaan.

(Anacer, Nipzy, Epril and Princess Kim.)