Roya's house for good food and good company

So here was one cool reunion--we met up with Jason, Karen, and Grant over at Carlo and Roya's house. Those of you who don't know--Jason is my brother and Carlo is my cousin. I don't remember the last time we were all together. Joycelyn and I made a huge dinner that night: pancit, lumpia, eggrolls, adobo with rice, ect. It was some good eating.

For a while we were just sitting around the table and reminiscing (Jason about us not being at the airport when he got home for his mission--oops! sorry!) or swapping stories about our old high school friends and what they're up too. Lots of laughter filled that table that night. (Ryan and Randy aren't in the pic--after Ryan took this pic he and Randy went to see Bourne Ulitmatim together--I can't wait to see it!)


I gotta say, it is hotter than hot in that blasted area down south. And apparently the army doesn't consider air conditioning a necessity. Joycelyn's house doesn't have it...it has a swamp cooler of some sort that only allows the house to get ten degrees below whatever the temp is outside. Fat lot of good that does when it's stinking 100 degrees outside! Carlo and Roya's place was better...but all the cooking we did over there didn't help. Joycelyn came prepared with one of the pools she bought from Walmart. So the kiddos headed outside in their swimsuits and had a ton of fun jumping around in the water and playing with the hose.


Normally this late at night (past 8 o'clock) it would be way too cold to be spraying water on kids...but no, it was so hot that the water was coming out warm. We had fun with it anyway...the kids loved being sprayed. I got them as they ran around the backyard.