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"Holy Naga Weekend!"

Holy Week was spent by all 3 Families in Naga City. Planned 6-hour trips back-and-forth turned into 10-hour trips with stopovers, overtakes and traffic. Should've brought more than 5 CDs and 1 tpb (Danger Girl: The Ultimate Collection, bought with Rachelle whom I treated to tea at Seattle's Best last Wednesday after Aimee treated me to lunch at Grappos that same day... but that's another story)

Day 1 was spent settling in the established houses where we'd be sleeping. Took a trip to the LCC (their version of SM) "mall," then to my maternal grandmother's gravesite, then finally capping off with dinner at 3-Ku's house.

Day 2 was "leisure time," first with a trip to a private beach house in Bacacai, Legazpi. The filthy sea water kinda ruined it, but the kids swam anyway. We even got to bury Herman in the sand. After lunch we headed for the Mayon Volcano, specifically the rest stop at the bottom (or 1/4 the way up). Simultaneous hot-sunny and cool-breezy was really annoying. Before heading back to the beach house for dinner we stopped by the local zoo, which was pretty cool, in a "looks better than Manila Zoo and smells better than Tagaytay Zoo" kinda way. I couldn't figure out though why the ostriches, mountain goats, sheep and chickens were in the same cage/lot. Low budget, or were they going for a Noah's Ark theme? Capped off the evening watching Mean Machine on DVD.

Day 3 went more slowly. Thinking that our ride to Bestra would be late Emark and I had a heavy lunch. Wouldn't ya know it, the ride came early, so unfortunately we were too full to enjoy any of the party food prepared for April's birthday. After killing time watching Transformers The Movie on DVD (newly noticed details: Megatron's oily blood and drool, and pike actually said Oh, shit!), we headed out for Pasacao to check out the family owned ports. (I thought they planned to swim again.) Sis had a small accident when she slipped the busted the infra-red cover of the video camera. Failing to swim in the surprisingly cleaner Pasacao waters we caught up with Glen and his family at a water resort in Penafrancia. The kids got to swim and slide while we got video footage of Herman going down the water slide with Mia...and slipping while trying to stand up! Funny and scary and the same time. Big dinner party at Mabulo (5-Kim's house) that ended with one group going to 5-Kim's brother Atoy's ice making factory and the other out bowling. Boit and Sis tied at 125, while I sucked at 76.

Not sleeping on my final night in Naga I watched One Hour Photo, then got picked up at 4 AM to head for Mabulo (I slept in Emark's house), where the Families met up, had a big breakfastm and departed at 5:15 in the morning. Four stops and 1 lunch at Max's Restaurant later we arrived home at 4 in the afternoon.