Fiesta Sampaguita 2009

One could not ignore the noisy loudspeakers coming from the main avenue early yesterday morning, inviting everyone to watch the parade for the Sampaguita Festival.

Jon and I were supposed to leave early to meet Bee at Trinoma, but when I looked for him, he was already outside taking photos so I followed him out and ended up taking videos since it's hard to capture moving subjects on my simple digital camera.

Apparently, despite the festival being about the sampaguita flower, the participating baranggays each made a rooster, which they paraded along the avenue.

• Note: I replaced the music being played on the street with some other dance music, since it would be ugly to retain said music after editing.

Planning the Batanes Trip

Sam and I planned the Batanes Trip last November. When we booked our plane reservations December 1, Jon and Sam's mom also decided to join us. We planned to go there April 22-26 this year. I invited Bee to join us but she couldn't commit yet.

Last December 25, when I told Aunt Hilda about my trip, she thought of joining us, and she'll probably bring along Dana and Chloe. Even then, I was thinking that if we could stay at either Aunt Fe or Aunt Dolly, 7 people would still be alot.

Last Monday, Bee called to say she wants to go to Batanes. Aunt Hilda hasn't told me if she was pushing through with her plans, but I was wondering how Aunt Fe and Aunt Dolly would do taking in 8 people between them.

It seems that I am not the only one planning to go to Batanes.

Mariel is thinking about going to Batanes but during the Holy Week, and she told me that Joy has plans to visit the Philippines end of March and attend a high school reunion in Batanes on April 1. When I mentioned that to Glen, it was the first time he heard about Joy's plans.

I've been bugging Glen a lot lately since he is the only cousin who's decided to stay in Batanes.