Holidays 2011

This Christmas, my family spent the holidays with the Claudio clan for the first time since forever. It was really a quiet celebration. We had dinner at around 8PM, and the rest of the night we just spent opening gifts and babysitting kids. 

The next day (25th), we went to Tagaytay to eat Bulalo (that wasn’t even good). Boo that restaurant! We got stuck in traffic for hours too. I think the whole trip was 2/3 being stuck in traffic and 1/3 eating, walking, and taking photos. Didn’t even get a decent shot of Taal. 

We had late Christmas/early New Year celebration with the Raralios a day before new year! It was super fun, and loud (this is how we always spend the holidays)! We had games (yeah, that will never change haha), the guys had too much to drink, and the ladies kept on playing Mahjong till 5AM the next day. No wonder no one was waking us up at 8AM.

The game that never sleeps in the house.

Pinoy Henyo! My partner (Jhen) and I won this game with the word JOSEPH in 7 seconds! BOOYAH!

These are scraps of paper, you know, cos we just want to cut paper and scatter them on the floor. Jk, these are improvised play money. We scatter them around, and then we randomly get 4 pieces (cos we’re 7 in the game) and then we add the amount on each of the paper and the winner is based on the game master (for example, the person with the least amount wins, or the highest amount, or with the amount nearest to 150 pesos, etc). Winner gets P20.00 each.

When, finally, the game master wants to end the game, we scatter and gather again one last time (excluding nuisance play money, like those with 0.25 on them). I got P90.00 on the last round so I got P90.00.

My sister got P130.00. She had the highest amount, but I won far more games than she did that night.

While everybody gets something in the end, it doesn’t necessarily mean a good value. Case in point, my cousin won P7.00 only. :))

Obligatory food photo. We have this habit of having more than what we can eat on the dining table because the parentals believe that the practice attracts abundance in the household. Hmm.

So how did you spend your holidays? :)