my brother, ezra, came home for his birthday. it was a surprise but i totally knew he was coming home. let's just say my mom's not the best liar in the world.
since it was his birthday and all, we decided to have a lil family gathering. we took forever to decide on the venue.. first, we decided cagayan, then palawan, then siargao, then dumaguete, then shangrila, then.. okay, i don't remember anymore but the point is.. we ended up deciding to just stay in cebu. hahaha sooo, we rented out this beach house in mactan. it was a really nice house with a deck and really cold aircons [sorry, just had to mention it] my mom asked my brother if he wanted to invite his friends over to drink but my brother just said he wanted to spend it with family. so the whole weekend, we were playing boardgames and drinking. it was so weird drinking with my family. it was cool though. i saw my parents take shots of vodka.. not a very pretty sight. we played pictionary and my brothers made up this rule where every 3 wins, the other team would take shots.. but for every 3 loses, that team also has to take shots. i don't know if that made any sense but anyway... my team was awesomeee. we only took like 3 shots. my parents got pretty wasted. hahahaha so wrong.. but anyway, my brothers were being mean to me and i ended up crying really hard. all in all.. the weekend was great.
the food we had is a whole other story. every meal we had was amazing. nothing went wrong and everything was just too damn good. thank
GOD my whole family can cook.
this weekend was the first family outing we had with actual bonding. i would usually see my family as friends and people i could really get along with.. but this weekend, we were an actual family. my brothers were being mean brothers with all the teasing, my mom was my mom and comforted me when i cried, my sister was being antisocial and sleeping in the room, my dad just being there and sleeping. even though the weekend pissed me off, i still loved it. i haven't seen my family in this light in a long time. the inner youngest-sibling-crybaby in me really came out.
my brother's leaving soon and things are gonna go back to normal..
looking forward to the next family outing :)