Our Papo's Day

Normally, we don't celebrate Father's Day. Because on a "normal sit", our Papo is onboard some ship in the other parts of the world. Yesterday, he's home! Sadly, my three brothers aren't. So I'm the only child he has for the day.

Him and mom went out early to catch the 2nd Sunday Mass, but me and Labsy went out earlier to participate in the iRun for Rizal fun run in celebration of the National Hero's Day. Well, Labsy ran, while me walked around to catch a photo moment of the runners as they strive while having fun with friends toward the finish line...

Labsy, will be very work-busy during the day, so my intentions of going to the beach won't be possible. Instead, after the run, we met up with Mamo and Papo and went to the market to relived the tsokolate and puto-maya breakfast moments. I miss the taste every now and then, so it was perfect after my walk. ;)

After the breakfast, while Mamo and Papo went to buy something, me and Labsy sneaked up to buy a bouquet of flowers. We don't normally give flowers to guys, but I figured, it would be funny yet perfect to convey our love and appreciation to Papo.

After a little rest at home, Labsy head to the office, while me, Mamo and Papo went to do a little errand for Nonots (bro). But before that, it was near lunch time, so we stopped for lunch at Ahfat Seafood Plaza first (JP Laurel Ave., Davao City, Victoria Plaza's parking area).  It was a very full seafood meal (Green soup, Crabs in spicy salt and fried lapu-lapu in sweet and sour sauce) and it was indeed a day with an occasion, since almost all tables were marked reserved already, we're lucky to have came early, we got the one last unreserved table available.

After lunch, we drove to Abreeza Mall then to LandCo Bldg for the errand thing. Then off to three big hardware stores (City, Wilcon and Express) to check out some tiles, since there's an on going construction at home. After a long afternoon of hopping from one hardware to another, we finally have the tiles we want, which numbers we want is available as well.

Because of a very full lunch or maybe we were engrossed with the tiles picking and design matching, we missed snacks. It was almost 5PM, when we thought, instead of having snacks, we might as well have an early dinner. So, we fetched Labsy, and went to Ayang's (Araullo St.) for a superb dinner buffet. At first, we initially wanted to go to Rancher Grill, but I figured, buffet would be best to have a variety of food and desserts. I picked Ayang's, since among four of us, all three of them haven't been there yet.

We arrived there a quarter before 6PM, so not all food are ready, but the appetizers were. So we started with it while waited for the main course. They had a variety of appetizers, three we perfectly enjoyed was the egg salad, kinilaw and fried chicken skin. They had veggies and salad dressings too for vegetarians. ;)

Later came the main course, they had clam soup, beef, fish fillet, shrimp, lengua, kare-kare, sotanghon and crabs in cheese sauce. So we dig in. We were so full, but we left a space for the dessert. They had ube jam, puto/rice cakes w/ grated coconut, fresh fruits like pomelo, pineapple and watermelon, fruit salad, macaroni salad, buko pandan, mango float, tiramisu (I'm not sure though), brownies and leche flan.

All of us agreed we had a very delicious meal. We stayed a couple of hours and chit-chat while munching on the desserts.

It was a full day and I'm so glad I have my Papo to spend Father's Day with... Let's celebrate the presence of the important people in our lives and cherish each moment we have them...