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Finally, the balikbayan boxes we had sent last April has arrived. A little late than usual, I have to call the agent here and my relatives has to call the Philippine agent at their end. We've watched our relatives opened the boxes thru the webcam and saw and heard all their excitement. Isn't technology nowadays amazing?

We went to a baseball game again last Sunday. Boy, talking about hot days of summer. This is a photo inside our car when we got to the parking lot after the game. Outside temperature is just a couple degrees "cooler". I always tell Hugbun that summer time in Maryland is hotter than in Cebu. As usual he disagrees. We decided to just have Chinese take out for dinner later.

Baltimore

We went to Baltimore for dinner in our friend's house last week. Oftentimes, I regret driving downtown Baltimore without a camera. This time though the paparazzi is ready, so I took a few pictures while Hugbun was driving.

Downtown Baltimore...

The Poe's Grave (Edgar Allan Poe and wife)...

Driving Around D.C.

We're excited to see the new stadium being built, so one Sunday afternoon right after church, we went to the site. I had the camera with us, so I took some pictures of downtown DC on the way to the site. The new stadium is shaping up quite fast.

Downtown D.C. - U.S. Capitol on the horizon

U.S. Capitol Upclose

One of the many museums in D.C.- American Indian Museum

Downtown D.C.

One of the historic neighborhoods in D.C.

New Stadium Constructions...

An Ordination...

Have you ever witnessed a priest being ordained? I haven't... neither does my Hugbun. Well, one of the deacons in our parish church was being ordained a couple of months ago. I thought to myself that this would be the chance to finally see one. We went to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and witnessed our first ordination. I got goose bumps the entire ceremony, it was beautiful!

At the National Shrine...

Full Blast Of The Summer Months II

We've been to countless ball games this year already. Our team is building a new stadium, Hugbun thinks that it would be harder to get "in the moment" tickets for the new stadium. So, he has this idea to buy season tickets this year to have a foot on the door when they sell tickets next year, as they would prioritize people who are season ticket holders. We spent our 4th of July in the ball park to see our team won, that game was so crowded but we had fun. Hugbun's vacation would be next month.

In the subway on the way to the game...

RFK from the train...


RFK from the train...

This is our "U.S. vacation" year (we go to the Philippines every other year). We're still undecided where to go though (a toss between New York, Memphis and Cape May in New Jersey), right now we're leaning towards Memphis. I really love to see The King's Mansion.

Full Blast Of The Summer Months I

Well here we are, just in the middle of summer and our heat index is off the roof. Hot, hot! hot! But gallivanting must go on ;-).

Keet has been on her summer vacation for almost a month now and she's enjoying every minute of it. Her school ended last June 4. After picking her up and having our lunch, we went to the movie to watch The Pirates of the Caribbean-At World's End. As usual we enjoyed the movie a lot, especially so with this movie (we've been waiting and waiting for this to come out), as Hugbun's favorite Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones is in the movie playing Jack Sparrow's father Captain Teague. We were so tickled with his cameo role especially we heard behind the scenes stories about him while making this movie.

Photos of Keith and Johny from Rolling Stone Magazine...


Anyway, Keet has a new layered hairdo this summer. She wanted her hair auburn so I dyed her hair auburn! The new hairdo and color really looks good on her.
Finally, the wrought iron porch furnitures that Keet and I repainted are finished. I even re-upholstered the chairs and I'm so pleased with the result.
Old upholstery...



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