This is how I spent my birthday

I woke up to a delicious breakfast of my favorite Filipino kakanin like puto, kutsinta and ube. I'm not that good at taking food photos though and they all came out not that appetizing so I just won't post them here :D It has been planned weeks before that my whole family will go swimming in my birthday. My Mama and Papa woke up extra early to go to the market and buy ingredients for a family barbecue we will have later in the day.

We left the house at around 9am and arrived at Dad's Water Paradise in Malabon City before 10am. I left my camera's charger at my apartment (boo!) so I only got to to take a few photos. Let me share some of them here :)

that's my whole family plus my cousins :)

early lunch of fried chicken, hotdogs and pork barbecue!

(from L to R: my cousin Loui, my mom, my sister Kyla, my cousin Migui, my dad, my cousin Jerico, Ate Dorina and my brother Ken)

my cousin Jerico cannot decide which floater to use :D

Mama and Papa :D

the water looks green because of the reflection of the roof-deck

my brother Ken

my sister Kyla

I look really tanned in this photo :D

As I said in my birthday post, I wanted to swim this sweltering summer heat away, so swim I did! :D We were there until 5pm. When we got home, my Papa ordered pancit miki-bihon. Delicioso!

It was a fun, fun day with people I love the most. Times like these are rare, especially now that I am staying in my own apartment already, so I really appreciate that we get to do this.

The celebration was not over, today we had a spaghetti party :)

Seriously, my Papa makes the best spaghetti :D

I am just frustrated that I haven't had cake yet. As per Manju, a birthday is no birthday unless there's cake.

my shirt says it all really

Tomorrow (in as much as I want to stay home and just laze around) I go back to work. I hope I can get to have cake (and ice cream!) ♥♥