Christmas 2015

Mike and I spent our first NZ Christmas on 2014 with fellow orphans :p - friends who have no family members here.  At that point in time, we only had each other and we are all one family

Christmas of 2015 was a bit different as we got to spend it with the cool oldies + kuya and April and dear Keyla :)

The Christmas feast

Keyla and her love letter from Santa.  Santa sneaked inside our house while we were out for Christmas mass.  Sneaky Santa :)

Missing wawi, whose visa got botched :(

We opened gifts, half of which were for Keyla.  The joys of being a kid :)

The things I would do to always have a Christmas like this :)

Shakespear Regional Park

2015 Christmas Season had been extra special. Mami was here! And so were Tita Marenila and Tito Peps (April's parents).  I fondly call them the oldies, Keyla protested and said it was not a very nice thing to say. :p

Dec 20, 2015

We went to Shakespear Regional Park, all geared, more of psyched, to harvest cockles.  Armed with a, hmmm, plastic bag, we searched for cockles.  It turned out you don't just go to the beach with the hope and desire of getting cockles.  

There's actually a thing called "tides" (no rocket science) hehehe that you have to consider.  And it was high tide when we got there, and high tide always means no-cockles.  Bow.  Sayang effort and hopes! :)

With my beautiful mami...

What's not to love?  I will never get tired of these...

the following pics are from kuya's cam:

kitang-kita, the label on the frame says 'Shakespear Regional Park'

Picnic!

The closest thing that we could get to 'swimming' in the beach.  Still too cold that time :)

The napurnadang cockles picking.  See that white plastic bag?  That's where we intended to place our cockles harvest.  Hahaha!