Trip to Enchanted Kingdom

August 2, 2009 - So the day has finally arrived for our trip to Enchanted Kingdom. The kids surprisingly enough were easy to wake up for our early drive. At first, we weren't sure if the event was going to be postponed because the weather wasn't exactly ideal. But we still pushed on because it's Enchanted Kingdom!!! LOL

Den was going to follow from school with her friends because they had a test scheduled on the same day. We just met her and her friends at the gate when they arrived. Ate Mel unfortunately got left behind because she was feeling under the weather. Too bad.

Let's hope there's another break for us!





When we got there, we headed straight for the Karting area because the competition was about to start. It was fun and looked exciting and I wanted to try it too hahaha After the first lap was done, Patrick qualified yahoo!!!


























I'll just give you the highlights of the rides the kids went on. The Grand Carousel, The Dodge 'em (bump cars), the Roller Skater, the Giant Ferris Wheel, the Jungle Log Jam, the Rio Grande Rapids and other rides for kids :)

The kids also got their face painted, ran around in the kids' playground, watched "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in 4D.

At the end of the day, we all took a picture with Eldar the Wizard and a lovely maiden :) We all ended up changing clothes because when riding the Rapids, expect to get wet, wet, wet!! hahahaha

It was a good day! It was a fun day!! Dana can't stop talking about the Jungle Log Jam!

Changing Stanely's Tires

July 30, 2009

When Patrick mentioned that he was participating in a Karting competition in Enchanted Kingdom and that we were all going to go with him, we were so excited and we couldn't wait for the day to arrive.

To prepare for the trip, we took Stanley (our car) for wheel balancing and wheel alignment over at the West Tyre Yokohama shop along West Avenue in Quezon City. W ended up buying two new tires for Stanley because his tires were rather worn out and that was the reason why air seemed to be escaping from the tires on a regular basis. We were just happy that we got a P500 discount for each tire :) That's already a big deal! :)

You can really feel how different Stanley feels with these new tires.. have to save up again to replace the rear ones :)

A New Desktop PC

One of the things on my wish list is getting a new pc. Granted our old one wasn't broken yet but it was on its way there. I have to thank my brother Allan for sending our old one but I think PC's only last 5 years until they start to deteriorate especially if you use it a long time. The monitor was the first one to give up, then the CD-drive, then the hard drive.. you get the picture?

Oh and when Den and I decided to clean the 3-in-one Dell printer, guess what? it won't start anymore - the flimsy cables broke sheesh.. we got a clean scanner but a dead all-in-one LOL

So, instead of just buying a printer on its own, we just decided to get a new desktop and maybe get a discount on the printer as well if we include it in the purchase. We scanned and browsed many shops and I even looked at reviews of cheap-priced parts on the net.

We finally went with Dynamic PC in Gilmore and purchased our new desktop from them. I have to give props to Dynamic PC and their crew, especially Gene. He was very helpful and pleasant and attentive and great with multi-tasking! LOL Here are the specs of our new PC: Intel Core 2 Duo, 500 GB Hard Drive, 2GB Ram, a video card (sorry I'm not tehcnical about this hahaha), a 19" Viewsonic Widescreen monitor, an F4280 HP Deskjet (3-in-1), the usual keyboard, speakers and mouse, a Samsung DVDRW drive.. uhmm what else??oh we bought a Hard Drive enclosure for our old drive, from a Dynamic PC store in North Edsa on a different jaunt hahaha

Kat's quilts

June 24, 2009

I am very grateful to my best friend Kat for making my kids these precious quilts :) I didn't know that she was a gifted quilt-maker, much less had the interest for it, but as you can see she really did a fine job!! I'm so proud of you, Kat!!! My kids love the quilts and are now a constant bedspread. Dana got a Lightning McQueen and Dylan got his favorite Dinosaurs.. Den also got a blue quilt but she didn't want me to take pictures of her on it LOL

Here are pictures of Dana and Dylan enjoying the quilts.. Oh and those clothes are the ones you sent Kat! :) they love them hahaha

Trip to Parks and Wildlife QC

As I was looking at my blog, I realized it's been a long time since I've updated it and so here I am trying to make up for lost time :)

Last June 24, we all went to the Parks and Wildlife in Quezon City. We got tired of going to the malls and figured we needed a dose of nature LOL The last time I went here I was a kid and look now, I'm bringing my kids!

We actually didn't know where to start because the place was huge so we just started walking and hoped it would lead somewhere LOL The first thing we came to was the mini-zoo where they placed rescued animals like snakes, birds and other creatures. We took Dana's bike so she'll have more time to ride it, but unfortunately, the rough terrain (yeah right!) broke it down LOL