bataan is another city in the philippines. we made plans with my dad's family to head out there cuz my tito fred's family has a private resort. just a nice day to chill, catch up with the family and have fun. well let me tell you about the whole day.. i woke up around 630 and got ready to go to makro (their version of costco) so we can bring stuff to bbq and drink and what not when we're at the resort. we get back and i meet my tito ellis and his daughter, zam (she has such pretty eyes.. her eyelashes are so beautiful!). then we head out to pick up my tito matthew.. then uncle elwin, his son, elgin, tito edric and then ate zel. a bunch of people. then we meet up with tichie's (tichie is what i call my dad's sister) family at a gas station so we could all head out to bataan together. on our way there our van started making a funny noise so we pull over and the men try to figure out what's wrong with it but didn't know. since we were on the side of the road, we figured we need to get off and find a mechanic. we didn't have any tow truck number to call or anything so tito fred's van towed our van. we get to this toll and pay then they tell us to park on the side. some officer's come out giving us crap saying that it was illegal towingl. so the adults give them a piece of their mind (mainly titchie and uncle elwin).. every now and then aldrich (he would be my cousin, btw) would tell them theyre stupid and at one point they said they were gonna give us a ticket for the illegal towing and drich responded with "a ticket? i'll slap you with money!" (but in tagalog). i couldn't help but laugh but i was surprised with my cousin's temper. hadn't seen that side of him before. but the officers didn't do a thing. it was crazy. thennnn tito fred drive with the kids and tito ellis to find a mechanic close by while the rest of us wait in the heat. finally tito ellis walks back and we end up walking to the mechanics in the extremely hot weather. i thought i was gonna die. we wait for a while to figure out what we were gonna do exactly then come to the decision of having tito fred drive the women and kids to bataan while then rest of them men fend for themselves and get to bataan some other way later on. lol. it's funny now that i think of it all. but yeah we meet up with some of the other family then head to the resort. it was nice there. i'll put pictures up when i can. for now here's one of my ohhhh so cute baby cousin, sam. she is ADORABLE!!