New Year - Manila Style!
New Year went with a bang, literally! as in Manila it's traditional to celbrate the New Year with lots of firecrackers (Brit speak = Bangers) and fireworks.
NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY
New Year went with a bang, literally! as in Manila it's traditional to celbrate the New Year with lots of firecrackers (Brit speak = Bangers) and fireworks.
NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY
In the Philippines it's traditional to spend New Years Eve with family and every year we all gather at Nanay's house and set off fireworks before a midnight feast. Unfortunatly my dad wasn't feeling too well and chose to stay at home in bed to sleep his bug/jetlag off but the rest of us headed over to Nanay's house to meet up wiht the rest of the family. It was great fun and midnight was magical, I stood there with Paul, Phia, Talee and my mum and all my Filipino relatives; surrounded by the bangs and acrid smoke of all the fireworks in the hot tropical air, wondering what 2008 would bring.
It's also traditional to wear spots to bring luck and wealth, and red and white spots are especially lucky - check out my dress, 2008 should be my year!
TALEE'S BAPTISM
New Year was really special this year as my parents had flown in from the UK to join us and we also decided to get Talee b
aptised while they were here. 
We had the baptism at lunch time on New Years Eve as we figured it was a great excuse to get the party started and so after the service at Holy Trinity Church the wine was flowing freely at the reception at one of our 
favourite restaurants, Good Earth in Fort Bonafacio. My parents had brought over the Bastide family christening robe (over 100 years old and originally my great grandfathers) so Talee wore that for the service and then changed into a traditional Filipino robe for the reception. Sadly not all the god parent
s could be there as most live abroad (Saff in NZ, Sam in UK, Cindy and Merisa in the USA) in addition Amy was vacation from Manila in the States but the 3 that were there more than made up for it. Melissa was the most glamorous Godmother ever in the cutest yellow dress, and Parick and Jordi make great Godfathers.
aptised while they were here. 
We had the baptism at lunch time on New Years Eve as we figured it was a great excuse to get the party started and so after the service at Holy Trinity Church the wine was flowing freely at the reception at one of our 
favourite restaurants, Good Earth in Fort Bonafacio. My parents had brought over the Bastide family christening robe (over 100 years old and originally my great grandfathers) so Talee wore that for the service and then changed into a traditional Filipino robe for the reception. Sadly not all the god parent
s could be there as most live abroad (Saff in NZ, Sam in UK, Cindy and Merisa in the USA) in addition Amy was vacation from Manila in the States but the 3 that were there more than made up for it. Melissa was the most glamorous Godmother ever in the cutest yellow dress, and Parick and Jordi make great Godfathers.
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