Monday, 16 August 2010

Hsi Lai Temple









Fishing at Spooner Lake

So me and my dad went fishing pretty much everyday we were at Tahoe, we were at Spooner Lake on the Nevada side of Tahoe- we eventually found the right spot to fish and caught our limits. My favourite part, gutting the fish- I think I've got the butchering down now :)



Lake Tahoe

We woke up super early to leave for Tahoe, it's funny, the journey took pretty much the same time as it would take to fly to England.







A few pictures from the week I spent at Tahoe;







Sunday, 18 July 2010

Hollywood Sign [and animals]

As soon as I was out of bed getting ready to go out, nanny and kahlua decided to take over;



Alot of these are of yours truly :)


I thought today would be a good time to rock the High Voltage Hollywood tee


Me and my cousin Ate Yay

Driving back;



Stopped for some filipino food, Kambing [goat] and Dinuguan [pork blood stew]\


It's so delicious, looveeee it :D

Being here and being surrounded by so many Filipinos, it really has made me want to learn to speak Tagalog, the dialect that my relatives speak. From what I have heard it is very much like spanish and I hope it's easy to pick up on, ate yay is writing down some basics for me, which will be a start. Just being able to speak Tagalog will make me feel more like one of the family, it's really important to me to do this, just as it is for the rest of the family to keep speaking it. It is something they have taken from their home land and kept tradition and heritage alive. Although I'm not a native of the Philippines I can still absorb the culture of my people by learning how to talk like them.

A few of the family

The cousins, minus a few.



Micaela, Me, Megan.



The elders

Thursday, 15 July 2010

The poor lizard






The poor thing didn't have a chance the minute it ran into the garden. I was watching it from behind the window, Kahlua was drooling so much; I knew it wasn't going to end well for the lizard.

On the plus side, I got to take pictures of the aftermath.

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

The view from my roof







There's something about the sky, it just looked nice tonight.