My maternal grandmother turns 88 today! And we suprised the heck out of her! Hehehe. With Tita San at home, she was at Tita San's bedside practically the entire time. Mom coaxed her and said that Dr Bitanga was expecting Lola to treat him for lunch. And so dear Lola obliged....
In the meantime, The Clan (yes, that is us!) was congregating at Xin Tian Di at the Crowne Plaza. My dear brothers with the exception of Rondic (of course) were running late, as usual. Rod and Zhar were there ahead of us but they had a driver and we had to park the car, so no fair *wink*. A lot of frantic text messages and phone calls later, we had most everyone assembled at the restaurant.
Randy and Stella's story of getting to the hotel on time was pretty funny, it's worth mentioning here :). Their car had pulled up at the entrance of the restaurant when the black van pulled up behind them. Thinking the van had Mom and Lola in it, they told their driver to go to the side of the building and they got out at the Galleria side. They rush into the mall and hurriedly take ginormous steps on the escalator.....Stella was in HIGH wedge heels and I can tell you now that THAT was no easy task, hehehe. But she was game and ran up the escalators to get to the restaurant on time. No wonder she was a bit red in the face and was a bit winded. Hehehe.
Anyway, I call Mom and she said (within earshot of Lola) that she was just walking in to the restaurant where she and Lola were going to have lunch. I say "ok", shut down the phone, and tell everyone to shush because Lola is near the restaurant.
Our 88-year old matriarch walks in, we yell "Surprise" and nothing registers on Lola's face, hehehe. She said later that she thought someone else in the restaurant shared her birthday. Then recognition dawns as she gets closer to where our tables are and she starts laughing and pointing at everyone. Success!
Roby, if you're reading this, I would LOVE you forever if you send me some pics to upload for my blog and for me to scrap! :)
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