It was Sunday morning when me and my husband woke up at 5:30 a.m.the most awaited day for all of us. We will be celebrating our first Family day at Ocean Garden Resort. Early that day we prepare first our food. I cooked pork adobo, Pork sisig, and lumpia Shanghai. We will have a church service first before going to the venue which I had already shared with you on my previous blog.
After church, we packed our lunch together, I also steamed the siomai my sister brought and saw to it that we brought everything needed. So we went together with our fellow church members, and each one brought food to share with everyone. As we reach our destination we gather all our things and foods on the table so we can have our lunch. It was past noon when we arrived at the venue and at exactly 1:00 pm we had our lunch together. We are 35 all in all each family had it's table since we have it reserved exclusively for us.
Food is ready for lunch
So much food to share, and everyone enjoys the food, we also have grilled bangus, grilled chicken, spaghetti, shrimp, roasted eggplant, sweet potato, cooked banana, cakes, and anchovies. For the dessert and drinks of course there was soda, buko juice, fruit salad, and a bucket of ice cubes to prevent from thirsty.
There are also uncooked finger foods for snacks. There you have butchi from chowking, tempura balls, and chropic.
Yummy foods
basketball time
After we ate our lunch everyone started to change their swimming attire. It's game time, We had our first game, a basketball per family, and then we had a water relay, a ball relay, and charades. Prizes are divided per group. After our games, it was time to enjoy swimming and fellowship. Our youth department had a swimming competition and a water volleyball.
water relay
Sitting with our babies
Singing time
By 3:00 pm we had our snacks with the finger foods and then went back swimming. From the youngest to the oldest everyone went on swimming. The water is not too cold and the weather is not too hot. Some are singing, and some enjoy sitting beside our puppies.
We take our pictures together and also with each family.
Family picture
Lovely family pic
As the day was almost done we called everyone for dinner so that we could clean and wash everything before going home. We can see everyone feels no tiredness within. After having dinner the ladies cleaned and shared the food that was left.
The day is over and everyone left leaving the voices of enjoyment but bringing the joy inside our hearts as we faced another week.
This is the perfect family get-together where everyone enjoys its company, not with gadgets but with fellow members laughing together and sharing thoughts in a joke. This is the opportunity where a parent and a child can have their time and talk about how is life going on. This is also the time when children can share something with their parents about school, work, or even relationships.
These are the missing parts of families nowadays, we live in the same house but we are far from each other. We ate together but there were no more deep talks. Children need to be guided by the interactions with family members but even parents take care and prepare everything for their children but have no time to talk privately. Our children share their emotions only on social media and with their friends but is supposedly to us as parents.
May we take the time to reach out to our children and family members, spend time with each other, and show them how much we love them? You only can spell love if you have spent time with them.
That is all for today my dear Hivers, may you enjoy reading this story. See you on my next blog.