Wednesday:
I spent all day at the church, helping with preparations, and finishing the slideshow for the wedding.
One way to get the church fixed up is to have a wedding there...and this one sure got it!!! Looked completely different after the guys were finished with it..
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| Tatay building decor stands |
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| Uncle and JR sawing wood for the decor stands |
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| Like the makeshift scaffolding?? Me too.... |
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| Lots of dishes to wash... |
Thursday:
We butchered the Wedding Reception baboy this morning at the cousin's house, and then the meat was transported to the church where it was processed, while the rest of us cleaned out the intestines, etc. to eat for lunch.
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| Preparing the pig for slaughter (it's legs were tied to a stick and carried onto the platform) |
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| The pig is smiling--it is happy to be dead. :p |
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| Scraping the hair off after scalding it with boiling water. |
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| Disection--yes..we eat all of it. |
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| Dissection/slaughtering team |
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| Packaging the meat to be transferred to the church for further processing |
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| Stripping the intestines of their membranes |
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| Cousin, Jojo, cousin, me, cousin, JR, Bordz and Uncle |
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| Cleaning out the intestines |
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| BBQing the organs, to be cut and eaten |
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| Cooking the boiled intestine to make Dinugoan--our lunch |
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| Kaon na--Cousin, Cousin, Jojo, me, JR, cousin, Bordz, Estoy |
After Kaon, we went to the church to help process the meat, and worked hard continuing preparations for the wedding.
As a reward, Jim Harris treated all of us out to icecream at Jolibee... We had a blast playing a game (similar to Down by the Banks of the Hanky-Panky)....
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| Playing the Filipino version of Hanky-Panky with Sylvette's family and cousins |
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| Elimination--down to JR, a cousin, Estoy, Toto, me and Bordz |
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| Finals came down to JR and I..and unlike kids usually do it in the US, they do a thumb war...much more fair and accurate...however, with a hand over a third larger than mine he easily won. :) |
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| Jollibee and Me |
It was a great day and an even better night..So much less stressful than normal American Weddings. We finished the evening off by picking up the wedding coordinators--2 of the Filipina midwives at Mercy, and then later watching Finding Nemo at a cousin's home and having Midnight Merienda.
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