It was a 4-day weekend for me and the wife.
Both of us took leaves of absence on Friday and Monday on top of Saturday and Sunday not for vacation but for an intense 4 days of labor for the love of the Order.
Except for a cancelled flight that cut two hours from our District Convention program, everything went as planned and if we are to believe the feedbacks we have received so far, we did good.
There was tension though on how the Convention should be designed but in the end, we were guided accordingly by those to whom we are accountable to an outcome which seems to be appreciated by the Subordinate Courts who were spared further pressure and stressful preparations.
It should be the case since ours is a social organization, a diversion from our routine where we cast away our cares and enjoy life, not another calvary to crucify and punish ourselves.
We had a good time feeling Bagets again after being called from labor to enjoy the wine of refreshment which I let flow freely so the cups of the Sir Knights present will never run dry.
Food of course figured prominently and what is more fitting for a Friday reception dinner than having it at Aling Lucing's in Angeles City where the iconic sisig of Filipino cuisine was invented.
Even Anthony Bourdain came to dine and drink beer there and so did we before the managed buffet and long tables of Saturday.
The food toured with us on Sunday, starting with the CLSU president hosting a Filipino-American breakfast of tilading, beef tapa and eggs, pandesal and kesong puti, ham and cheese, and a salad bowl; and a lunch buffet of grilled liempo and bangus, fried chicken, chop suey and sinampalukang manok home-cooked by Ate Rose and Kuya Jason of Pantabangan Bonari Court No. 46.
Kuya Cris and Ate Mildred laid an impromptu fellowship of grilled wild tilapia, pork barbecue and beer after showing us around Pantabangan Dam, then a bunch of sweet ripe bananas for our afternoon snacks in Kuya Ading's work place at BFAR-CLSU.
We concluded with Thyme Street's usual menu of buttered prawn, crispy pata, kare-kare, lumpiang shanghai and chop suey in a despedida dinner tendered by Kuya Theody and Ate Elvie of Munoz Royal Court No. 17.
And then it was Monday.
The wife slept all day after taking the Grand Royal Matron and Patron to the airport while I reminisced on my 5 days of biking to prep up for the Convention, before plotting this week's route to celebrate the unfolding conclusion of our incumbency.
Both of us took leaves of absence on Friday and Monday on top of Saturday and Sunday not for vacation but for an intense 4 days of labor for the love of the Order.
Except for a cancelled flight that cut two hours from our District Convention program, everything went as planned and if we are to believe the feedbacks we have received so far, we did good.
There was tension though on how the Convention should be designed but in the end, we were guided accordingly by those to whom we are accountable to an outcome which seems to be appreciated by the Subordinate Courts who were spared further pressure and stressful preparations.
It should be the case since ours is a social organization, a diversion from our routine where we cast away our cares and enjoy life, not another calvary to crucify and punish ourselves.
We had a good time feeling Bagets again after being called from labor to enjoy the wine of refreshment which I let flow freely so the cups of the Sir Knights present will never run dry.
Food of course figured prominently and what is more fitting for a Friday reception dinner than having it at Aling Lucing's in Angeles City where the iconic sisig of Filipino cuisine was invented.
Even Anthony Bourdain came to dine and drink beer there and so did we before the managed buffet and long tables of Saturday.
The food toured with us on Sunday, starting with the CLSU president hosting a Filipino-American breakfast of tilading, beef tapa and eggs, pandesal and kesong puti, ham and cheese, and a salad bowl; and a lunch buffet of grilled liempo and bangus, fried chicken, chop suey and sinampalukang manok home-cooked by Ate Rose and Kuya Jason of Pantabangan Bonari Court No. 46.
Kuya Cris and Ate Mildred laid an impromptu fellowship of grilled wild tilapia, pork barbecue and beer after showing us around Pantabangan Dam, then a bunch of sweet ripe bananas for our afternoon snacks in Kuya Ading's work place at BFAR-CLSU.
We concluded with Thyme Street's usual menu of buttered prawn, crispy pata, kare-kare, lumpiang shanghai and chop suey in a despedida dinner tendered by Kuya Theody and Ate Elvie of Munoz Royal Court No. 17.
And then it was Monday.
The wife slept all day after taking the Grand Royal Matron and Patron to the airport while I reminisced on my 5 days of biking to prep up for the Convention, before plotting this week's route to celebrate the unfolding conclusion of our incumbency.
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