June 14, 2010 –It was a holiday Monday in Manila in commemoration of the Philippine Independence Day (supposedly celebrated every 12^th of June).  What better way to spend it but to hang out with Madz, Pearl and Issang …and Bubba of course! 

Madz and Pearl wanted to join this __________ so we spent the afternoon doing the prep and shoot. 

Before meeting them around 2PM, Bubba and I stopped by Serenitea to get 5 orders of Hokkaido or Okkinawa for the girls and us.  I think we’re trying to pass our tea addiction to other people, but more than anything, we just really wanted to share our favorite cold tea drinks from Serenitea with our favorite friends. 

Serenitea Orders:

(2) Two Hokkaido Milk Tea with 100% Sugar

(1) One Okkinawa Milk Tea with 100% Sugar

(1) One Okkinawa Milk Tea with 1 Splenda (mine but now I can take 0% with no splenda)

(1) One Okkinawa Milk Tea with 3 Splenda (Bubba’s)

(3) Three Fried Potatoes

Pegging our costumes was fun.  Stylist Issang helped Maddie out with hers. 

Janey as the chic traveler, Madz as the Jap student/cos-player,

Issang as the trad geisha and Pearl as the cutest ever!!! 

Not long after, we were treading along Manila trying to locate where the ____________ is.  There’s an entry fee of PHP 5 per person.  Sunset was closing in on us and we needed the natural light in the photos… just our luck, it started to drizzle so we had to shoot with a bit of drizzle while sweating bullets… what a catastrophe but it was a memorable and enjoyable afternoon.  We managed to pull it off… good job girls!!! 😉

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We went back to the studio and checked our photos on Madz’ MAC.  Too bad Issang had to leave early.  We ordered KFC delivery and ate our hearts out over never-ending conversations. 

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Photos after cleaning-up:

Pearly Shells, Janey and Maddie 😀

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Blurry Vision

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 This is it! 😀

Love you Maddie and Pearly!

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