Every Nov 1st, our family would go to Calumpit, Bulacan to see our relatives and visit the panchon to offer prayers to our departed loved ones. I don’t think I ever blogged about this so I’m doing it now—complete with visuals. (yay!)

The menu would always consist of: 1) longganisa calumpit, grilled fish (dalag and hito), veggies (boiled okra, eggplant and winged beans aka sigarilyas), buro and a menudo-like dish.

I also noticed that every year, they upgrade their sari-sari store. I remember years ago it was just a small tindahan. But know I’m amazed at the variety of things they sell. They even have this videogame booth thingy were you need to drop P1 coins to play.

Every nook and cranny has paninda.

Lola (I’m not sure tho if she’s a relative.) watches over the store. I’m sure she was very happy because my brothers, cousins and titos bought lots of junkfood.

Yo takes a picture of me while I take a picture of him

Jaybo doesn’t like his picture taken. (KJ)

I went outside to take more pictures.

More and more pictures.

After everyone had eaten lunch, we went to the panchon were we lit candles and said our prayers.

Black, Pink. Pink, Black.
(go figure )

We also take pictures of this particular tomb every year. His wife is in Texas and can’t have yearly visits so we just send her pictures while she sends us $ to buy flowers.

Because business-minded pinoys take advantage of occasions such as this, stalls and food stands are everywhere.

On our way back, I saw tita and my baby cousin so I also took pictures of them. (I also take advantage of occasions such as this to take pictures. hah!)

Super cute!

After Calumpit we also went to Sta. Maria, Bulacan to visit our relatives on my Mom’s side. No pictures were taken because I was already tired and busog. Aside from taking lots of pictures, I also ate lots. Today alone, I think gained 10 lbs. Lolz.

The end.

All pictures are at my flickr site