The Tres Amigas Sabor a Cafe

A SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN CHICAGO!

Date: September 22, 2008
Place: Phoenix Restaurant Chinatown

Yummy Dim Sum

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The Tres Amigas celebrated Susan's birthday last October 23rd at Sabor A Cafe in Chicago.

The birthday celebrant was treated to the most delicious Columbian dishes by Sofie.  Thank you, Amiga Sofie.  Thank you, my private chef Susan.  Ang sarap ng pork belly adobo mo.  As you know I only accept pork and beef with lots of skin and fat.  Or else, I'm not interested.  Nakuuu! I should think of all the hungry people.

Of course, being carnivorous to the extreme, I ordered this excellent Columbian steak.  Mura pa!  Kasi libre from Sofie.  LOL!

Mmmmm...this Columbian soup was sooo good!

Our pretty and gracious Columbian server.

Yummy leche flan.

I wonder what Susan wished?  Winning the lottery? Or.....

Then for extra dessert the Tres Amigas went to Mom's Bakery for halo-halo.  But kind of expensive - $7.00

Enjoy ang Tres Amigas.


Published  11/24/09  ust1611 multiply
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The UST MedTech Group Chicago Reunion of 2009 Day Activity

BUDZ BUZZ

The Reunion Highlights:

Friday, September 18....
The Group left Hilton-Palmer House around 5:30 p.m. and drove to Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin.  The Friday traffic was heavy all the way and we arrived around 7:10 p.m.  Our classmate Vicky joined another car with Mila A., her sister Alice, and their Korean friend Ruth - they arrived at the same time that we did.  Everyone was hungry and walked to the dinner buffet.  We finished eating around 9:00 p.m., took a lot of snapshots and then hit the slots.  Michael (Ampy's son), Mila of ALT and I won a little.  The others lost hundreds of dollars.


Saturday, September 19....
The Group spent a few hours at the beautiful Millennium Park.  We later went around Chinatown, bought ice shaver for halo-halo, and then drove to Vicky's house for lunch.  We made a short stop at Mariegold Restaurant - for Josie R. to see Milet, her kabayan in Bataan and the owner also.


We drove back to Hilton-Palmer House to take a short rest and prepare for the Spirit cruise.  We took a taxi from Hilton to Navy Pier (the parking garage rate at the Navy Pier is $24.00).  Our taxi driver charged us $11.00 when it was supposed to be $7.00 to $8.45 only.  I asked him why $11.00? He said there's many of you (5 of us only in his big taxi).  The others that rode in another taxi paid $7.00 plus tip - total of $10.00.  Niloko pa kami. Anyway, we all got there including Mila & Tony B., Ampy & Leonard and Michael who drove their own cars.  My high school friend Thelma G. joined us also and just e-mailed me that she enjoyed our friendly group and had a good time.  Almost everyone in our group danced non-stop.  My partner was Hedy and for quite sometime we were the only ones shaking our booties at the dance floor.  Mila B. told me that our Group's name was announced but she was the only one shouting yey at the table as the others were at the dessert table.  I did not hear as I was at the uppermost deck taking photos of the Chicago skyline.


Mila B. & Ampy dropped by at our hotel room to pick their reunion gift bag of Illinois T-shirt and Reunion CD (Music of Yanni, Sarah Brightman, Cliff Richard, ABBA, The Beegees, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, N'Sync, Everly Brothers, Ernie Ramos and I could not think of the other 3 singers right now).  The gift bags were given to out-of-towners only (none from Chicago) since they made the extra effort to join us.


Sunday, September 20....
We attended the 7:00 a.m. Catholic Mass at the newly-renovated Holy Name Cathedral.  After the Mass, we walked back to our hotel with in between stops for coffee as Ruby was on caffeine withdrawal mode and did some photo shots along State St., that great street. 
Aha! No plan is perfect and there's really no Plan B even though I always have Plan B & C in my activities.  Our John Hancock 95 brunch for 10:30 a.m. got busted!  We did not make a reservation because someone at the restaurant told Susan L. that reservation was not needed and just come there.  There are many sides to a story, not only two.  To be fair, probably the Hancock person did not know that there were 17 of us coming and 7 others joining us later.  Lesson learned: always make a reservation even if they say you don't need a reservation.  Vicky A. informed me that it's a universal rule that if there are more than 4 people to call for reservation.  Hehehe.  You know what folks, we live and learn new things everyday.  Another thing, don't ever change the program activities that were in place already.  This thing called "Change" is not good sometimes. Fortunately, the Cheesecake Factory was opened early and that's where we stayed and the latecomers (after so much cell-phone calling that there was a change of the eating place) until 1:00 p.m.  Nerie & Ruby left around 11:30 a.m. since they have a 2:00 p.m. flight to catch at O'Hare International Airport. 

All in all, the reunion hosts (Sofie, Susan, Budz1) were told everyone had a wonderful time in Modern Chicago.
On behalf of Sofie & Susan, thank you all so much for coming!

Palmer House, Chicago

Grand Victoria Casino Buffet

The Bean

Chinatown

Vicky's Place

Filipino Carry-out & Store - Milet

Spirit of Chicago Cruise

Sunday Mass at Holy Name Cathedral

Chicago Riverwalk

Cheesecake Factory

Prescy's Garden

Little Quiapo Restaurant

UST MedTech Reunion in Chicago Spirit Cruise 2009

Ampy, Mila, Budz1, Hedy, Tess Alcaraz, Lily, Nora, Vicky, Josie, Susan, Nerie, Ruby & Sofie 

All of our batchmates attending our Chicago reunion are just counting the days.
They all have reserved/booked at the Hilton-Palmer House 17 E. Monroe, Chicago ($100.00 per night).

There are 15 "medtech players" and tag-along going to Grand Victoria Casino.  I have added Lily of New Jersey in the list.  I've e-mailed those coming to wait in the hotel lobby.

Nerie & Ampy asked what to wear at the Spirit of Chicago Fireworks Dinner Cruise: Wearing a nice dress or whatever is in-style and scarf (it gets cold in the evening) will do.  Please be there before the boarding time of 7:00 p.m.  Cruising time is from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

The weather in Chicago is just wonderful right now.
I was in Navy Pier last Saturday, September 12.  If we have time, let's go hot-air ballooning ($24.00 per person).
Thanks to Mila Sollosa, USTPMTBBAA Midwest VP, for wishing us good time and good fun!

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Millennium Park

Wedding Party

Michigan Avenue

Spirit of Chicago Cruise - Navy Pier 

Video  http://youtu.be/lfcFfJeHAj8 

 

High School batchmate Thelma as invited guest

Previously Published  9/15/09  ust1611 multiply

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