25th Anniversary dinner at Lunada Garden Bistro, Cayucos

I am going to jump around with my posts and the timeline a bit...why? Because I can dammit.

Bert and I celebrated our 25th Anniversary this year and took a family road trip to the Central Coast.

Instead of doing sad ass takeout and eating it in our room out of styrofoam containers...

Maui Day 1 - McD's for lunch, plus quick stops at Walmart & Safeway for local stuff

Sadly, because the Geste Shrimp Truck was closed on Monday...

we ended up going here...

Karangalan Scholarship Fundraiser dinner at Tidal (Spring 2017)

Although this is dated March 8, this was supposed to be posted back in Spring 2017.

Yes, more than 2 years ago.

I am going through my drafts and realized I never posted on this Filipino fusion dinner, so here goes.

The occasion was for a Filipino American scholarship fundraiser for my district...

4th & last stop for KD's birthday crawl - Dessert & tea at my house

After our foray into Little Italy for coffee in the rain, we headed back to my house...

where this was awaiting us...

Mutual Friend Ice Cream

Earlier last month we visited a new ice cream place,

which is located right next to Dark Horse Coffee in Golden Hill...

Stella Jean's Ice Cream

Next door to Pop Pie was a new ice cream place,

which is also owned by same owners of Pop Pie...

South Bay Food Crawl 2018 - South San Diego: TJ Tortas & Tacos + Oasis Ice Cream Parlor

We were winding down and planned to cut through this lot to get to Baja Oyster Bar across the street..

when I noticed this new signage...

Antojate Ice Cream

A few days ago, we went out to dinner with TC and the boyfriend...

and for dessert, tried this new ice cream place in National City...

An's Dry Cleaning Gelato

Our pre-anniversary dessert would be at this establishment on Adams Ave....

located in between  Hawthorn Coffee and Tajima Ramen...

TC has graduated and is college bound!

I still remember the day she was born...

fast forward to yesterday when TC graduated High School....

Portland Day 3 - Cloud City Ice Cream

Not too far away was this,

a colorful mural which signaled our next stop...

The new House Roots Coffee + a quick stop at THH before heading home

In another strip mall not too far from Ninong's Pastries...

is the new location for House Roots Coffee...

Mother's Day 2018 - Return to Que Huong & MNGO

We took our photos in our nice clothes for Mother's Day.

But now it was back to jeans and a nice shirt so we could be comfortable...

Tribute revisit with a friend + drinks and dessert at Holsem & Caffe Calabria

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of having a shared birthday dinner with a good friend...

I was just here last week with Bert...

Birthday crawl with MFH : Cafe 21 on Adams + Holy Matcha

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting up with my dear friend MFH...

I hadn't seen her since her birthday last fall and now that it was spring...

St. Patrick's Day - Coffee + art exhibit, breakfast, throwback design cap + capirotada

The weekend started off gloomy...

and rainy, but that didn't stop us from getting out for our weekend coffee...

Vampire Penguin, Sacramento

TC remembered seeing this dessert place in Berkeley (which has since closed as of December 2017)...

since there was a Vampire Penguin near our hotel...

House of Black (HOB) Coffee

Sam of Mostra Coffee had recommended a new coffee shop that opened two weeks ago...

Bert had asked if Mostra carried any more of their coffee from the Philippines...

Clayton's Coffee Shop

While mom was in surgery...

My dad, sis and I had a late breakfast at one of Coronado's institutions...

KD's Bday Crawl: Stop 5 - MNGO Dessert & Coffee Bar to end the day...

I remembered seeing the signage late last year...

I hadn't realized that Big Joy was gone so it was nice that dessert in some shape or form would at least still be offered at the Convoy Plaza strip mall...