Alluring Riverside, California with True Blue-Blooded Epsies

29 & 30 Oct. 2009 - I, wife Rose and daughter Dang were supposed to fly from San Francisco to San Diego airport at 3 PM flight via Virgin America, but we were get stocked at the long queue at the Xray-check area due to too many passengers. Hence, we missed the flight by few seconds after the aircraft closed, and have to wait for the next 6 PM flight instead. It took only an hour flying to San Diego. We were fetched in SD airport by Dang's friend and brought us to my frat/soro sister Mitzo Tolosa at Hemet City where we, together with Bro. Jerry and Sis Joann Corrales, took our sumptuous (Filipino) dinner while recollecting our good old days in UPLB.

After dinner fellowship at the Tolosa's mansion (yes, that's no exaggeration, it's a mansion), we proceeded to another mansion-like residence of Bro. Jerry Corrales at the Moreno Valley, Riverside CA where we stay for the next 3 days. And this weekend (Saturday-Sunday), our hosts will tour us to Las Vegas where we shall stay overnight in Excalibur Hotel.

At Riverside on Oct. 30, we just tour around downtown with Bro. Jerry as our tour guide starting at the Chinese Buffet Lunch enjoying Asian cuisine and exchanging pleasantries with Chinese waiters speaking little Tagalog (!) From the sumptuous lunch, our brother-tcomputersour guide brought us to the campus and botanical garden of the University of California Riverside (UCR) and then to the famous century-old Mission Inn.

We capped the day through a dinner-cocktail at the house of the Corraleses ala 5-star hotel with all those aminities like bar, pool game table, table tennis, music room, wide-screen monitor for video/tv, and what have you. Some bonus points for this night's happening were the arrival of Sis Mitzo and family (son and 2 grandchildren) and a long-lost brother Brod Jun Parfale whom I last met in UPLB back in the mid 70's. As expected, we talk nothing but the goood old days on the Gamma Epsilon, with some brethren (like Brods Noel Nagnot of LA and Rene Tolosa of Korea) joining us via communication gadgets like phone and internet system.

Above are some photos taken today (Oct. 30) at Riverside, California. (JF Blogs)