Darnita goes swimming

Last April 16 – 17, the family went to Pansol (where my dad's friend has a private pool) to celebrate Papa and Kuya's birthdays. We were told we could use the resort from 6pm to 7am. The resort has three bedrooms upstairs, while the kitchen and dining area is beside the two pools (one adult and one kiddie with slide). And most wondrous of all, it has a videoke machine. ;-) As soon as we arrived, Meg, Cae and I chose our room (the blue one which has its own bathroom, the yellow and green rooms share a bathroom), changed into our swimsuits, and dived into the kiddie pool (the adult pool still needs filling up). I was wearing my blue two-piece and to release some of the stress I’ve been feeling lately, I decided to put on a cape (a towel of the same color as my bikini) and started posing around like a demented superhero. Cae named me “Darnita, the gay Darna”, while Meg pleaded, “Stop it, Tita. You’re scaring me.” Those two kids really love me. Since the others couldn’t swim yet, we held a videoke challenge while waiting for the bigger pool to fill. Unfortunately while Pinky was hitting a high note in "Broken Vow", the electricity went out and the blackout lasted two hours. At least we were surrounded by fireflies so we had some sort of light. It was my first time to see a real live firefly, by the way. When the electricity came on at 11pm, everybody pleaded to Pinky NOT to sing the cursed song again. The pool finally filled and we had a grand time swimming and singing till 3am. I was able to sing all the songs I knew in the two books before I gave in to sleep. The overnight outing underlined my grandma's alzheimer's though. She woke up disoriented and started crying, because she couldn’t recognize the people around her. She thought we gave her away to strangers. We had to introduce ourselves so she'd remember who we are. After a while, she remembered my sister-in-law as the one who has yet to have kids. Sigh. Of all the things to remember. We were allowed to stay till 10am since we had to endure the two-hour blackout, so we had more time to sing and swim. Another typical Squid family outing: a lot of bloopers, but a lot of fun. =)