My birthday is not until next week but since my wife and I are going on a cruise, we have to celebrate it early for my family. This past Sunday, we got a chance to see our cute little niece and nephews. The oldest nephew is physically challenged and needs to sit on a wheelchair. In fact he already had a surgery on one leg but the doctor could not perform the surgery on the other leg yet until the surgeried leg has healed. The doctor said that my nephew would need to build muscle first. My niece is at least two years old and the baby nephew six months old already.

Going back on my birthday, my wife did all the cooking and most of the dessert, we bought them at the fameous Cuban bakery/restaurant called Porto’s. What I like about this bakery is that you don’t see a lot of advertisement or commercials and yet everytime we go their, it is always jampacked! The lines are always long and they do serve a lot of cakes, pastries, meat products, etc. They have a Starbucks-like coffee shop, catering, etc. If you ever be in the Glendale area, this is the restauran/bakery that you don’t want to miss.

My wife cooked a mixture of Filipino and American foods. Foods like Kare-kare, Korean BBQ, spaghetti, “lumpia” fresh, eggrolls, chicken wings, fried shrimp marinated in garlic, etc. It’s a lot of work but the food taste really good. I think my wife can actually start a catering business if she wanted to but it is just too tiring.