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Celebrating July 23 in 2002 July 23, 2002. San Francisco, CA. I think we were on the way to SFO (SF International Airport) for your return trip to the Philippines. Or maybe you were stopping first in Los Angeles. My guess is we ate at Chinatown in the Richmond District in SF. Happy Anniversary po!  Helen & Tony Garcia celebrated their anniversary in 2002. Join us & help build a Fil-Am online community. Please leave a comment, and  click to follow our website  www.pinoybuilt.com. Join one of our sites in California: Los Angeles , Sacramento ,  San Diego , San Francisco ,  San Jose  or Vallejo . Need a SF Bay Area photographer? Go to JFPerseveranda.com .  

I was a pretty mean pool player back then, but I did NOT win one game on our first date! I'd find out later she basically grew up on a billiard table. Still -- I was very distracted! 😄 July 23, 1999: I had flown down to SoCal since Tess, her mom, and Bebot were staying with her big sister Mary Ann in Chino Hills, CA. I drove to the house in the afternoon. Tess was still working in LA with Mary Ann. At the house, it was only Mama Helen, Bebot, MJ and Josh.  It was Bebot's 11th birthday (and the day of her return flight back to the Philippines). It was also the death anniversary of my Lola Rosita. Those two anniversaries on July 23 would help decide whom I would marry. The photo below is actually from November 1999 in Quezon City (we were already married and hanging out with Ray Abenojar). Was it Timog? I usually take photos on 'first dates' just in case. I was just really "distracted" that night and did not take a photo. LMAO. In any case, our first date was a...