Larry Memmott's Blog

We took Aliciya to “Breakfast with Santa,” organized by the Embassy Employees Association.  She had a great time.  Here are a few pics. At a birthday party that same afternoon for one of her friends, Aliciya got to try out being put into a soap bubble – she did it with her friend James.

Continuing the theme of balls, here is a photo from the Marine Corps Ball.  The Marine Corps Ball is an important embassy tradition.  Almost all U.S. embassies worldwide are protected by a detachment of Marine Security Guards.  Every November U.S. embassies around the world hold Marine Corps Birthday Balls to celebrate the founding of the […]

July 16, 2008 This is one of my favorite photos from that day. One thing Dive Link really did up big time was the lunches. They were full hot meals, even on the beach. A bit too much for me, really.

July 16, 2008 We spent the next day at the beach. We hired a boat at Dive Link to take us to Malcapuya Island, about 40 minutes by banca. Malcapuya Island has two nice white sandy beaches which we roamed and played on all day long. It was beautiful. Although the front beach was nice, […]

July 15, 2008  Our second day of explorations in the Calamians took us to a protected zone for snorkeling and then to the hot springs on Busuanga Island.  First, we went to the Siete Pecados, or Siete Picados (perhaps the Filipino version of the Spanish Siete Pecados, which means Seven Sins). Everybody had a good […]

August 19, 2008 My beautiful Tatyana celebrated her birthday (she’s 18, I think) on August 19. While I’m catching up with the new blog, I’ll put in a few photos from that day. We went out for Indian food to celebrate.

July 14, 2008   Alexandra, Christina and William visited us in the Philippines in July and August.  We had a great time.  We traveled to the Calamian Islands to do some tourism and a little diving, since Christina and Alexandra got their PADI diving certifications when they were here last year. We stayed at Dive Link […]