Surprise Despida Party For Tess

Tess will be heading home back to the Philippines. She stayed for six months here in the US to visit her sister. For such a short time we became really good friends. By blood we are closely related by character we are compatible in each and every way. It's funny because we have known each other for not so long but we have develop a friendship based on trust, love and respect of who we are. Her sister decided to throw her a despidida party. We talked about it without her knowing. She slept in our house last Saturday. I made some food and she wondered why, it was something I make for special occasion. I told her I am going to share it among our filipino friends. She thought it was so sweet of me to be doing it without an occasion. Homemade embutido(meatloaf) and fruit salad, sounds yummy right?;-) When we sent her home she was surprise why there were lots of cars. I told her maybe it was just their neighbors. Then when we got in the house and everybody shouted "Surprise!. She was almost teary eyed. Her jaws dropped in surprise. Even one of the filipino priest was in attendance. She told me I was really good and cool in pretending. Hahaha! For sure she would miss us when she will be back home. We had a great time at the party. We had karaoke, long talks and took pics... a lot of them.;-) We will really miss you Tess. My family loves you so much. You know that!