Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Kissing 2013 Goodbye


I'm in Manila now and for sure it's going to be loud and noisy tonight.  For it's NEW YEAR's EVE later and all sorts of fireworks will be filling the sky! Christmas lights will be blazing (like this one from my Instagram account...follow me at @nina_santamaria).

Allow me to look back and be thankful for the highlights of my year:

The launch of my work portfolio & design blog in January 2012, www.GrupoSantamaria.ph

Going back to Siargao in April (#faveplaceonearth) 
Siargao pic by Charlie Gomez

 Bali in May. To read about that epic trip, click here.


Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte with my family. No surfing but plenty of SUP-ing.


 And then...there was Paris in September. Paris where everything was perfect. 

Beautiful places on earth.  Seeing these cities and hanging out with old & new friends enriched me and filled me with so much inspiration!

And then, I just came back from another favorite destination, La Union.  I couldn't have asked for a better way to end my year.  It was not my best year, for I got majorly sick in many ways...but for four days I was just so grateful to be able to still go to the beach, enjoy nature, hangout with my friends, and still ride the waves in the ocean, even for just a few times each day.  I usually seal my year with surf (click HERE), now sharing with you images from the last days of 2013...memories I'll cherish for a loooong time.

Photo from Coast Thru Life. 
chilly weather, beach December


Buji & monkey-Nikki at our fave break

crossing the highway to get to El Union Coffee (best coffee in town!)

met my new goddaughter for the 1st time
I went to Sunday mass but got there early.  
I decided to have merienda outside the church and met Lola Irene--
she is 82 years old and told me her secret to a long life was eating a lot of vegetables! 
God's way of reminding me to watch what I eat.  

quality time with Mia & Carla...and Barry the wagon
watched "HUGO" outdoors and under the stars
(follow @flotsamandjetsamhostel)

vigan longganisa pizza
OMG.
(words aren't enough to describe how insanely yummy this is)
Carla, Joncy, & Marco taking a kitchen break and showing some holiday spirit
With best bud Nikki. We're smiling and you know why.  
perfect weather. photo by Kim Jones

You surprised me to no end, 2013.  Thank you and goodbye.  
I can't wait to live each day of 2014. 

 “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” 

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