Junior's 18th Birthday!

Celebrating Junior’s milestone 18^th birthday at Buckaroo’s - SM Fairview

When your eldest child reaches legal age, it’s a landmark event for my son and us his parents.

Quite the practical and reasonable son, Junior didn’t ask for any profligate festivity to mark the occasion. Not even a home party with classmates similar to the one he had last year. However, he did ask that we augment his savings to buy a much coveted china cymbal, something acceptable but also something he would have to wait a lot longer for to materialize.

For the meantime, I felt he deserved at least a generous dinner celebration with our whole family.

So, onwards we went to SM Fairview’s New Annex where we dined at one of its latest restaurants, Buckaroo’s. Armed with an array of grilled, barbequed and fried Western favorites, one is transported back to the time of cowboys in the new frontier where food servings were presumably big. Likewise, the food platters we ordered had sizeable amounts of different viands. Try out their grilled pizzas, steaks and burgers which appear to be their main specialties. A double patty Auger Burger at 185 pesos is highly recommended. The only fly in the ointment during our meal was just that, a dead fly we found in one of the pasta bowls, which they promptly replaced with a new one.

Buckaroo’s western theme is expressed through its framed wall posters

After that hearty dinner, Sonny Boy, Joshua and Faith played computer games at one of the Netopia branches of the mall while Junior assisted his mother and I buy groceries at Hypermart.

We ended the evening with a nightcap at Starbucks, one of my family’s favorite hangouts.

On this momentous day, my only wish for Junior (which is the same for our other children) is that he continues to mature and be a responsible and productive person who readily serves both God and his country.

Nightcap at Starbucks: Happy 18th birthday, Junior!