Soul Highway

Pinays in DC

I have met a few Filipinas lately and Saturday night (January 6) we finally decided to hang out to, as one of the girls put it, break the monotony of being at home most of the time. Three of them come from Maryland. I decided to invite another girl from Woodbridge, Virginia who showed up at the meeting place with her husband. I also dragged along the husband who agreed without much protestation. All women seem to understand this: when it’s football night, men are glued to the couch and transfixed on the TV.

We played some pool at Fast Eddie’s in DC whose ground floor, us girls eventually learned, served as a strip club. Nice. After a few drinks we moved to Mister Days in Arlington, hoping to catch some live music and maybe get into dancing. The men in the group were in high spirits – the bar’s walls were appropriately adorned with TV sets tuned in to football.

With loud cheers in the background, the girls settled into a lively chat on life in the US, the cold weather, homesickness, marriage and such in two different dialects. There was talk of planning another get-together but we did go home feeling good about being able to touch base with fellow Filipinos. Nothing like being able to rant and rave in your own language. Till next time, girls!

Pinays on a night out: Cathy, Bernadeth, Elisa (all from Maryland) and Fleur. Lynden from Woodbridge was also there to party with us.

Sidebar: A more "mature" party was happening in downtown DC the night we went out. Familiar with "Girls Gone Wild"? I'm sure many men are. Well, we spotted their bus while cruising down the street and I snapped this photo for, umm, proof of some wild goings-on.

Posted by fleur at January 8, 2007 10:15 PM