Guest post of the week by Brittany Booker

This was going to be the year our small Texas restaurant owners had big plans to expand into another county. Our team was working so hard to make it happen with our budget in mind and our dedication to community first and foremost. We spent many afternoons and weekends searching out an existing restaurant space instead of building from the ground up. While both options had positive points, the idea of building when there are many spaces readily available felt wrong for us. In this economic stand still, it only made sense to make our mark in our new target county by filling up the existing space. During this time, our team worked diligently in making our budget work. We discovered surprising energy rates online at Texas Electricity Providers has the best Rates This created a perfect opportunity for us to cut our expenses and make the growth of our restaurant happen without putting us in the red for the year even before the doors opened. We will be holding our grand opening in the spring. We are all very proud to be a part of such an accomplished small business.

Wow, it's February once again. How time flies! I didn't make any posts here for the past few weeks already. I'm sorry for that. It's not easy to maintain six blogs. I wish I have some super powers to update all my blogs at the same time, lol!

The month of February marks the celebration of Panagbenga in Baguio City or in other words Flower Festival. Hubby and I are considering to go to Baguio to see the Panagbenga 2012. We were not able to go there last year because I was in the hospital. We were there the other year (2010) but then my auntie passed away so we didn't stay long.

The most memorable one we've seen was in 2009 and that was hubby's first time to witness Panagbenga. We just got here in my homeland from the US that time. I took hubby there in Baguio to see the festival. He got the chance to see the landscape contest, street dancing and float parade. We enjoyed it but the only drawback was the very thick crowd. Hubby don't like crowded places and he said next time we will just watch it on TV, lol! 

Here is the video that I took during the street dancing competition in 2009.