tagged together in 24 photos in 2012 meredith + best showing 2012 only · show all years Me and a couch full of New Year's babes. (Mer's face is priceless). After coming back from visiting his family late on Sunday night, Doug stayed at our place one last night before heading back to Finland! Saying goodbye to Meredith & Maddy. Friday was Doug's last morning staying with us. We send Maddy in to wake him up! Haha. Birthday friends who came out late on a Wednesday on short notice! ;) We found a fire pit near the barn and got ourselves a nice campfire going. ...and a whole roomful of people he knew yelled SURPRISE! ...head to a bar right down the street to meet up with these two to see.. Happy birthday, Caiti! Fraggle treating us to some hot, carved-bamboo jazz flute. This invariably led to more physical violence. Warming up and drying off between dives! ...we ran into pack of beach puppies! Meredith, in her safari dress, sailing the blue Visayan Sea. (This is one of my favorite photos of Meredith.) Meredith and Amanda out in the unreal, bath-warm water. Later that evening, we went out for a late night dinner on the strip. Fun motorcycle sidecar taxi ride. Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel for an early night jammy party. ...over to the hotel to meet up with Amanda! Amanda had been in Hong Kong and when she'd heard that we were going to be in the Philippines, we'd planned to meet up! Private room at Sing Sing on a Saturday night. Prime time! Ok, I'll admit it... Pile on! For our last evening in town, we went out to an awesome Mexican dinner with my parents and Bruce and Elyse!