Dexterhorn's How to get your Filipina to the US

PHILIPPINES VISIT #2:
CHOOSING MY FIRST WIFE

I really wanted to have that warm and affectionate relationship in my life. Someone I can come home to and share my life with, not to mention a woman I can make love to on a daily basis. So, September of 1994 I headed back to the Philippines to pick out my bride. I called up my parents in Las Vegas and told them that I may be coming home with a wife from the Philippines. My mother gets on the phone and to my surprise was very happy that I was going to get married to a Filipina woman. She went on to say that all the Filipina women SHE had ever worked with were always pleasant, obliging, and polite. But she also added that I should try to find a Jewish one. My mother, you gotta love her! My dad gets on the phone and just wants to know if my car is running o.k. I remember asking my dad once, "Why do men die before their wives?" He quickly replied, "because they want to." Now you know where I get my humor. Just picture Jerry Seinfeld's television parents in your mind. Now you know what my parents are like. The funny thing is, my parents have never watched Seinfeld.

I also telephoned Mac and told him I was leaving for the Philippines to pick out my bride. He laughed and wished me good luck. All he wanted to know was how many condoms I was bringing with me. So between my parents and my friends, I was well equipped mentally with some pretty sound advice.

I notified all three girls that I was writing to, and told them to expect me around the first part of September. Rowena offered to pick me up from the airport with her family. I figured I would stay with Rowena and her family for a week or so and then visit the other contestants I mean potential winners I mean possible wives. (This is what I get from talking to Mac)

I arrived in Manila at about 10:00 p.m. Rowena, her father and her sister met me at the airport and drove me back to their home in Caloocan City, Manila. I remember sitting in the front seat of Rowena's father's pick up truck. Her father was driving and Rowena next to me in the middle with her sister in the back of me.