In total, almost 130 were killed and hundreds more injured.

When Jaclyn first heard of the attacks, she tried contacting her parents but couldn’t get through. After about 15 to 20 minutes, she received a text from the Airbnb rep they were having dinner with, letting her know they were OK. She did not hear from them again for hours.

They stayed in the restaurant until roughly 3 a.m. Uber cars were arranged and took them to their hotel. The Sagolilis were then able to send a message via Facebook to their daughter telling her they were all right.

The Sagolilis were told to stay inside until the morning. But around noon on Saturday, Nelson walked around the block “and everything seemed normal. That’s why I went ahead with the Lourdes’ trip. The Metro and trains were running,” he wrote in his text.

Jaclyn said she now understands how her family felt in 2013.

Her husband Ricardo crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon at 3:10. The first bomb went off around the four-hour mark of the race.

The Stouffville resident and his family were getting some lunch in the Prudential Center’s food court, which was next door to the finish line, when the first bomb went off, Ricardo told The Sun-Tribune just days after the race.

When the second one detonated 12 seconds later, people started hiding under tables and rushing for the exits.

The crowd pulled Ricardo towards the building’s Boylston Street door. He had to turn around to find his family, who were hiding by a restaurant.

They immediately left the building and walked about two hours to their car, which was in Cambridge. The subways were shut down.

When Jaclyn’s four-year-old daughter Jennette, who was in Boston, heard about the Paris attacks and that people were dead “(she) looked at me and said Lolo is in Paris. Is he one of the dead. Did he die?”

Lolo is Philippine for grandfather.

“Because of Boston, they are aware of these terrorist attacks,” she said.

Jaclyn said her parents were expected home Wednesday, which was their original return date.

– With files from Torstar News Service