Philippines Trip Day Three

On my third day in Manila, it didn't seem like we did much but we were busy the whole day. We got picked up at 9 by one of Tita Oma's coworkers, who took us to her office in a Jeepney. Neither Joe nor I really knew why we were going there, but we learned to just take things as they came and not ask questions. When we got there, we realized we would go to the airport to get Joe's mom at 11. In our free time, we took a walk to the bay. It was nice to see the water, even though it wasn't very pretty!

Joe is a pretty funny guy, so when I met his mom for the first time outside the airport, he said, "Mom, this is Marge, my wife." She laughed. Then he followed that up with, "And she's in her second trimester" as he proceded to rub my stomach. Apparently, Joe does this with lots of his friends back in LA, so it wasn't strange to her!

Between picking up Joe's mom and his friend Kenny from Japan in the afternoon, we went to the duty free store. This was like no duty free store I'd ever been to! It wasn't even in the airport! It was like a regular department store, but it was 2 stories. It had everything there! I could have gotten some nice things had I wanted, but instead I opted to get the essentials- toothpaste, conditioner, and peanut butter! His family again refused to let me spend the $10 on these things! And I tried really really hard to pay!

After getting Kenny from a different terminal, we went back to Intramuros. Later, we crammed 13 people on the family Mitsubishi. I'm not even sure how that is mathematically possible! There were 6 in the back trunk area (all the middle school boy cousins), 4 in the middle, and 3 in the front seat. Wow. I wish I could have gotten a picture of that! We were off to Star City, and thankfully dropped some people off on the way.

Star City is a large amusement park/arcade with a roller coaster, bumper cars, ferris wheel, karoke, food, meri-go-round, climbing wall, haunted house, kids rides, games, etc. So it was the 6 boy cousins, Joe, Kenny, and myself. Just one of those 6 boys had more energy there than Joe, Kenny, and I combined. I felt old! All I wanted to do was sit down and rest my feet! Thankfully I had a chance to at Dr Fish, where the fish in the tank came to eat the dead skin off my achy feet.


The tour guides:


Here is the outdoor portion of the park:


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