Philippines, Day 6: Chinatown and More

Tuesday found us back at the dentist’s office again. This time Jennifer and I both had our teeth checked. We sat around for awhile and then we finally went down to meet [someone whose name I can’t remember] again.

This time we went to Chinatown. The first thing we did was have our picture taken in a kalesa [a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage]. While we were in Chinatown, I saw some interesting things.

I saw: a street cleaner dumping garbage into a river, an area where Chinese Catholics could pray and burn incense, and a sign advertising ice cream cones for 5 pesos (nine US cents).

Next, we went to the 162 shopping mall, a couple blocks away. Once again, I was amazed at these Filipino malls. They

Philippines, Day 5: Nothin’ Much

On Monday, we went to Uncle James’ dentist office. Not much happened otherwise.

[Note: Hahaha…that was literally all I wrote for that day. We obviously didn’t do much at all that was worth recording. So anyway, due to the lack of stuff to read, I’ll include several pictures that I haven’t shown yet in previous posts.]

Meals:
Breakfast- Rice, rice pilaf, chicharone, barbecued rib, hasa-hasa, pan de coco, an egg, mango, pineapple, Milo chocolate milk, sweet rice

Lunch- Rice, fish and chicken, mixed vegetables, choco roll

Supper- Rice, shrimp soup, crab, fish, squid, oyster, Coke, mango salad (green mangoes, tomatoes, purple onions), yellow mangoes