Thrillas in Manila

    What's up y'all??  Please be patient with us and our blogging game.  We are getting about 4-6 hours of sleep at a time and we argue over who's turn it is to do this.  In fact tonight one team has a 2:30 A.M. wake up call. 
    We left Seoul for Manila.   The Philippines is a cluster of islands the size of maybe Calfornia and the population of nearly the entire continental U.S.  We have yet to see trafffic that we complain about anywhere in the U.S as we saw here on a Monday morning  We were only in the Philippines for a short time and here is what we did: we first vited a hospice and we donated a few supplies that were needed and we could quickly get our hands on from a local pharmacy.  They wanted lactose free milk, baby formula and Pedialite.  We took a short tour of the place ,which was very uplifting and sad at the same time .  We are blessed belive me. 

We then went to a local mall to try some local delicasies tht we found were not to our liking, but we were glad we tried.  This is lechon, roasted pig or fat with meat.

After leaving from there, we went for some "foxy boxing."  The cab took us to a creepy joint where "ladies " "trannys" and midgets box.  The place was a dump and when I opened a beer the waitress even wiped the bottle for me.  But we got a funny picture:

     The next day we negotiated with a previous cab driver for a "three hour tour, a three hour tour" to a  sea side town for some "R and R."   We swam for a spell, had lunch and massages and then high tailed it back to Manila.  We then went to a gun range in the basement of a mall.  Once again scary due to the cheap ammunition and locally made "guns."   We then visited two local churches after walking through some suspect neighborhoods.  We even took a local means of getting around in a very funny by stateside standards vehicle called a jeepney that are decorated with various paintjobs and have names like "Playboy" and "Transformer."  We are not writing that much tonight due to a lack of time and sleep.  And besides pictures speak a thousand words.