Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

     This will get us up to date with the day of the week we are at now.

     Monday like I said we left Dibagat via vans and drove to Tuguegarao airport. Mostly uneventful which is what we wanted.  Flew back to Manila and all the luggage made it and back to the guest house we went.  Had supper and to bed to get some rest with all the images going through our minds of what we experienced.

     Tuesday most of us went to the American Cemetery here in Manila Philippines.  It is maintained by the Philippine government in honor of what the United States of America did for the Philippines to be liberated from Japan in World War II.  The following are some stats that I learned about.

Headstones at the Cemetery: 17,097                  Sets of Brothers: 20

Names on the Wall of the Missing: 36,286        Medal of Honor Recipients: 29

Cemetery covers 152 acres

 

After the Cemetery everyone meet at Mega Mall and the resturant Dad's.  That is where Nard likes to take the groups that come to the Philippines.

 

Wednesday the Presedent of the Philippines declared a Holiday so we didn’t have any plans.  Some of us road a Jeepney which you have to walk to a main road and flag it down and hope it is not to full.  We got lucky as you can see in the photo and it was not full at all.  We took it to Cubao which has everything from normal malls to open markets where you barter on price a little, and everything in between.  We had lunch when we were out and took the Jeepney back to where we jumped on and then walked back to the guest house. After a little rest we went out to supper with Nard and Rudy.  Thursday the group from Wycliffe is headed home and Friday Nard, and the rest of us are headed home.  Keep looking for more post from other people that went on the trip.  I asked them to write something when they had time to process everything.