Historical Manila

So today we headed down to Intramuros, it is the old historical part of Manila. There are a bunch of Old Catholic churches and a Spanish fort that we went to. The fort was super cool; the Spanish were in control of the Philippines for around 300 years before they won their freedom. This is shown even in languages of the Philippines as it sounds a bit like Spanish and you can see it in many other area’s as well.

The churches were really cool as well, super cool architecture and a lot of history of the saints of the area. I really like old building and churches seem to have some of the most ornate and beautiful parts to them. I went with Jess and her brother and a friend named Abby, Abby know a bit about the history so it was cool to have a “tour guide”. We finished off the day with going to this park that has a big pond that travels the whole length of it. There were a few memorials there and one of them had guards around it and they were not allowed to talk to anything. Boring as job for them but it was pretty cool to see. We saw the whole changing of the guard thing and all that so that was cool.

Then another good dinner of fish, rice and some veggies that I don’t know the name of. But you know what? They taste good so it doesn’t’ really matter what the name is :-) That is something that I have learned, I usually just let Jess or her brother order the food and I just eat what is set in front of me. So far it has been super good so I am ok to let in continue that way.