Manila, Philippines August 30, 2013

Today we walked Bonafacio High Street, a street filled with shops and restaurants.  We began our adventure at Bo's Coffee Shop...

We window shopped and just explored the area.  There was a 3D painting on the sidewalk...

No, I'm not about to fall on that crevice!  We made our way down to Market, Market Mall...

There is an open air produce/flower market at the entrance...

The mall itself is huge - 5 levels including a cinema...

There is an Ace Hardware and a Wendy's in the mall!  The grocery store is actually on the basement level of Metro Department Store.  We picked up a few groceries and stopped for a Jamba Juice on the way back to the apartment :)

Manila, Philippines 8/26-27, 2013

The flight from Atlanta to Seoul, Korea was very long but actually not too bad.  We had a two hour lay over in Korea...

The 3 1/2 hour flight from Korea to Manila was painful-I guess because we were so tired!  Our driver was waiting for us when we arrived, and we got to our apartment at Sebu Suites safe and sound.  

Edi went into the office on Tuesday - I took a picture of him walking to work from our window.  What a nice commute!

While Edi was at work, I did some reading by the pool...

We walked to High Street where there are shops and restaurants.  We decided on Italiano's for dinner.  After dinner we walked through Market, Market Mall and found a proper super market:). After a nice walk back to our apartment, we called it a day :)

Maggie Valley 8/15-8/18, 2013

Edi and I headed up to The Mountain Landing, our house in Maggie Valley, North Carolina for the weekend.  We had a great time - Kona really had a good time being able to run around chasing all kinds of critters :)  Friday evening we walked around Lake Junaluska and were rewarded with a beautiful sunset.  Saturday evening, we walked up 'our mountain.'  It was so cloudy we couldn't even see the top of the mountain across the way!  Back to Decatur rested and relaxed :)