I went to the Philippines a couple weeks ago, what a great place. I spent a couple of days in Manila and four days on Boracay Island. Manila is crowded and I was a little nervous. In the areas that were nice, they had many police walking the streets with machine guns and bomb sniffing dogs. The locals did not seem to mind, so I guess they are use to that. The Mall of Asia is soooo big, I spent the whole day there and don’t think I saw it all, got lost so many times, but found a Dunkin Dounuts so I was happy. Boracay Island is beautiful, just a great place to relax. I saw many tourists, mostly from the UK and Germany. The best thing about the trip is that the dollar is still very strong there.

 Jeepney, Philippines mode of public transportation. There are thousands of them and people seem just to jump in the back and jump out when they want.

 Boracay Island is beautiful. Little shops up and down the beach. They just added a starbucks. The weather is always humid and the water is always warm. Many tourist from all over.

The biggest mall in Asia and the biggest I’ve ever been too. They have an ice rink inside.