2nd to Last Saturday

Today we had our big trip to the Mall of Asia, the third largest mall in the world. It was actually disappointingly small. There is a big hypermarket which if you live locally must be just great as it seems to sell everything and there is a big SM department store (we have one across the road at Mega Mall) so the actual mall itself is very ordinary in size.

However, we did have a ball as we got to see the sea!!! Yay!!! After 4 weeks the Bay of Manila looked fabulous and the sea breeze was very welcome. We had a bit of a wander around the mall and then debated about whether we would stay on for the fireworks at 7 (it was about 4pm). We decided to have an early dinner and watch the sunset (which is supposed to be lovely from MOA) and then head home. By the time we had wandered to Italiannis and had dinner (the sunset WAS lovely - my pics don't do it justice) it was about 5:45 so we decided that by the time we had been back to the stand where Anthony wanted to buy a watch and then wandered back to the waterfront we might as well stay for the fireworks. We did and it was GREAT!!! It was only abotu 5 minutes but the fireworks were fab and ther were thousands of people down on the waterfront to see them. It was a good day!!!!






Vid of fireworks can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fAnZELG-hQ