1. Siyesta (what's the correct spelling of the name?) - I ate my breakfast here... I bought noodles and drank it, but I shared some with Denise and Melben.
2. Treats at Caltex- I bought Hot Chocolate, oh yeah my seat mate was sleeping on the two seats so I had to give him some time. He's naturally a deep sleeper.
Moving on to the list of places we visited in Manila:
:first was Ateneo de Manila University. All I did was hoping for a bath room, went to an Art Gallery and got back. Though I never really did find a bath room... You can imagine how many hours I have been holding that on!
:second was San Beda College in Rizal, but I never really did see any college, but we got the chance to see the AMAZING CAMPUS. I totally love the library! Oh yeah, and I finally got to the bath room. Ah, sanctuary! Did I mention the whole school building looked like the capus you saw in East High of High School Musical 1 and 2?
:third was... Avilon Zoo! I loved touching the owl and the eagle. It kinda made me think about the greatest creations God has ever made. So I'm pretty thankful for the trip from this point on here. On the way to the zoo, I ate my packed lunch with my seatmate and Melben, we sat together in just two seats, I guess we had pretty small butts to fit all three of us on the seats.
:Then the most awaited, MALL OF ASIA!!!! I immediately thought of the Shroud of Turin Exhibition here and was even more determined to find the place for the exhibition. We watched an Imax movie, a documentary about the wonders of the living sea creatures, narrated by Johnny Depp!!! I love his voice! It was dreamy and so calming... I have to say I did enjoy it, plus the parts when I screamed at one triler about a T-rex, but, that's another story.
Then after, me, Jen, Denise, and Pats went out together to find the ice skating rink, (with the thought of the exhibition temporarily off my mind) but instead of going the right way of the building, we went the other way instead and saw the place where the one and only SHROUD OF TURIN was!!! It was actually going to start at 7 PM, but we we realized we were going to leave at 7:30. (we already the paid the ticket before we got to know this, the price of the ticket for the exhibition was Php 250.00) But thanks to the daring of us all, Jennie Rose T. Lin a.k.a. "The Swimming Shrimp", hooked us up in a 30 minute VIP TREATMENT edition of the exhibition presentation. Did I mention I love Jennie?
I have to tell you some parts of the journey to the past where Jesus Christ was wrapped around the body with the details where He prayed for 40 days and 40 nights then was severely tortured to the point where He was judged under Pilate, was crucified then to His last words when he was hanged on the Cross, then to the miraculous point where He rose on the third day.
"Onto the the tradition of showing the Shroud of Turin for 3 to 4 times in every CENTURY" Surely, I felt blessed to see the sacred treasure that was left from the Medeival times, the world's most precious treasure, the most studied artifact.... THE SHROUD OF TURIN, it was a once in a lifetime experience.
They do not know if what was shown on the Shroud of Turin was really the face of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, but if you were to ask me, I would leave you the last words that was left onto the last of the presentation of the exhibit before we were to see the actual Shroud of Turin....
"When reason ends,
faith begins..."
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