We tried to kill some time by visiting the Manila LDS Temple and the American Cemetery. We had to pay the taxi driver 200 pesos/hr (okay, so that's only $4/hr) to wait for us at the sites (with our luggage). From what we had been told, traffic in Manila would be awful and it could take as long as an hour to get to and from the sites we wanted to visit. Well, that was not our experience, we were back at the airport by noon. We pulled our luggage into a small restaurant and sat down on the MOST uncomfortable chairs I've ever sat on! The next 5-6 hours were going to be very LONG!
We ordered our last mango shakes and then ordered another!
I borrowed Amy's ipod and watched Transformers while Amy read (though I caught her sleeping). The hours crawled by!!! And the chairs were still very uncomfortable!
Waiting, waiting, and more waiting.
Finally the time came to check in and guess what we did....we WAITED!!! It was an awfully long line! We had our passports checked at least seven times and had 100 stickers put on our luggage. On the other side of security there were stores to shop at and things to look at. Why couldn't we have done our waiting on THAT side of security? At least we weren't sitting any more. About 30 minutes to boarding time we headed to the gate. We bought dried mangoes with our last few pesos and (after having our bags scanned and our passports checked AGAIN) sat down to WAIT to board the plane. And we waited, and waited, and waited. Our flight was delayed nearly an hour.
It's amazing how tired out can get from doing nothing. As soon as the plane took off we were out cold! Fortunately, we got some sleep on the flight to Honolulu!
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