We had planned to visit apartments in Pasay, but it turned out that those missionaries were to be in for interviews today, so we were left with an unplanned morning. A package showed up in the office for a missionary in the Cavite Mission, so we volunteered to drive it down. It turned into a three-hour adventure, largely because they have things here called "flyovers" where ramps take you up and over a busy intersection. We didn't entirely understand the GPS instructions, so made one intersection three different times before we found the right route! Repeat that at a couple more huge intersections, and you get the idea. We were driving quite a distance, anyway, to a city called Alabang, if you want to look it up. The mission home there is in a secured subdivision where you have to surrender your driver's license at the guard house, to retrieve when you leave. A very beautiful subdivision, though, one that calls up what I used to think of when I heard "Philippines"--lovely tropical architecture, lots of palm trees, wide streets--in short, a very wealthy subdivision. I would be most happy to live there.
Home by noon, then contractors (this is a loose term) arrived to install bars in our and the Thelers's windows. David went up to their apartment and sat with the workers until about three, when they showed up here to do ours. The quality leaves a little to be desired, but we now have bars on our front windows. They left shortly before five to return tomorrow for touching up the paint. We ate and then took a walk on the beautiful roof of our building, where it was cool and tropically romantic, probably because it was dark and you could see all the city lights around. Must be away early tomorrow.
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