Philippine Adventure - Day 3. Got puzzles?

Today was another great day on the other side of the world!

Dad gave his speech to the Microbiology conference and they all laughed and took photos and ooh'ed and ahh'ed and absolutely loved him. Apparently (multiple accounts confirm this), dad is a rock star in the Philippines and one guy from Korea said he was famous in all of the microbiologists in Asia! He was humbled and thrilled at the same time.

After dad spoke, he was a judge on some panels and other conference stuff (being famous, everyone wanted his signature) and Jeremy and I decided to brave the world and venture out on our own. This resulted in a little adventure with the end destination of a puzzle mansion. And no, not just your average  any day ol' puzzle mansion. This was the Guinness Book of World Records holding puzzle mansion! We kept following the signs saying the puzzle mansion straight ahead and kept walking.. and walking.. and walking.. Along the way we ate an egg roll from a street vendor (cost an enormous 15 cents!), and took alot of pictures. We walked off the main road a little and saw some beautiful views also.

Thankfully, a few miles down the main road, the puzzle signs said to go left, so we headed left and kept walking.. and walking.. we came upon a church with people singing so we went and said hello, chatted for a while, and took a couple of photos. I love seeing fellow Christians in other countries. After that we kept walking.

Finally made it to the puzzle mansion and looked around. Apparently this was a hobby of this lady (still alive) for the last 27 years or so. She just loves puzzles! We were hot and a cold drink was nice also. After looking around, we walked back about half-way (and grabbed some meat on a stick from a vendor that was fabulous and also a little bit of ice cream) and then grabbed public transportation back to the hotel - a jeepney: jeeps from WWII transformed into transportation vehicles still used in mass today. Kinda cool!

After jumping into a deliciously cool pool, we met up with dad, ate dinner with conference people (tried but failed to eat the salmon head soup... because when I looked at it, it looked back at me), and I crashed on the bed (it didn't help my energy level that I got a little sunburned) And so ended our day 3.

~Elizabeth

Looking out over the lake near Tagaytay

The repetitive encouragement we were going the right way

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