Neng and Naomi at the Manila Zoo.
Roselle and Naomi at home and tired after the field trip.
still on the parapet, clowning around the statue.
The kids clowning around one of the statues on the park grounds. Naomi in front, Darwi, Roselle and Kenneth at the back.
Jose Rizal statue.
We went to Fort Santiago, yesterday. And I have to ask myself, why
hadn't we taken the time to go there before. This is not the Fort
Santiago we went to during my elementary school field trips. This is a
new modernistic Fort Santiago. More solemn, maybe, and a better park
and museum definitely. There are still maybe a kilometer of footpaths
off-limits, but definitely the improvements during the past 10 years are
worth it.
The group with the Jose Rizal statue in the background.
The gate to Fort Santiago
Group picture.
Mama, Darwi, Roselle and Neng with Naomi
Doy and Raul.
Posing on the park grounds.
It's my niece's birthday tomorrow (Monday, November 8). And instead of
a party or gathering at the house, my sister decided to have a field
trip instead. The original itenerary would have been Rizal Park, Sea
Wall, Manila Zoo, Fort Santiago and Intramuros. The actual route turned
out to be Sea Wall, Manila Zoo and then Fort Santiago. Afterwards on
the way home we had merienda at Sta. Lucia East Mall.
Kenneth with a grounds statue of a pinoy guardia civil.
Roselle, Kenneth and Lilia on the bridge crossing the moat to the Fort.
Along the walls of the Fort.
We were supposed to be taking a picture of the cannon...
Mama didn't want to walk too much...
On the parapet overloooking the Pasig River.
I was working Friday night up to 10:00am, and I caught up with them at
the Manila Zoo. After I had a quick lunch, we left and went to Fort
Santiago. Fort Santiago now looks more like a (touring) park than
before. As a museum, it is more focused now. Gone is Pres. Manuel L.
Quezon's presidential car. It has been shipped to Baler, Quezon, Pres.
Quezon's home town. There are still several areas which can be
reconstructed and made into individual museums. The entrance area (and
park) has been simplified. In the Fort proper, the focus is on Rizal,
his improsonment, and martyrdom. The historical aspects of the Fort
itself dwindles to trivia and thus serve more as backdrop to Rizal.
The first wave walking along the entrance to the Fort.
Raul, Tatay and Doy
The second wave...
We ended the day at home, watching videos. I was too wasted and too
sleepy that my eyebags had eyebags!
Great day though.
--andoy
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