We, first stopped here Sunday morning after stopping at Mc Donald's first for breakfast, anyway, this is supposed to be where Magellan landed. It was sorta nice to see it first hand. We all got out of the car and walked around and read the plaques. They had a nicer plaque which I didn't take a pic of, sorry. : )
There's my dad reading the nicer of the 2 plaques. It was nice imagining what all those big ships in those days looked like landing here. Meanwhile my dad read what it said to Branden and he listened. : )
Noah getting to get a good look around. : )
You know where we just were? The Magellan place? Well this is right above it. We stopped of since it said, point of interest. The view was nice.
Some old canons.
Taking a closer peek at the old canon. Ha ha ha! : )
Sitting on the old canon, ha ha ha! : )
This is "Bear rock" well because it's supposed to look like a bear. : )
And this is Telefofo fall's. Now I think I screwed up the name. Forgive me if I have to correct the name later. We'd never been here and wanted to come.
First was riding in the high cable car. The view was really nice from up there. : )
The fall's. Nice waterfall. : )
Some ducks. We fed them later when we bought some duck food for a dollar. Ha ha ha.
Oh, I have got to share this with you guys. They were giving small kids balloons. Anyway since we were walking in somewhat rough terrain, the balloon popped on something, coulda been a rock or some brush or whatever. But when it popped it scared the heck out of everyone around us, including us. All of a sudden this big, pop or blammo sound! OMG! So scary but sorta funny afterwards. Yup, that orange poodle was history!
My dad and Branden looking to see how many different country coins they saw. They also gave coins as well after they spotted a few different countries coins.
Has anybody ever heard of the story of the man. Japanese soldier rather who didn't know the war had ended and he was hiding in that cave for 28 years after the war ended? It is quite an amazing story. Very nice to be able to see this place. Poor guy.
Picture explaining how he lived in the cave all those years.
Pictures of the guy, after he was found.
His cave. Now I am not sure if this is a replica cave or if they are just doing upkeep on it or what.
The walk on this bridge was a bouncy one. Ha ha ha : )
It said that these shrines were put up around where many of the Japanese soldiers had killed themselves after the war. Sigh, it was all pretty sad. But also pretty informative to see it. It really made me think.
We all had bought some extremely overpriced water from the small store at the fall's. Cooled down since it was blazing hot. We chatted with some tourists a bit and then we hopped into the cable car to get back where we first started. And in this picture all the smiles from both the kids are because grandpa was fanning them with a fan. The fans were courtesy fans tied into the cable car. So the kids and grandpa were having some fanning fun! Just goofing around basically! : )
Still fanning! : )
After we exited the cable car we went into this "ghost house" thing. We didn't know what to expect.
So we gave it a go! : )
It wasn't scary at all. Sorta silly or dumb actually. We laughed through it actually. Good thing it was a walk through and nobody was working it. Stuff from the 60's or 70's. Very unbelievable stuff. Very corny. But fun. Branden wanted to walk through it again, but it was too long to go again. And Noah was unimpressed with it either way. That was it for Telefofo fall's. We popped back in the car and went to our next stop.
About here is when my battery was running low. So I left the camera in the car. We stopped at Fruit World. Man, we ate all sorts of fruit. Star fruit, pineapple, coconut, mango, just all sorts of stuff. It was an all you can eat fruit buffet. After that, we asked my dad if he wanted to swim with us, since it was still early. So we swung by my dad's place, he got his car and his swimming trunks and then we all went swimming for the rest of the day. For an early dinner we all went to the Food Court at the mall. I had a Korean plate lunch, chicken, rice kimchee and stuff. We all said our good-byes again for the night. And we again went back to the room, munched on some carrot cake and fruit cup. And watched TV, meanwhile the kids fell asleep and i had some free time. I decided I wanted to get a pedicure, so I called the Mandara spa downstairs. Made an appointment, got showered, kissed Noboru goodbye and told him I'd see him in an hour and took the elevator and went in for my treatment. : )
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