Health Check Up

We were invited to go to Manila and have an executive health check up at St. Luke's. We decided to go earlier this year. Wow! Was it ever thorough. We had an ultra sound of every body part, x-rays, blood tests, mamograms, colonoscopy, etc. St. Luke's is truly a world-class hospital. While in the wellness wing, we met people from all over Asia and the South Pacific there having similar check-ups. The only sad part was that we had to fast several of the days (it was a 2.5 day check up) and it was hard to walk by Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen in the lobby. (We don't have any of those restaurants in our mission.)
While we were there we did get to go to the famous Balikbayan Handicraft Center in Makati. It is 3 floors with tons of handicrafts from carvings, to weavings, paintings, purses, furniture and jewelry--it is jam packed with tons of cool things.

 This is the view from our window, you can see how densely populated Manila is, in fact (according to Wikipedia) greater urban Manila is the 5th largest city in the world with a population of 20,654,307. But it is the most densely populated city in the world.

 Here we are waiting to check out of the beautiful St. Luke's Hospital.

 The famous Balikbayan Handicraft Center. This is taken from one balcony looking down on another floor. It is totally jam packed with wonderful native products.

 I loved looking at all the beautiful pearls and shell necklaces.

While in Manila we were able to spend some time with two of our dearest returned missionaries, who happened to marry each other!