On Feb 1 we had a Senior's activity.  We went to the American Cemetery.  It had displays of all the battles in the South Pacific and South China Sea area.  There were also thousands of graves with the name of a soldier on each cross.  The cemetery was erected after the Second World War in honor of the war dead from the Phillipines and other allied nations.  It is reminiscent of the graveyards in Normandy and northern France.

After we had looked around the cemetery for a couple of hours, President and Sister Hughes took us all to the Manila Hotel where they had booked a room in the Mabuhay Palace Restaurant (a Chinese restaurant).  The photo shows one table, but there were two tables of us.  President Hughes is sitting next to Leslie and Sister Hughes is taking the picture.  The guy with the beard is Mark, the Hughes son-in law, who was visiting from Utah with his wife, Abby, who is the Hughes daughter.

  We had dim sum and a variety of ala carte dishes...

...and for dessert we had a specialty of the restaurant.  It's called Salted Duck Egg Ice Cream. A website that we looked it up on said " "Saltish morsels of firm yolk colliding with toasty bits of black sesame seeds in a lush base..." It was really good!