Evening at Mall of Asia

Monday evening Uche and I joined a couple from our church to go see SM Mall of Asia. Basically, if you haven't seen an Asian mall then you haven't seen a real mall! American malls are childs play compared to the ones here. Malls here have all the normal mall stores, food courts, restaurants, but they also have movie theaters and grocery stores. Mall of Asia has been built in the past few years since we were last here. We heard it was huge, and it was! It's the largest mall in the Philippines and the 3rd largest in the world. It sits right on the bay, so they've created an esplanade outside of the mall that borders the bay. It's quite an amazing place.




This in front of the only Olympic sized ice skating rink in the country. There's other malls with ice skating, but not this big. Every few minutes "snow" drops down from the ceiling onto the ice.


This is outside the mall on the esplanade.

This was taken from the skyway between the mall and the esplanade. It's hard for the picture to show how cool it is. The lighted Christmas tree changes color every few seconds.

Also taken from the skyway.

This is Uche in line for one of his favorite treats here in the Philippines. They are blended drinks with tapioca pearls in the bottom. So you get this really wide straw so you can suck up the pearls with your drink. I got mango and Uche got ube, a purple yam.