Terrible Traffic in Eastwood During Visita Iglesia 2015

If you drove through Eastwood yesterday, I bet you were cursing under your breath, because the traffic was so bad because of the road works! To make matters worse, there are three churches within that area which people would visit for the Visita Iglesia - Christ the King, Padre Pio and the church inside Eastwood. We only visited the first two kasi pagod na my feet if we were to walk pa inside Eastwood for church #3.

Since it was impossible to bring my car to each church and have enough time to finish the whole Visita Iglesia, I just decided to park in Greenmeadows and told everyone the bad news - we have to walk to both churches if we were to avoid the traffic! Anyway, since penitencia din naman ang Visita Iglesia, pwes, maglakad na lang tayo.

The queue of cars entering Padre Pio church was soooooo loooooonnggg parang one hour ang waiting list bago ka makapasok. I think some people parked at Shopwise. We saw some of our gymmates do that! Even then, natrap ka pa rin sa C5!

And I swear dumami talaga ang middle class sa Manila kasi I've never experienced a Visita Iglesia where parking was going to be a problem!! In my 2008 Visita Iglesia, I swear I could park near any church we visited and the most walking I did was half a kilometer - and that's all the churches na!

Today, my God, kadilakad to the max - and since high blood na ako and diabetic pa - plus all my other conditions, I had to keep pace and just pray I don't faint from the heat and the long walk.

To amuse ourselves, we decided to take pictures of the house we like. Funny thing is, we all liked the same house!

Visita Iglesia: Christ the King for Stations 1 and 2 of the Cross

Out on a whim, my friends and I decided to do the Visita Iglesia this year, since I kinda missed doing the thing, kasi the last time I did it was way back in 2008 pa and boy, things have changed a bit na pala!

I was amazed at the huge turnout of people! Something which I did not see before in 1999 and in 2008! There were just so many people in all the churches we went to!

The first church we went to was Christ the King in Green Meadows. I haven't been to this church since 1996, when a friend of mind got married here. I was shocked to see that the whole place was crowded with cars so we had to park very near the Jollibee na in the corner of C5 and Greenmeadows Ave!

It was a bit of a walk but it was ok since there were so many nice houses around we joked around wishing we lived in that house. Yun lang, I remember, I never had to walk this far during my first two Visita Iglesias! Good thing we started at 5PM na so the sun was just setting and it wasn't so hot anymore! Otherwise, nganga kami sa init ng araw since yesterday was a very hot day!

The real reason I chose this place kasi it was the church nearest to the Padre Pio church, which was really the church I wanted to visit - it was our church #2 in the list.

Anyway, this Visita Iglesia was very instructive in a way because of the choices of the church we went to. Admittedly, the first three churches we went to had the upper middle class to middle class crowd in them.

You can see it in the way people queue and the smell and the way people dress as well. There was a sizeable crowd in each church but it was orderly and not chaotic at all. Translation - not much fun because there weren't too many unique characters to see!

We did the first two stations here and proceeded to walk to the Padre Pio church which is about 2 kilometers from Christ the King.