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| Needless to say, we were instructed to be at the pier at 12:00 noon, yes 12:00 noon for our 1:00 pm ship tour. |
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| The set of guidelines for the ship tour. among other things it advised visitors that the tour will last almost two hours (ours lasted 30 minutes); it also advised guests to have their money exchanged to dollars just in case they'd be interested to buy some stuff in the Mercy store (during our tour that store was nowhere to be found) |
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| Our group being given some sort of a briefing before the tour. |
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| The USNS Mercy and the Japanese Ship Oosomi as seen from the Calbayog pier. |
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| Yup, we took what they called the Band-aid boat in going to the Mercy ship. |
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| . . . and indeed, the ship was huge |
