Loving the Metro On Holidays Like This

We entered the parking area of Greenbelt 3 today and found it almost empty!!  We had dinner at a restaurant in Greenbelt 5 and only four tables were used.  There was also no traffic today in most major thoroughfares except that part of EDSA going north to Pampanga.

That's cool!! Most everyone in Manila are now highing it off to the provinces for this week's long Halloween weekend, of course, not to celebrate Halloween, but to visit their dead on All Saint's Day.  It's always great to see Manila almost empty on weekends like this. It only happens twice a year - this week and on Holy Week.  Sometimes I wish those who left would never come back, but of course, I am asking for the moon!  I live in a megalopolis bursting at the seams.  This week, the city is taking a breather.