It feels like the first leg of my journey home. Although I have three weeks left, it feels like my vacation is over.
We left the resort around 4 am today and arrived in Quezon City around 9 am. Thankfully, the rain stopped, so the ride was uneventful. Auntie Baby stayed behind to spend more time with me.
In the evening, Auntie Baby and I met my stepbrother Rey and his wife Malou at the SM MegaMall in Ortigas. Apparently, malls are cropping up everywhere; the bigger, the better. This mall is big. It's nowhere as big as the Mall of America in Minnesota, but this is one of the biggest malls in the Philippines.
We had dinner at Dad's Restaurant in the mall. It's a buffet with Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino dishes. And, of course, there were the traditional Filipino desserts.
Afterwards, Rey went to get his haircut while we roamed the mall. When the mall closed, we passed by a place where they sell parols. A parol is a traditional Christmas display. It is a star, representing the star of Bethlehem, traditionally made of a frame of bamboo sticks covered by colored cellophane. Nowadays, it is made of capiz shells with small Christmas lights inside the star.
We passed by a place that makes bibingka (traditional pancakes cooked in a charcoal oven and topped with cheese and boiled eggs) and watched how they're made.
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