Soft Luxe Travels: Marilao - Pampanga - Tarlac - and Back to Bulacan Part 3: Journey Home and Shopping in Bulacan

On the way home, we stopped by a Shell stopover center, so that Kuya Fil can have some coffee and everyone can use the bathroom. However, this place had outlet stores of big brands like Adidas, Skechers, Crocs, Giordano, etc. And you know what that means, right? Shopping!

We all met at Select to eat. I ordered this triple chocolate cookie, which was sooo good.

My sister and the rest had this ham and cheese turnover, but Kuya Fil didn't like it as it was too tough. Mom also said that it was hard to chew.

My sister ordered this. This is a milk chocolate bun, I think.

I ordered corned beef pandesal. This was good.

I only ate a small piece. My sister also tasted it. I didn't notice the cute plastic pouch before.

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While eating, Kuya FIl showed us pictures of luggages that were on BOGO. He was thinking of buying one, but decided that he will buy them when he decides to go abroad.

Aside from bags (cover photo), they also had shoes. I was choosing from these:

I went home with this design and color, as seen in this post.

We got these luggages:

This pair is my son's

This pair is also for my son.

And we got Kuya Fil a pair of shoes, too! I told Kuya Fil that he has good taste in shoes! I like this style.

We got free slippers.

The staff who attended to us was very patient and nice. We were there for a long time. We kept asking for sizes and stocks. It took us a long time because most of the styles we chose no longer have our sizes.

After we paid for everything, we thanked everyone and went out. It was already getting dark. Then I realized that I had some Glow Kits with me, so I went back to give them some. Those two at 7Luxe were the first recipients of my Glow Kits. 😊

We headed back home to Manila and got home around 7:30 pm. It was a very productive and fun trip. I look forward to going back to that stopover center to do some more shopping.

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'Til my next post,

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