A Day in the Life: Subaru WRX STI

June 10, 2012

Our travel to Subic is almost at an end. We're going back to reality in just a few hours. We spent the morning lazing around the hotel room, enjoying the airconditioning :) The kids woke up late because we didn't have any plans during the morning. They just feasted on cable's Cartoon Network for entertainment. Believe me, that's luxury enough for them since we don't have cable at home :)

After checking out, we headed to this spot along Waterfront Road to take pictures of Ghost for the article that Patrick will be writing. For a brief moment, we thought that we'd be in the middle of a thunderstorm because the clouds were really rolling and looked angry. There were raindrops for sure, as you can see. But the sky cleared in a jiffy and we were in the middle of a bright summer day in a few minutes.

Raindrops keep falling on our head! :D

Ghost and us :)

Can you tell how much he loves this car? :D

After the photoshoot, we headed again to Xtremely Xpresso because we simply loved the food! :) There weren't many patrons as of yet and the kids were able to watch Mr. Pizza Man craft the dough. We also drooled over the handcrafted ice cream but we weren't able to take pictures. We ordered the same stuff as yesterday, except for the chicken pesto sandwich which I had. It was really good! ::)

Chicken Pesto Sandwich

Dana and her bubblegum flavored ice cream

There were some misses on this trip but over-all it was still a restful vacation. The highlight was Xtremely Xpresso (for me, at least) but it's still the beach for the kids :) Patrick's just happy enough to sleep in an air conditioned room hahaaha Till Next Time! :D

June 08, 2012

Our summer vacation came a little late this year but as they say, "better late than never". The kids, Patrick and I went to Subic for 3 days and 2 nights and we were lucky enough to be test driving the 2012 Subaru Impreza WRX STI for Top Gear Philippines in the same trip.

Our first stop on our trip was the Teriyaki Boy Restaurant in the Petron compound along the North Luzon Expressway. We all love Japanese food and Dylan especially loves California Maki as you can see from this picture.

The rest of us had Katsudon,gyoza and the rest of the Maki.

It's just great that my kids really love trying out new food for themselves. :)

After having that hefty lunch, we all trooped back to the Subaru STI we named "Ghost" in honor of John Snow's direwolf in Game of Thrones. Why Ghost? Well, he's silver (close to white) but he's so ferocious on the road. He can reach up to 200 kilometers per hour and there's not even a hint of hardship on the engine. He's as cool as they come. I didn't even know we were running at that speed! But sshhh! I don't think that's allowed :D I did have a problem with it being too sporty as I felt it was a bumpy ride. I ended up getting a headache upon arriving in Subic. This car is an animal on the road!!

We arrived in Subic in record time. We checked in at the Bayfront Hotel which was were we usually stay when in Subic. We were surprised to see a new hotel in front of Bayfront. It was still under construction when we last came to Subic. Now it was called the Terrace Hotel and it looked interesting from my vantage point. At first we had a problem with checking in because the room that they assigned was not the one that I requested when I made the booking. Then they couldn't accommodate the request because they were fully booked. Good for them so I settled with a different room. This one had twin beds which still wasn't what I asked for and not what I paid for. Eventually, they got it right. It was a good thing I was still in a good mood or else ... With this setback, I was considering trying out the Terrace Hotel on the other side the next time we came to Subic.

So we just rested for a while with the kids just watching TV. In the end, we opted to go to Royal Subic to buy our snacks for the beach trip tomorrow and to see if there was anything worth buying :)

Right after buying what we needed to buy, it really didn't take us long, we went to Meat Plus Cafe for dinner. It was a good thing we didn't take too long at the Duty Free because when we reached Meat Plus, there wasn't that many people lined up and we were able to get a very cozy table. Right after we ordered, the people started coming in...

Here are pics of us waiting for our orders at Meat Plus Cafe.