Barat Mode

So come October 10th, we woke up at 430 am to prepare. By 530 am, we hit the road.

When we entered SLEX the sky was still cloudy and the sun seemed hiding. So we stopped at Petron SLEX for tire check, ice cubes and a quick morning snack… Yup, quick snack not breakfast! hehehe since we want to eat breakfast at Tagaytay.

Our PJ is heavily tinted and we were so confused with the road signs of SLEX we missed Sta. Rosa exit. It’s a good thing that there’s a new exit called Greenfield, so we tried it and we landed at Paseo (A commercial complex at Sta. Rosa that houses a lot of Outlet stores).

By this time,  it was raining heavily.

When we reached Tagaytay, we were supposed to eat breakfast at Bag of beans — since we got a lot of good reviews — but we needed to go down the slippery stairs to get to the dining area.  So we decided to look for another cafe… and we saw their menu and breakfast sets are priced about Php 300 per person! (yikes… too expensive for breakfast ) … This lead us to RSM.

Still breakfast meals are priced at an average of Php 180… Oh well, this is more reasonable than the Php 300 per plate eh? plus they have a very nice view of the Taal Volcano. So our verdict? Pwede na! hehehe

(Beef Tapa – too salty hehehe )

After breakfast we tried our luck to go to Paradizoo despite the rainy morning.

When we reached the zoo, the sun was up and we were recommended to use rubber slippers since it’s muddy. The golf cart was being occupied by the students who were  having their educational trip so we had to walk.

They have a couple of animals, a small bee farm, a flower farm and a very friendly staff who toured us around the Zoo.  The entrance fee was Php 190 for adults and free for our 2 year old.

Honestly, it was nothing spectacular but our baby had soooo much fun talking with the goats.  Since she had fun, well we guess it’s worth the trip.

After Paradizoo, we have no choice but to go directly to our hotel and have an early check-in since the it was a rainy and super foggy morning.

T-house was very accomodating and allowed us to do an early check-in. Here are some pictures of our room:

We were supposed to eat lunch at Hawaiian Bar-b-que but were too lazy to move around since the floors were wet. So we decided to eat lunch in the hotel’s restaurant.

After lunch, we had our siesta and decided to eat dinner around 630pm. We went to La Boutique (Hawaiian Bar-b-que) for dinner and had dessert at Cafe Breton in Cliffhouse.

The next day, after check-out. We bought ube and ube macapuno (it was our first time to try this product and we loved it). Then we had lunch at Sancturio and beef shopping at Mahogany.

Since it was only 2pm and the temperature in Tagaytay was hot and just like Manila, we decided to head home and go to Paseo in Sta. Rosa for some shopping.

How do we rate our weekend roadtrip? A certified stress buster but not a certified Barat trip! hehehe since we did not look for Barat places this time but pure indulgence on whatever we want! hehehe