Friday, March 04, 2011

Soft Star around the world

There is a shop here in Singapore that sells Soft Star Shoes. The other day Mom, Langston, and I went to Love for Earth to check it out. It took us a while to get there - it is quite far from the area of the city we are familiar with. We had to ride a bus I've never been on before and we were on it for LOTS of stops. But we got off at the right place and after a bit of walking, found the store.

The mom of one of Kahlil's classmates called the posted hours of Singaporean stores a guideline... not really something you should count on.

I looked up Love for Earth on-line and they have a posted opening time of noon (which is already pretty late by US standards). We got there at 11:59 - the lights are out and it's obvious no one is there. Well, they aren't suppose to open until noon so no big deal. So we do a loop around the shopping center and come back around 12:20 - the lights are out and no one is home. We're hungry so we decide to go eat in the cafe upstairs. After a lovely lunch we go back to Love for Earth around 1 - lights are ON but nobody is home. Apparently the proprietor had opened shop then stepped out for lunch. At that point we had to get going to make it home to meet Kahlil's bus. So we snapped a couple quick pictures and headed home. I'll try again in a couple weeks.

Here is the Love for Earth store. These were actually more like stalls in this shopping center... maybe 15 feet by 30 feet.

And right in the front window are Soft Star Shoes!

1 comment:

SH said...

So cool to see the shoes way over there!