oh, just remembered i need to go pay my school fees for my last sem at sim.. i'm excitedto be done with it.i have learnt lost, but i have also given up lots for it.. hmm..
anyway, back to the trip.. it was great. we started with a 6 hour flight to Tokyo Narita Airport, then took the connecting 11 hour flight to Los Angeles.. Northwest airline is not so good ah.. personal opinion. service was quite bad.. there were good service staff, but the black sheep left a bitter after taste. we were picked up and went to our hotel at Anaheim, the Wnydham hotel. during our trip, the hotel actually changed their name to be Anaheim Park Hotel. hee hee..
doing some shopping..
the area that we lived in was cool. it had lots of shops that allowed us to get alot of the things we wanted.. there was the party shop, sports authority, henry's supermarket, vans shoe shop, tilly's clothes shop, avenue clothes shop, marshall's, target, one dollar shop and so on. there were lots of food places too.. we could try all sorts of fast food. haha.. and there was chinese take out.. like those in the shows... haha.. the orange chicken, black pepper chicken and mushroom chicken with veg and chow mien soon became my favourite! Panda Express was good.. saved our days many a times after our overdose of burgers and chinese buffet. haha.. food is expensive there...
the next two days after we arrived were spent at Disneyland and California Adventure. it was damn cool... never been to disneyland before.. it was great.. found out that the disneyland LA was the first ever.. although it rained on the first day we went and it was bloody cold, we had fun going for the rides and leaving the park with our teeth chattering and shivers till we reached our room... brrrr.... it was cold...
on the fourth day, we woke up late, but somehow made it on time to go for our Las Vegas trip.. a 5 hour journey turned into a 14 hour nightmare as we were stuck. the freeway closed and entry and exit points to vegas were closed.. all because of a freak snow storm that hit vegas, a desert oasis. it was the first time it snowed in about 15 years and the first time it snowed so much in close to 30 years... it caught everyone unaware and because they did not have all the snow removing equipment, vegas authorities closed its doors... airport was shut down, ppl were trapped. we spent the night in Laughlin a town just outsdie Vegas. the tour guide could not give proper answers and the ppl on the bus were pissed and tired of being trapped in the bus... hmmm.. could have been better managed. the next day, we were supposed to go to Grand Canyon.. but our tour guide decided not to go.. and so we didn't. we went to vegas, checked into the hotel Riveria and had lunch. ratnor and i decided that we needed to do some walking after sitting in the bus for so long and we left the tour group to explore on our own.. we went shopping! haha.. went to the Coach Factory Outlet at Vegas and bought so many bags! was helping my sis, aunts and some friends to get some bags.. didn't mange to help everyone get as the designs were off season ones.. my aplogies if i didn;t manage to get any!
the next day, we went back to LA. did some sightseeing of the casinos in Vagas then left.. on our way back, we went to Barstow for more outlet shopping! there i bought some more. haha...
snow-capped mountains...
on the seventh day, we went to San Francisco.. went to Monetery Bay, 17 Miles.. beautiful.. caught the sunset there.. lovely.. then went to check in the Raddison Hotel in Dublin. nice place.. finally free internet... haha... we were like addicts on cold turkey let loose.. leapt onto the laptop and iphone and started surfing.. haha.. next day, it rained and we went to the Golden gate Bridge.. yet again, we bailed out from the tour group and went exploring on our own.. we went to borders at Union Square then went to Pier 39. walked in the freezing rain and had our dinner. by then we were all wet but very happy we left the group.. we took the BART back to Dublin and then took a cab to out hotel.. it was convenient! :)
on day 9, we went to Yosemite National Park to see snow! wow... it was lovely.. for the first time i played with snow and it was fun! haha... amazing experience.. :)
day 10, 11 and 12 were spent shopping.. we rented the car for one day and drove to downtown LA.. roads were crowded with cars.. everyone was doing last moinute shoppin! madness... on xmas eve, we did ourlast minute shooping too and then bought food back for our own xmas dinner. all the shops were closed by 6pm.. everyone was home celebrating!
the next day, we embraked on our long journey back home.. 12 hours from LA to Tokyo then 7 hours from Tokyo back to SG.. phew... flight from tokyo was delayed for three hours.. haiz.. oh well..
at the Narita Airport..
i have to get stuffs done today.. wonder if i should sleep first. haha...
just to share, i have three new cameras! haha.. the white is from ratnor, the ultra small one is from ross and the Nishika is a 3D camera we found in LA selling for a very good price! hahha... woo hoo..
sleep or no sleep? hmm..
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