Happening December 2009

Of all the months of the year, other than CNY mth and my birthday mth, the most favourite mth shall be December!!!

Yes!!! FULL OF HOLIDAYS and festive mood!!!!

It was my last dec in US. My sil came to tour US with her 2 frds and to visit us. We flew to meet them in SFO, a place that we started our adventures!

Pai seh to say, after over a year stay in US, it was our first attempt using public transport..... see monkey trying to figure out how to use the Bart Ticket Machine (like our MRT) from SFO International airport......


hehee... my hua chi pose, taken at fisherman's wharf


love the boat ride from Blue and Gold Fleet. Fantastic!!! but the wind was so strong..... our teeths were chilled from smiling for the pics!!!


Another point of attraction at SFO. Coit Tower. By the time we "climbed" up the slopes here, i was panting like an old woman... old liao... but SFO is like tat, full of up and down slopes, and the slopes were steep!!!!


See! i didn't bluff u! Lombard St, the most crookedest street in world!!!! the cars travelling have to drive at turtle speed around the turns for this slope... to my amazement, there are residents living here, and the houses were so exp!!! and somemore.... i pei-fu their parking, on a slope into their garage!!!


It rained "ice" (called glazier) on our first day there.... can u understand how cold it is?


Saw this swensen's shop at one of the slopes, wonder if its related to the one in sg....aww.... miss home!!!!


Big toy grabbing machine at Pier 39.


Meet up with Yuan and Weixie. We had dinner together at chowders. So warm and nice and catching up with old frds made it sweeter!!! k la, i was freezing cold already, so any food is good!


actually yuan's bf weixie beri romantic to arrange a surprise "meet up", tats y i dun even dare to reveal to boonkiat or liling abt this plan cuz its a surprise..... hehee.. and oso lucky tat their itinerary is exactly same as ours!



On our 2nd day in SFO, we went to a few places..... took this pic at Ralph Lauren


Chinatown


Nite and day is just a few mins apart..


Big big big macys!!!


The famous Mystery Spot!!!


in the fun house where we felt so giddy abt the "magnetic pull"


The mystery starts, now I m taller than my sil.


Then..... we are now equally tall after switching positions!




Had some wine appreciation near the pier at nite..



Our vegas trip again. went to vegas many times but this was our first time reaching there by plane...

vegas is really a sin city!!!! even at the airport, there are so many slot machines!!!!


Took a free shelter to their car rental center (they have so much space at the airport). We had booked Budget which is cheaper for tat few days... omg... even their car rental centre looks like a mini-check in centre airport


look wad monkey triggers!!!


Thanks weixie and yuan for taking this pic for us


We were roaming abt following monkey while he kept leading us the wrong way to find his fav Abercrombie & Fitch...




Had nice nice brunch at ah zhong (a must-go)......hahaa..... felt so happy tat our itinerary were really similiar


Dinner at Penang Cuisine (just above ah zhong) yummy!!!!!!!!!!


Sky show at fremont (went vegas so many times and my first time at fremont!)


5 queens.


Shuang tian zhi zun was filmed here before... dunno which ep




we also went for a free magic show (Dirk Arthur). Find it ok only, but was glad tat we won some money at the slots and then monkey treated me to hard rock cafe.. hehe... too many pics in this post..



Vegas trip with Eric and his sweet gf miyo


The pics were "grabbed" from miyo's fb. thanks for taking and sharing!


Cocacola Bear!!!! So cute. He asked for our attention while we were shopping in the Coke's world...


I think we went to this restaurant twice..... highly recommended by eric.. I would say, go for their dinner, so worth it and nice and cheap!


Shopping at town's centre.... hehe.. a xmas house




finally monkey bought something....


taken at our hotel (flammingo)








Hoover Dam in winter


This was taken while waiting (in hunger and tiredness) for the famous international buffet Todai at Planet Hollywood. I must emphaize that its at Planet Hollywood and not Caesars Palace! Cuz monkey brought all of us to the wrong place again! making us more hungry and tired before we got right (hengz we asked a nice ang moh who happens to noe abt this buffet)..... we waited/queued for an hour before its our turn to go in..... hungry till wanna die...



tats not all.... dec is very happening... for 2009...