Fourth stop

Los Angeles!! Our hotel this time was also a very nice one (this is the 8th one in the last 2 weeks), quietly tucked inside a residential area off Sunset blvd. We had strawberrys with chocolate for a welcome gift and a note + dinner voucher from my sister. How sweet! 

Le Montrose

Santa Monica beach

Did a sand bath for my feet

Universal Studios Hollywood! Although it's my 3rd or 4th time here by now but many things have changed.. still enjoyable after all! 

Santa Barbara

Ok I'm back.. really bad updating my posts.. so where was I?

Third stop: Santa Barbara

I really LOVE this place. It's a small town and everything is so serene. The beach is great, weather was fantastic.. and so was the food and the hotel. Absolutely no complains. 

We went on a whale watching cruise, did cycling, sat on the beach, walked around town.. RELAXED! 

Reaching SB by train

Cycling & enjoying the coastline

Fine weather!

Our hotel - very petite place

The food! Look at those gorgeous scallops (top left)!!!

Let's catch up

Finally down with some time to blog. 

It's been a hectic 2 months after getting married, too busy enjoying myself in HK and US.. and back to work immediately. Finally had some time today to look at my honeymoon pics. 

First stop: San Francisco

A lovely place with a lovely weather. The hotels were great too, with their free wine and cheese selection every day. We were at SF for 3 nights on our first stop, stayed at one of the Kimpton hotels so needless to say it was great. Furthermore they had really cool tiger-striped bathrobes and bedrooms slippers. Coolest ever that I have seen. Located along 5th St, it was real convenient to get onto the tram to the bay. Of course, like all tourists, we queued about an hr to take the tram too. 

Second stop: Yosemite

This is one of our fav stops. No doubt it was hot (it is summer), waterfalls were "leaking" with water instead of free-falling - if you know what i mean- and we didnt have a car so we couldnt go around to other parts of the park. BUT it was wonderful. We stayed at a lodge facing the mountains.. breathtaking, esp in the morning. During the day we were walking around enjoying the scenery and the wonder of creation. Really really really nice. I would say it's even nicer than Canadian Rockies. 

Gtg now.. continue another time..

Super cute present

I know I'm 26 this year but this wedding gift is sooo cute! 

All the way from Disneyland USA from my bro Lionel. 

Album

Went to collect the photo album/ collage today. This one is done by the both of us. I think we put in about 10hrs or more just to choose the pics, the colours, the borders, the background, the words, the spacing, the alignment... everything from scratch. But we're really happy with the results. It's the effort that makes the result even sweeter I guess. We included wedding pictures as well as non-wedding pictures just to make it more unique. The album has 30 pages, of which 6 are non wedding pics. We also tried not to repeat the pics that are used in the "official" album that the official photographer is putting up for us.

Birthday

7 July 2008. Kenneth turns 29. And it's 19 days to our wedding.. a time to celebrate!! 

Birthday celebration this year was just a simple dinner yet one of the best dinners we've ever had in terms of both quality of food and service. And I'm really happy cos I managed to keep it a secret from Kenneth so he was pleasantly surprised. :-) I planned the menu for the evening and had it all ready and set for the night. 

Birthday Present from me - Lemon Poppy Cake

Dinner started off nicely with a cosy ambience and nice wine. 

Followed by a nice birthday "cake" 

Next year's birthday will be something different again.. looking forward to every year together. 

When we were young

One of the good things about uploading pictures onto an online album is that you can easily find pictures from the good old days.. and to see how quickly time has passed. The picture below was taken in one of the gardens in ntu.. probably in 2003/4.. I think we look so... young and full of energy?!?! Work is really sapping the energy out of us now.