Las Vegas

Fifth Stop - Sin city

Finally, we took a FLIGHT instead of a bus or train. And next destination - Las Vegas!!

Stayed at one of the hotels along the Strip and upgraded for $50 a night to a room on the 33rd floor with a HUGE bathroom and a jacuzzi (top left pic in collage), which was very useful cos Las Vegas is quite boring during the day except for all the shopping centres and pretty architecture and themes. It's way way way too hot to walk outside by the way. Ghiradelli chocolate ice cream was the highlight of the day... it's sooooo yummy and but it's a little too big so I felt really full after eating it. At night we watched Ka (Cirque de Soleil) which was really nice! In the end, Las Vegas turned out to be a place where we did quite a bit of shopping for myself (clothes) and for the home (quite a bit of decorative items).. which added to the load in our luggage. 

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.