My sweetie drove me to Suvarnabhumi airport at 8.30am. My flight is TG628 from BKK at 10.40am and arrival Hong Kong at 14.30pm (Approx. 3hr). It was very long queue at TG check-in and seem nobody work at the counter. I am so curious what happened? After waiting for 40 minute the information center said a notice, it’ was electricity shut down. But I don’ think so because it’s still lighting. Anyway I can check-in and flying on time. The flight was not so smooth like silk but it ok. I slept for 1 hour. Cof-feee!
with my sweetie for his conference and our trip for one week (in August 2005). We stayed at Park Lane Hotel, Causeway Bay area for 5 nights and at The Knutsford by swiss-belhotels, Kowloon for 2 nights. When we were there, we took a ferry from Hong Kong to Ocean terminal shopping center, Harbor City, The Peak at night time, Star Avenue, night lighting show and 
many attraction locations in Hong Kong and Kowloon. We had a great time there and we had try many kind of local food, mandarin duck, Shrimp Wonton soup, Fat noodle with meat ball and meat gruel. Our favorite is meat gruel for breakfast and fat noodle with meat ball for the dinner. It’s a small local restaurant near by the Knutsford hotel. The taste was perfect, good portions and reasonable price. It’s about HK$25. we enjoy so much eating!
We (me and my boss) arrived at JW Marriott hotel about 4.00pm. Taxi cost is about HK$300, I check-in and unpack and then called my college. Yuli she is form DC Indonesia. I am called her for sightseeing, window shopping and for the dinner at Causeway Bay area. I was very familiar to that area it because of my first trip there with my sweetheart!
Yuli looking for the hand fan for her friends and I was wonder why she want to buy hand fan from Hong Kong. I was asked her it’s unique? And she said no no, it’s not a unique, but it’s because of good quality. The price it’s about HK$45, not cheaper! Am not interesting, am looking for dopod pocket and after shave for my sweetie. I couldn’t found the outlets who sales the dopod pockets in Causeway Bay area. Unbelievable!
After 1 hour walked and we so much hungry, then we found the restaurants for our dinner. We didn’t know which the good one is. We try the one which is extremely crowded people in there. And we stop at CHEE KIE restaurants near by time square Building. It’s Chinese noodle. Yuli ordered fish ball noodle and for me is Shrimp Wonton Soup + Master Green (Ka-Na-Nam-Mon-Hoi). Yuli is not ok with her ordered because of Fish Ball is smelly and taste is not nice. But for me it’s was very good taste and best quality compared with my first try in Kowloon (my 
first trip with my lovely boy). So my bill is about HK$45 for my food. Amm! Took-lae-Dee Jing-Jing na (recommend). We spent time for dinner about half hour, some chit chat about works and general.
After conference, I went back to my room took some rest and enjoy the nice view from my room. I took some picture from my room. U can see the Kowloon side, Star avenues, Wanchai area which is a lot of building and hilly view back of the hotel. My requested for king size bed and non smoking floor but still some time smoke and very bad smell. It's 5star hotel but why they have not strictly for this cause. The room not too big area but it is comfortable.
6.30pm Bus pick-up at the hotel and we went to The Foreign Correspondent’s Club for group dinner and given award for the best performance country. Bus took about 30 minute from JW Marriott hotel to the Club, on Wyndham Street, Central area. We took some group pictures at the Italian restaurants. They first serve lobster soup and then many kind of Italian food buffet. I only love meat steak, it's was very nice taste. No award for Thailand at this time! Haa! Hardly to say!
9.30pm after dinner, Susanna assistance (I can’t remember her name..). She very nice lady and she is our guide tour to Mong Kok. We went to Mong Kok (Kowloon side) for shopping and night sightseeing. We went there for total 11person by MTR from Central station to Mong Kok station, cost about HK$11 per one trip. My planned for to night is find dopod pocket (my sweetie dopod). Joan, she is my 
best friend form DC Taiwan and she helps me a lot to find the outlets for this stuff. And we found only one shop on Yuen Street.
7.30pm. we has group hosted by Mr.Phua for Asian countries, dinner venue at JW's California Restaurant, very nice place and nice food. My ordered is medium rare stake with artichokes. I love stake, taste was very nice but I eat a little of my food. (u can see in the picture, that all I can eat) It’s because of …so terrible and we had very bad experience for that dinner time! I don’t want to mention! So let it be. We was spend very bad dinner time about 4 hours and after dinner we went down to the hotel lobby for chit chat, and back to the room after that. HAA! I had nightmare! 
I got up at late, has banana and red apple for breakfast. Then took some picture at the swimming pool, at hotel lobby they has a big flowerpot with very nice Lily and Orchids I 
like that colors and aromatic.
Thu 17 May 07, dinner time, we went to 5 star restaurant at Ho Kitchen on Mang-jai road. The first class seafood restaurant and most of product import form oversea. Lobster from Austria, Boston Lobster, King crap- biger than in San Francisco and Hoi-Nhan-Chang. Weigths per one trunk it about 4-6 kilograms, price 300 Baht per 100 grams. very expensive haa! The temperature storage for fresh seafood is about 11-degree Celsius. wow! very very cool.
Day 1: The trip began
9.30am. we arrived at Las Vegas, drive onto the strip for sightseeing first then back to the hotel - Excalibur Hotel and Casino “Welcome to the Castle!” I was feeling like a pretty princess when we got there. We checking-in but the hotel had no room availability for check-in early so we have to come back later during normal check-in time at 2pm. We have arranged this hotel for 4 nights and from the hotel we can easily walk to the strip. During waiting for check-in we took monorail to Luxor and Mandalay Bay near by the hotel. We ordered soft drink and snack at Mandalay Bay for our lunch. In late afternoon the jet lag from air travel kicked in, am so sleepy and I have some nap at the café where we had soft drink. Not for long the waiter woke me up they not allow to sleep in the café. 13.30pm. we return to the hotel for check-in, unpack and slept for 3hrs, after energy is back we ready for the first night sightseeing in sin city.
Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. I had Tuna sandwich and my sweetie had meat sandwich. It’s so big portion and so nice really! The price is about $8 so surprise haa! compare with the proportion. KENO is my first game in sin city, not so lucky for the first time gambling in sin city. 
Bellagio fountains; really amazing + highly recommended. This is the largest water show in the world, and it shoots 250 feet up - all tech details aside, it's an amazing show as the sprays perform high-speed chases or sway elegantly. The fountains run every half-hour until 7 p.m. every 15 minutes after that until midnight. When you're at the fountain, you won't want to leave.
Photojournalists!10.00am, we started from New York New York Hotel, MGM Grand, Mona Co’s Monte Carlo, we entered to Bellagio (again) the lobby decorate themes Chinese New Year celebration style, beautiful flower decorates at Conservatory inside the hotel. Then we entered to Caesar Palace (again) for window shopping at Chanel, Gucci, Christian Dior and Coach and many more brand name.
Before sunset, we took a lot of picture at a peaceful waterfall in front of the Mirage, some at Pirate show area in front of Treasure Island, finally at outside Venetian. 
At Venetian there are actually has two different rides, one outside in front of the resort and one inside through the Grand Canal Shoppes. Feel like am in Venice. So romantic really! 6.30pm. on the way back to hotel for change and take video camera for night shooting, we stopped for dinner at Panda Express – Asian food Chinese’s style. Where we order fries rice with broccoli beef + Pepsi, good taste! 
Our destination is “Sirens of TI” in front of Treasure Island. We don’t want to miss again take a real fast walked there. Show time 8.30pm. Crowded of people watched the show we stand at the back. It’s difficult to see the show. The 12 minute was show dance (sexy dancer with bikini suit), energy, music, temptation, danger, excitement of four football fields filled with water. Our next stop was the volcano erupts in front of the Mirage and end with the water fountain show at Bellagio (yes..again) with another 3 romantic music and another longest kiss! Sealed with a kiss…I love you sweetie. Thanks for filling my life with so much happiness.Day 4 : One place for you to see before you die
The route was through no sign of green around via to Hoover dam. When we got a glimpse of Lake Mead, our tour guide, Katherine point us the millionaires houses around the Lake, like her dreamt houses. Then we first stopped on the Hoover Dam at the border of Arizona to take pictures. 
We stopped again at Historic Route 66 for 20 minutes. We took some pictures outside and see around the route 66 shops. Yeah, sights to see! The view was unique.
11.45am Amazing Canyon,Grand Canyon weather was very cool. On the day we got there (about 5-degree Celsius during day time), can see and touch some of snow on the ground. We decided to walk started at Mather point - paved trail 2.5 miles to Yavapai point, Bright Angel 
lodge point and Hopi house gift store (the Indian handicraft and souvenir shop in Grand Canyon Village). Along the way we chitchat about the view and shared our feeling about this trip. We take a lot of pictures and video. We had a good quality time together for about 3 hours we spend at the Canyon. I have never seen anything like this before in my life, totally different in the world, so Fantastic. After walked tour, I can feel my sweetie was so much happy and I know why.
We back to the hotel approx 9.00pm. A bit tired from 5 hours traveled back hotel. But we don’t want to waste any minute, still some energy left for tonight, we decided to spend quality time in Vegas tonight. We went to Aladdin try some drink….one drink. Alcohols dizzy me a lot. But it is so nice, I like it.
View from the Top at Paris; The Eiffel tower at 460 feet is the perfect spot for view of the Las Vegas, the informed elevator attendant recount the history of the original Eiffel Tower in France, while also pointing out Las Vegas landmarks. View from the top made me spellbound. The night view of the strip was just unbelievable so much beautiful. More over that, the water Fountain show at Bellagio began, this time view from the top, am so in love this city.
9.30am we wok up late. Today we decided to drive to the strip and we parked the car at Paris hotel. We had not breakfast but lunch at Boulangerie very region of French where you can get a dose of Europe while in Vegas. 
After lunch, we took a lot of picture outside the hotel and then we walked to Venetian hotel resort and casino. We spent at the most romantic hotel for 2 hours and we then walked to Wynn hotel. The Wynn Las Vegas resort is number one resort in Las Vegas.
Wynn, the hotel is great when passing through. The Esplanade houses some of the most popular designer stores, including Louis Vuiton, Chanel, Christian Dior and much more you can’t imagine.. There's even a Rolex flagship. The casino is well lit and there's color everywhere. The attention to detail is impeccable. After Wynn, we walked to shopping center where it located opposite the hotel, much more for window shopping– never bore. We went back to our hotel and did some gambling. Lucky for first game bit $5 and won $25 but no more luck after that and we lost $27 for 1 hour.
Venice in Vegas; Wow! What a hotel.
We started the morning with chocolate milk and Tuna sandwich for our breakfast. After breakfast, we drove to Twin Peak and take long time to be there. Because of our unfamiliarity with the San Francisco traffic system. There are so many one way streets and hilly. At Twin Peak, The weather was perfect, sunny and cool. We spent time at the Twin Peak enjoying the view and took lot of nice pictures.
We then ride to Port of San Francisco. The ride was very scenic in the Presidio area and by the time we got to the Golden Gate Park and Bridge the scene was absolutely breathtaking. We spent most of the time at Golden Gate Bridge and the view from the hill. 
Lombard Street, everyone should try this at least once! It’s the world’s most twisted street! Unfortunately for us that no flowers in the garden when we were there. We took some pictures. We wondered what kind of people lived there and fantasized about having a home on that very street.
After Lombard Street, we went to Golden Gate Park. It’s was our experience ride in the largest with a wide area of the Park and a perfect spot for snuggling, strolling, or having a picnic. We ended up near Bay area around dinner time and fortunately again we found Thai restaurant name “Ladda seafood” where we ordered Tom-Yum-Kung, Pad-Ka-Pow-Nuay and Pad-Pak. Really good Thai taste and reasonable priced. After dinner it nearly 7.00pm, we drove to Twin Peak again for the night view. We had a good time there. We seated on the ground, talked and discussed about our love life, hehe..top secrets! It was the most romantic and memorable experience we've had together. However we didn't spend a lot of time there because of the thick fog and freezing weather. We then back to the hotel around 8.30pm
We decided to take it easy today and spend much of today at pier 39. We first stopped at Civic Center take photos and see around that area. We then walked to find a cable car line. I think the cable cars are the best way to get around the city, if you don't mind the crowds. You can see everything and it is fun. The cable car took us to Fisherman's Wharf where a typical tourist destination full of gift shops and vendors offering city tours. We enjoyed it. We had breakfast at Ciopping restaurants-Bar, they served Italian food and seafood. I love Italian food.
Pier 39, at this time we are enjoying the neighborhoods and the nice weather. The shops are wonderful on pier 39 and beautiful tulip garden. It smells like the sea and we got to see real seal lions just inches away lounging around on the docks barking, jumping into the marina to swim and sleeping..!
At 6pm, at Wharf we ordered one crab for two of us cost about $20 ($8.56 per pound), weight approx. 2 pound wow! Ever see Phoo Yuck before he he..). We enjoyed excellent seafood. The crab was absolutely delicious, very fresh and nice taste 
Scenic Drive, Pacific Coast Highway – CA1, we drove about 1 hour and first stopped at Santa Cruz. Stopped for international breakfast at MacDonald’s as our first optional for American food. After breakfast we toward to Monterey Bay, we drove about 2 hours (126 miles from SF). Before arrive at the Monterey we stopped at one Artichokes farms bought some Strawberry Peach and red Apple. Strawberry was very fresh, big size and very nice taste.
Then we turn off at Fisherman’s Wharf for lunch but no lunch at there. Because of the food price quite high. Wharf, it was okay. We thought it would be like San Francisco’s but it was not. It was small. There were not a lot of good places to eat. Monterey Bay is peaceful. We took some picture, seeing around the pier and then looking for a place to stay a night. During that weekend the hotel was fully booked for lawyer’s conference. We went to many hotels and spent couple hours to find the hotel, but no room available. There have some but the rate very high and higher than hotels in San Francisco. We decided to skip the day & night short at Monterey Bay and heading to Los Angeles instead.
We headed down to California Highway 1, one of the most scenic drives anywhere in the world. Highway 1 is amazing up here. The road along the side of the mountains and became very narrow at times. There are huge mountains meeting the ocean, a lot of cliffs on the side of the road. My sweetie has to watch the road so we stopping frequently not only relax but also enjoy the scenic view together. We turn offs at a vista to enjoy the views, watched the waves hit the rocks for a good hour and then hit the road because we don’t have much time to stop everywhere since we did not want to arrive LA too late.
After a long ride, we stop at Big Sur River Inn and restaurant for late lunch. Our ordered were Fish Fries served with French Fries and Fresh Spinach Almond Salad with very, very tasteful of sweet sauce. The food quality was amazing and use of locally made and grown ingredients. It was certainly the best American food we have ever had. Big Sur is great peaceful place and great food. We so much enjoy our lunch/eat at the restaurant over looking the water fall and took a short walk to the stream.
After lunch, there are many places to stop down the coast and we went through many state parks, Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is beautiful a lot of big tree. Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park has waterfall to see, camping place, the ocean the cliffs and the mountains, beaches, watched, wind surfers, wave surfers, Sea Lions and much other marine life are viewable. We stopped at the Bixby Creek Bridge, took very nice picture. We saw only one gas station along the way, we stopped for fuel, restroom and spent a little time hanging out in the lodge. I can’t remember the name hehe. We had Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and watched the nice view. There is a beach, but the rocky cliffs and canyons certainly gave a new feeling.
Beverly Hills/Rodeo Drive Shopping District, It was totally different from what we had been doing in the previous days. It is great to walk or drive and take in the richness area. We interact with locals and we had a breakfast at Brighton Coffee Shop on Rodeo Drive. After breakfast we walked around the area, spent a little time took picture at the Beverly Hills.
Hollywood Walk of Fame, I have been waiting to go to Hollywood walk of Fame, Kodak Theater, and Chinese Theater. The most interesting part of the walk is the hand and footprints in the front of Mann's Chinese theater. A little bit disappointing trip down Hollywood Walk of Fame. Once we got there and have a photo taken with the "star" actor of course, a few bucks from my pocket. We only took a short time there took some video and some picture. We also walked to the nearby Kodak Theatre. They are on preparation the red carpet for Oscar in 25 Feb 07. Back to the Future, we headed back to North Hollywood and visited my sweetie house at Cantley street, Sherman way road (x’house). We took a short walked around the alley and get feel like at home. Then we went to Ralph Supermarket near P’ house, we took some food and fruits for dinner at the motel. Day 11 : President day and shopping!
8.30am we went to Wat Thai of Los Angeles see around and met 2 Thai people there. Just say Sawasdee kha, because we don’t know each other. We took some picture and then to P’G high school near by that area.Day 12 : Wonderland
All of this day was dedicated to the happiest place on earth called Disneyland. Disneyland was a big reason why we picked Los Angeles in our vacation itinerary. Next to Disneyland was another theme park called California Adventure. However, we decided not to go there because we only allocated one day for Anaheim and preferred to spend it on the "classic" Disney rides.
We went there on a Tuesday. Weather was nice and extremely crowded. It was very long queues for car park and the entrance. But when we get in them park there were 30-45 minute queues in the popular rides such as Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain.
Our experience in the classic Disney; Jungle Cruise, Haunted mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain, Buzz Lighthyear Astro Blasters, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Fantasyland, Mickey’s House and Meet Mickey, Indiana Jones and Walt Disney’s Parade of Dreams at the nigh time. Wooow! Magical place. My dream is come true. We absolutely loved it! Especially Indiana Jones rids, so much fun and very fantastic! We had a great time, unfortunately though didn't have enough time to do everything in the park.
It was on Wednesday and the park was less crowded compare to Disneyland the day before. The queue time was 15-30 minutes. Before we entered we decided to take some picture at the City Walk, which is a strip of shops and restaurant right next to the theme park. We had a wonderful time here, especially at Shrek 4D. As the name suggests, it was a 3D movie that you watch with a special glasses. However, there were some extra sensory surprises during the movie (which made it 4D... Get it?). And the Mummy ride, the ride is super fun and fast. We went for 2 times. It was so good and very nice place to see.
We took picture with my favorites Characters, Shrek+ Fiona and Spiderman. Our experience in the Entertainment theme park at Shrek 4D movies as mention, Back to the Future was very excited and awesome, Jurassic Park look real and more fun, Terminator 2:3D We got saying suuuper!, Mummy our favorite ride, Special Effects, Water World and we also took the theme park tour, which is a must for all visitors. After theme park, we went to Topanga Plaza for another round of shopping. We had dinner at Japanese restaurant before we got back to the hotel late at night. 
Actually we plan to ski area, but it seems like no snow. The weather was not cool. Then we decided to take all day at the most adventure theme park at California Adventure. Our favorite ride, Grizzly River Run really nice water ride. The scenery is great. The boat twists and turns a lot, so skip this one if you get dizzy easily. You will get wet, possibly 
soak. California Screaming super fast and fun but very long queue for this ride. Bug land, a really good 3D movie, funny and it seem so real, with the mist, stinks bomb, and pokes in the back. Maliboomer it was time to relax and enjoy the top view of theme park. Twilight Zone Tower of Terror scary but I Love this ride! There is screen to watch shows on. It is really cool. I screamed on each drop. Aladdin and the magic lamp a 40-minutes live musical, featuring five songs from the animated movie, plus on new composition. It is wonderful!
After Aladdin show was raining and weather was very cool. We head back the hotel early about 6pm. Traffic was very bad because of raining. We stuck on the highway about 2 hours and getting very hungry. After long time drove, we went to Thai food restaurant name Suanlung on Sherman Way road. We order Praa-Tup-Tim-Tod-Krob and Nauy-Pad-Kra-Prow with big bowl rice. It was very nice, reasonable price and good portion.“The memories will always be with me”
