LA trip 21-24Jun Day 4

Today is a short day, we have a flight to catch at 5.30pm at LAX airport. Driving time from anaheim to LAX is approximately 1hr, that's provided no traffic jam/didn't get lost. So we left around 2pm..

Told myself today no more spending time for queing for rides, and concentrate fully on taking pictures..hehe

The moment we step into disneyland, we saw Donald Duck!!..So happy..Usually famous character's queue is much much longer than those not so famous 1. Plus most kids actually had a signature book to get them to sign, this made longer waiting time.

Jared looking at donald duck again!

Main Street USA, look at the crowd..it's a Monday!

Finally managed to catch a shot with Pluto at California Adventure.

The signature food from Disneyland, the turkey leg, US7 each. A bit scary to eat so big leg, guess what we did? brought back the remaining to stir fry with cabbage..hehe. On budget and cannot waste lah..hehe. Most of all, I'm the one who wanted to try it..and when we got back, heard that most ppl in daddy's comp got try it be4. Lucky we tried..heh

There's a lot of staff selling balloons, and everytime they hold a big bunch.

Toontown

It's the display of Mickey, minnie etc 's house. Mickey house is always crowded...so I think we only managed to get into minnie's house.

Jared like these car display, everytime he saw 1, he would auto jump off from his stroller and play a while.

The mickey shape ice cream, very tasty, US4 each..we had 2 during our stay there..hehe.

Overall, despite the hot weather, I think Disneyland is really a fun place to go. If not for disneyland, I would be complaining so much about daddy's decision to bring us to LA knowing it will be so hot.

LA trip 21-24Jun Day 3 Part 2

In Day3 of Disneyland, we just did so many things..

After the parade, we walk around again in Disneyland, then about 4pm+ we cross over to the California Adventure to watch the Pixar Parade. This parade had the latest cartoon movie characters, most important of all, Jared's favourite character- The lighting Mcqueen! He watched Cars in the airplane to US, then by the 2nd wk we here, already start bugging us to get him a lighting mcqueen. (1st wk, he concentrated on bugging us to get him a ah cici, the concrete mixer).



Lighting Mcqueen from Cars



Chef from Ratatouille



Finding Nemo



Lightning Mcqueen's pal-another Jared's fav


Video of the Pixar Parade




In the Insect Kingdom of California Adventure


Insect kingdom, California Adventure

Our dinner after a visit to Bourdin's bakery. This is originated from San Francisco-sour dough bread with the clam chowder soup and chicken salad. I really like the sour taste of the bread, so glad it was found here.



Weather has turned cooling in anaheim, so it was really nice to sit by the river to take our dinner..this is so diff from LA, LA is all the way hot.


When California Adventure turned dark, it looks great..but we didn't have chance to have a good walk..time is running out!..and we had to rush for Electrical Parade..


Electrical Parade, lights are turned off, all the displayed with beautiful lights..its really different.
Jared loves the parade..

Some video of the Electrical Parade...and my camera really cannot make it at this point.and to think that we still need to rush back to Disneyland to watch the fireworks...so didn't manage to take any fireworks...the beauty can only remain in our mind..haha..

LA trip 21-24Jun Day 3

Day 2 started with extending the car with alamo, and then park back car at hotel cos parking at Disneyland required US12 per day. So we had to walk about 10mins under hot sun to Disneyland...

When we reached already about 9-10am+, there was already very big crowd. But we can feel the happy feeling with the music and the excited ppl. This is daddy&mine 2nd trip to disneyland, the previous 1 was Disneyland Paris in a winter 1Jan 2005, but we still think it would be nice to bring Jared to the happy place to enjoy although a lot of ppl advised that 2.5yr old can't do much in Disneyland... The most chek ak ppl say 2.5yr old? 0.5-1 day is enuff there..

In the end we only planned for 1.5 days..if I had knew the crowd, and so many show to catch, I would extend another day..2.5-3days would be perfect..



Disneyland Main Street


Most important character, the Mickey Mouse!..Need to queue for quite long before can take pic with him, and finally its our turn, Jared looking at mickey..not camera..aiyo!



The first ride, queue at least 30mins..


Jared loves this, merry go around..we took twice, once in morning and another time at nite, He would sing 1,2,3,4,5,6,7..when he see this same as his vcd.


This 1 is nice shoot, no other ppl, and both of them looking into camera!, but I'm not in there!..

The parade,I've watched similar parade in Paris before..but cannot be compared to this 1..cos that time we stand far far, need to tip toe to see. For this, so lucky that we stand right in front, and no one block us. Jared loves the parade too. But I realised my camera battery low batt there :( No way we could make a trip back to hotel to charge camera if we plan to cover more rides and show, in fact also no time for dinner outside disneyland...




A video of the parade

Disney Family Pics

It's extremely hard to take proper family pic in Disneyland because of the huge crowd. No one would be free to stop by to help you take a family pic...

They have got some professional photographers around to help ppl take pics, and these pics are available to view on website within 30days. But it's quite ex to develop with them >US10 per piece.

Those the professional took also not nice to spend $ on, most of them Jared doesn't look into camera..

So as the smart comp user..I use print screen, and made them into a collage..hehe.








Hmmm before I have time to blog about our disney trip, I'm being fan by 4July long weekend trip..here life is really good, I only fan2 about trips and cooking, of cos $ too...heheh..

Los Angeles Trip 21-24Jun Part 2

Day 2- started with driving to Griffith Park Observatory for the hollywood sign, actually the sign can also be viewed from the Highland mall..





Griffith Park Observatory..8am+ in morning..still as hot!





Hollywood sign










We drove to chinatown after farmers market breakfast. It was quite a long drive and got lost over a few turn, and finally reach the chinatown...My goodness, it's even more lau yar than daddy's hometown ...it look very run down, no maintanence...After some search, we managed to find a proper place for dim sum...but the restaurant don't have air con..aiyo! It's at least 40C outside loh, luckily some of the dim sum are not bad...but couldn't eat much since so hot..hehe








After that, we drove over to anaheim about 30mins drive..and checked into hotel and zonk out..Then, visited the downtown disney, and had dinner, finally back to downtown disney to view the fireworks.






The fireworks at disneyland is everyday event..It's call "Remember...Dreams Come True" Fireworks Spectacular. It was pretty nice..but the next night when we watch it at Disneyland Main Street..the effect was magical. The fireworks show comes with story telling, music effect, and changing color of the castle...No words can describe how beauty that moment is...



But Jared don't like fireworks, he got scared easily with the pong sound..the moment fireworks starts he ask to go home...Pek chek..hehe

Los Angeles Trip 21-24Jun Part 1

I was really stressed up by this LA trip, didn't book anything till I came here..and together with taking care of Jared, cooking and still need to find time to research for the trip..quite tough..Glad that it went well though.

I knew way before we go that LA will be hot and keep suggesting to change location to San Francisco, but daddy think since we have been there, no point going there anymore. The weather was around 80-100F, approx 25-34degree all the time we were there. Hollywood area is hotter at about 90-100F, while anaheim 80-90F. Their weather is more humid, so most time it really felt like being in Singapore.

We've become more and more steady in term of packing, we only start pack after midnight after Jared slept, then leave the house at 6am for the 8.30am flight..hehe..so in the end we miss the toothbrush and my contact lens solution..So I had to wear sun glass on top of my normal glasses on 2nd day onwards hehe.

Their sun is very bright one, so glaring for the whole day till at least 6pm+..To make things worst, the malls are open air, other than those branded shops Gap, American eagle have sufficient aircon, the rest like souvenier shop along Hollywood, KFC, MacD in LA does not have aircon???!!...I couldn't believe it loh!

Hollywood & Highland Mall on hollywood area

Kodak Theathre

Walk of Fame, and Jared always looks gloomy and in his long sleeve pyjama, we carried him from bed to the airport, so didn't change him..Reached there hotel is not ready for us to check in.....

Ghee smile from Jared at Beverly Hills area. After checked in we went around driving at Rodeo drive, Bel-air to look at high end shopping and big massionate..the houses look real cool.

Rodeo drive views from car, difficult to find parking, too hot to walk..hehe..

After that, we drove to Santa Monica, their famous beach. Couldn't believe it can be so crowded..I've never seen such a big crowd on beach else where before..And it's under big hot sun somemore..Jared slept through the whole time we were at Santa Monica beach. Then we continued the drive to Venice beach, couldn't find parking(legal or illegal ones)...all of them required US10-15 parking fee...so we didn't get off the car..

Grauman Chinese Theathre

That's all we did for day 1..I think hollywood is really no big deal..hehe..

Rodeo Show, Pleasant Grove 20 Jun

Daddy brought us to catch a rodeo show which was held near our place, less than 5min drive.

I think it's like a cowboy show, its something different we can't catch easily in Singapore..not bad, but the show was a little too long 7.30pm to 10pm...I yawn a few times...hehe..especially when the animals doesn't cooperate, then not much fun watching.

The sitting area was like a open stairs...so it was quite dangerous, things dropped easily..like Jared lollipop...then we saw a little gal 1yr+ drop from the sitting which is at least 2meter high to the ground..It was scary moment, but lucky the gal can get up on her own..and cry a little, and then like nothing happens...steady loh!.

As for us, daddy held Jared even tighter after saw that.

Jared's favourite was the motorcycle stunt show.

The sheep show and video, kids supposed to compete and see how long they could ride on the sheep before being thrown off

The flag show

Happy Father's Day!

I forgot to post Jared's 1st pressie for me for mother's day. It's the artwork done in his new school. The teacher thought them to say, Happy Mother's day, mummy, I love you.

But he could never say it correctly..

He said all kind of combi like following:

Happy Birthday Mummy

Happy Mummy Birthday

Closest was Happy mummy's day! He knew the pressie belongs to me, so he doesn't tampered with it nor try to destroy it.

We are glad that we could celebrate Father's day together this yr. But we didn't do nothing much...just sumptious home breakfast (trying to clear off most expiring stuf-like the donuts, breads..heheh), then followed by outlet shopping. He hate shopping, only kept asking for going to toy store..make me real pek chek!..

We went for a good dinner though, at TGI Friday...I think there's this outlet in JB, but I never been there. Mains are quite cheap about 10-15USD.