Why not have something from summer last year, the first time I hung out with Bernie. It was during the Paddle Surf event at the Santa Monica Pier:
I’m waiting for summer to come round the corner. :)
So. Bernie asked if I wanted to go to a park one day. I didn’t realise it was Griffith park– I’d walked that route before last year. XD
Rich people’s houses and their monstrous shrubbery.
Possibly the best sign ever!
I term this the Slab of Chocolate garage door.
Quirky storybook houses.
The guy passing by interrupted my attempt at getting a self-timed shot with random remarks. XD
I get called Olive by my parents sometimes, because of my physical similarity to a certain pencil-figured character from Popeye.
✿ floral dress, leatherette jacket: forever21
✿ olive stirrup tights: top20 in singapore
✿ flats: small shop in buenos aires
Here I am, working on my forty-fifth molar grind of food morsel.
I made a point of counting how many times Aless chewed a bite of his pizza yesterday, because I’ve noticed the terrifying pattern where he finishes all six slices of a 6″ pizza when I’m only just done with two slices of the same-sized specimen. I admit I’m one of the slower eaters at the table, but still.
The experiment was a failure, largely because I stated my intent beforehand, and he ended up chewing a lot more, claiming that he had taken a particularly large bite of pizza. I’m still skeptical of that. XD
I dreamt of home this morning.
Stitched from four photos from two years ago, in Singapore.
Our original trip to the Grand Canyon was cancelled the day before, due to the 100% chance of precipitation. But Ade wouldn’t have any of that, and we managed to book another trip which said they would go, rain or shine.
And so we woke up the next day just as the sun was beginning to rise:
Our tour package included a little bit of breakfast. Spottled, yellow, curved-shaped fruit was brought over from Los Angeles though. :P
Scenery en route to the Grand Canyon, a.k.a. Arizona’s Famous Crack In The Earth:
Looks like our precipitation turned white and fluffy. XDD
We had vouchers for entrance to the Grand Canyon Skywalk and for lunch at the ranch.
We had to store all personal belongings in the lockers before entering the Skywalk, but here’s a picture of the Skywalk if you haven’t been to the wiki page yet.
And a picture of us by their professional photographers at the Skywalk, with funky slippers over our shoes to protect the clarity of the glass we were walking on.
This was generally how my face looked at the Grand Canyon. Ade said I needed sunglasses to shield my eyeballs from the wind. I had to concur.
Note Ade’s open-toed flats. WE WERE SO UNDERDRESSED.
And my favourite part of visiting the Grand Canyon:
We were very amused by Ade’s attempts at getting the horse she was petting to be photogenic.
I was afraid of them. They were gigantic horses. And the horse I molested, eyed me like it was smarter than it seemed to be letting on. But I’ve always loved my shaggy-maned, generously-endowed, hooved beasts, so.
Pictorial evidence to justify my totally unexaggerated description of how monstrous in size these horses were. XDD
The people at the ranch let us take photographs sitting upon a placid, short horse for free. We had to sign a liability form first though. I noticed that the horse’s right eye was cast in a film of white, and I wondered aloud if it had cataracts. Do horses get cataracts? Apparently they do.
And then we headed out of the canyon and onto the Hoover Dam. But first, a stopover:
Hoovering at the dam.
Photos without the watermark were taken by Ade.
I think I’m taking after Mum in terms of time-elasticity… a large part of that was probably my reclusive funk as of late. But here is part one of two of the Vegas trip in photos!
I couldn’t live without my laptop. That, coupled with my very metal-laden SLR in that bag, meant a half hour walk of doom, sweat and roar.
Ade and I stayed at the MGM Grand, a.k.a. That Green Building. I admit I couldn’t see it until the last night because I only noticed the exterior of the hotel in the mornings, when it was blue.
It was St. Patrick’s Day during the weekend, so a lot of people wore green on Saturday. My housemate scared me into packing something green because she said I would get pinched by strangers if I didn’t. Even Krispy Kreme had green-themed donuts! ♥
Ade and I were one of the first to get tickets for Cirque Du Soleil’s Kà for that night!
We headed down to Hotel Aria for a buffet dinner (boasting seafood) before catching Kà:
Aria gastronomy heaven part one: Crab legs. This was our second serving of crustacean limbs.
Ade had grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed.
Aria gastronomy heaven part two: Desserts.
And then, under the urging of Ade, we went back to change into something more classy for the performance:
A sneak shot of the amazing rotating platform in the back of the stage. It was spectacular how the performers flew and climbed like spiders on gravity-defying vertical.
These structures were located on both sides of the theatre, and performers flew from the railings before the show started. Also, there were bird kites. ♥
Post-show, and buffet evidence still hadn’t disappeared from my stomach. XD
I wanted to take some pictures down the long and dimly-lit hallways of the hotel we were staying at. XDD
Finally, the most beautifully-decorated hotel in Las Vegas, Hotel Bellagio:
Even the store-windows look so pretty!
Also, the following is vaguely related, but I miss Singapore. Nothing spells home like food, eating food with friends, and my home toilet.
Happy Easter, my dear chocolate bunnies!
Here, have something about Las Vegas after all these weeks, video-editing inertia and all.
Will have pictures soon~