"Knowing it for sure in my heart that my family, especially her, would always be right there waiting for me to come back home was a good enough reason to keep me going every day. =) "
On the last day of our tour, I was beyond thrilled to have the chance to set foot into Yosemite National Park, the place where Apple named one of its OS X operating systems after. We made a quick stop at Yosemite Falls, one of the highest waterfalls in the world, before heading to a platform that offered one of the most beautiful views on earth.
It was mind-blowing as I watched the desktop wallpaper on my Mac materialize before my very own eyes and the picturesque view itself felt more like an exotic painting frozen in time rather than a real scenery. I knew I said this about almost every single place that I had been to but the spectacular landscape literally did take my breath away.
Once again, natural world wonder proved to me that it would never ever fail to keep surprising and impressing me and I truly hoped that I would be able to visit more inspiring places like this in the near future. =)
On the last day of our tour, I was beyond thrilled to have the chance to set foot into Yosemite National Park, the place where Apple named one of its OS X operating systems after. We made a quick stop at Yosemite Falls, one of the highest waterfalls in the world, before heading to a platform that offered one of the most beautiful views on earth.
It was mind-blowing as I watched the desktop wallpaper on my Mac materialize before my very own eyes and the picturesque view itself felt more like an exotic painting frozen in time rather than a real scenery. I knew I said this about almost every single place that I had been to but the spectacular landscape literally did take my breath away.
Once again, natural world wonder proved to me that it would never ever fail to keep surprising and impressing me and I truly hoped that I would be able to visit more inspiring places like this in the near future. =)
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| The cascading Yosemite Falls. |
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| The lower part of Yosemite Falls up close. |
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| All of us by the Falls. |
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| The surreal breathtaking view of Yosemite Valley. |
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| Family photo again! |
After the SF getaway, we planned a day trip to Downtown LA. We're lost when we first got into the city but luckily we made it to our first destination, the California Science Centre in the end. To me, it was an interesting place where one could easily spend the whole day exploring as there were literally lots of stuff to see and do.
The beautiful aquarium easily stood as my personal favourite spot of the attraction and I would not mind at all to watch the fishes swimming above and in front of me all day long. We did take a good amount of time wandering around the big building before we had ice cream and made our way back to the city centre.
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| The entrance. |
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| Magnificient was the word for it. |
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| We're on TV! |
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| Nervous but excited. |
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| Too much to do with too little time. |
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| Jellyfish! |
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| Cute little thingy. |
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| Staring curiously right into the camera. |
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| Blue. |
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| My favourite spot of CSC. |
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| Me and my Minion ice-cream outside CSC. |
Later that day, we had a walk around LA and all my siblings were super duper excited when we reached Staples Centre. However, I personally preferred the streets outside Grammy Museum more where the important records of each year's Grammy award winners could be found. Before we called it a day, we also visited Little Tokyo and had our dinner at China Town.
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| Arguably the famous building in LA. |
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| Heaven for basketball fans. |
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| Not a basketball fan but still lucky to be here. |
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| Posing like a fan. |
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| Found my favourite thing along the way. |
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| Outside the Grammy Museum. |
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| LAPD. |
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| Walt Disney Concert Hall. |
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| My nightmare. |
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| Little Tokyo. |
Needless to say, one of the things that I most looked forward to would be Mummy's cooking. It felt like forever since I had any of her tasty home-cooked meals. Besides that, I got to sample many different types of food that my siblings recommended and at the same time satisfied a lot of my food cravings. Guiltily, I guessed I got a little bit carried away and put on an extra few pounds of weight over the past few weeks.
On top of that, we had a karaoke session and went to watch the movie Jurassic World together after Thai food. However, we had no choice but to queue for quite a long while since the whole world and their grandmother decided that it was the must-watch movie of the summer.
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| Prawn noodles by Mummy. |
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| Fried noodles. |
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| The famous burgers loved by all celebrities. |
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| Restaurant voucher by MW. |
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| Nice night out. |
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| Fried rice by Mummy. |
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| Great food and great company. |
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| Healthy home-cooked food every day. |
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| My favourite Vege. =) |
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| K Session with siblings. |
Before I flew back to the UK, I returned to Huntington Garden for my sibling's project and the guard was kind enough to let us sneak into Herb Garden to complete his assignment although it was closed for the day. Also, all of us spent a nice and relaxed day around Hollywood after DimSum and visited three Museums in a single day. Daddy's hilarious video clip at one of the museums would always remain a classic in my heart.
In the blink of an eye, it was already time for me to go back to Nottingham. It was definitely hard to say goodbye to my family especially when I had only spent a few short weeks with them. Knowing that I would miss them more than anything in this world, reluctantly I got into the cab that took me straight to the airport and I could only hoped that it would not take me another two years to be able to be back to see my family again.
Goodbye LA for now. Hello, London and Nottingham. =)
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| The Chinese Garden. |
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| The Japanese Garden. |
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| Lunch by the lake. |
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| Arrived at Hollywood! |
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| Would love to watch this film one day. |
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| My favourite brilliant actress. |
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| In one of the museums in Hollywood. |
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| Robot from Star Wars. |
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| My cute youngest brother in the Wax Museum. |
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| Taytay.. |
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| The contest that we all lost in the end. =( |
In the blink of an eye, it was already time for me to go back to Nottingham. It was definitely hard to say goodbye to my family especially when I had only spent a few short weeks with them. Knowing that I would miss them more than anything in this world, reluctantly I got into the cab that took me straight to the airport and I could only hoped that it would not take me another two years to be able to be back to see my family again.
Goodbye LA for now. Hello, London and Nottingham. =)
Sparks - Hilary Duff