San Francisco

Before we came back to Canada, we stopped over at San Francisco. This was the last trip before I go back to work. It seems so fast that it's been a year and now it's almost time to go back to work.

Since there's like 9 hours in time difference between Hong Kong and San Francisco, we were all very sleepy for the 3 days that we stayed there. We rented a car for the first day and we went to Santa Rosa for the Snoopy Museum and the Golden Gate Bridge and the rest of the days we stayed there, we just simply walked around since the hotel that we stayed at was very close by China Town and very convenient to take transportation to other places.

Taiwan

For part of our Asia trip, we went to Taiwan as well. We stayed there for one week and my hubby kept on saying that we have to come back there to visit there sometime. He really loves the food there.

The tall building at the back is Taipei 101 building which is the landmark of Taipei:

At the night market:

Then we headed down to the South to Kenting:

At the resort that we stayed:

At the train station:

We stopped over at a place that I think is near Kaoshuing:

Hong Kong and Japan

In October, we travelled again (and yes, it seemed like I did travel a lot before my maternity leave ended). This time, we headed to Asia and went to Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan. These cities were very crowded and busy and we had a lot of great food there.

Visiting temples in Japan:

Picture taken at the Japanese style hotel that we stayed:

We were having a lot of fun in Disneyland, Hong Kong:

New York and Boston

At the end of September, we drove down to New York and Boston. This is the first time that my baby girl went there and we had lots of fun!

At the harbourfront in Boston:

At Boston Common (I think that's what it is called):

At Times Square:

At Central Park:

L.A. and Las Vegas

Here we travelled again in July! This time we flew to Newport Beach, L.A. and then rented a car to travel around the places nearby.

We went to San Diego, Santa Monica, Disney downtown and Las Vegas and had some great

shopping atshopping at outlet mall too!

Picture at MGM Grand and M&M Store in Las Vegas:

I am really lucky to get a seat on the flight!

Picture at Premium Outlet while mommy got her shopping done!

Our trip to Osaka, Japan - Part 2

I have been very busy and it's been a long time to write any blog posts.

I will post pictures for the places that we had been to and hope that when I have time, I will come back and write down the places that we went to since we went there in May, 2010.

This a picture that we took at the outdoor hot spring of the hotel that we stayed! Really love it! It's about two hours bus ride from Osaka and definitely worth the travel time!

We went to a zoo nearby the town that we stayed near the hotel and one part of was like Amusement park. Too bad that we need to catch the 3:00 pm bus to another places, if not, we will for sure stay there for a longer time. The picture on the left, we took it outside the Osaka train station which was 5 minutes away from the hotel that we stayed. The hotel was really good since it has a mini hot spring on the top floor and we enjoyed it very very much!

We also went to Kyoto where there's many ancient Japanese temples there. We went there by train and it's less than an hour train ride from Osaka if I remembered it correctly.

We also went to a place that's like a studio where there's streets like ancient Japan, mini live shows to watch (and you don't really need to know Japanese to watch those and you will understand what they are doing from their body language). And there's a large exhibition of ultraman in that studio and that's one of the reasons why we went there as my hubby is a big fan since he was a kid.

We also went to Nara which is also less than an hour train ride from Osaka. There's many temples there as well.

We really had a great time in Japan and I look forward to going there again!

Our Japan trip - Osaka - Part 1

I left this post in draft form for quite sometime already and it's finally time to finish it up (well at least for the Part 1)!

I went to Tokyo before and I absolutely love this place!

This year, thanks to Air Canada's buy one get one free deal (because of Canada won gold medal in Winter Olympic, this was one of the promotions), we decided to go to Asia and Japan was one of the stop. This time, we went to Osaka and surrounding area. We had also decided that we were going to bring our baby with us as well.

We were lucky enough to get the seats with the bassinet and therefore, during the long flights, my baby were able to sleep a few times and not really too cranky overall during the flights.




We took the airport bus to our hotel as with a baby with us, we did not want to lift our luggage and stroller going up and down by taking the train. My hubby had booked the hotel right next to the airport bus stop and thus it's only 1 minute walking to the hotel after we got off.

We stayed in Osaka for a few days and we just simply browsed around the area near the hotel and then headed to other surrounding area. (To be continued)