After we left yellowstone, we began our travel journey. It was happy, but tiring. I didn't even have time to write blog, or to see my pictures. I wish i could write everything down, but the memory is not that fresh anymore...lol
Ok, our first stop is Las Vegas. We took plane from bozeman to vegas airport, and waited 3 hours in aiport for baojing's friend, weepoh who will travel together with us. Then we reached our hostel, called AAE Todds. Not a very nice place for me, as the hotel in bozeman was too good :p . After the check in procedure, we went to the old town of Vegas, to visit the Fremont street. We had an expensive buffet dinner in the Golden Nugget hotel...hohoho...the food was super delicious. I still remembered the big big strawberries and a lot of dessert that i bet no one will be able to finish them in one meal. After dinner we walked along the Fremont street, watched the very famous skyshow that Faith strongly recommended. First night in Vegas, i experienced the city life which is totally different from yellowstone. Everything was so colourful that it made my eyes couldn't stop blinking, and my mind couldn't stop accepting the new things.
2nd day. We started to explore the hotels. We took bus to the end of the "strip area" and visit every hotel one by one. OH MY GOODNESS~ Almost all hotels have their own theme, own design and own attraction. Everything was so beautiful. I love the music fountain show of Bellagio hotel very much. It was like someone dancing ballet very gracefully in front of u, touched ur heart with her performance. At the end of the show, the only word i wanna say is "Bravo!!" We also went to the top of paris hotel to watch the show at night. The night scene in vegas is super great. Really really amazing!
3rd day. Continue exploring the hotels. I was greatly impressed by The Venetian hotel which is a tiny Venice in vegas. At night, we went to watch an expensive show "Mama Mia". Wah very geng lo...the actors and actress sang and acted so good!!!
Vegas is a great place, especially for adults who are above 21. All the hotels have casino and nice buffet, and the night life there is really amazing, can say 越夜越精彩, until u forget what time to sleep and rest. However, for ppl who are below 21 like us, we couldn't book the nice and cheap hotel, we couldn't gamble, we might enjoy less thing compare to adults. So we couldn't do and try a lot of things because we are still underage. And we need to move our room everyday because our booking had some problem. This caused us wasted a lot of time, and then we couldn't go to vegas shopping outlet. Greyhound bus service is also sucks. This is the only thing that i'm very unsatisfied in usa.
So, the third night in vegas, we headed to los angeles by greyhound bus. The journey was torturing as the bus seat is really uncomfortable and crowded. The hostel in LA is like hotel. I like it very much. But the only problem is, we didn't have water supply there. And the indian receptionist know nothing. U ask her anything...she will reply u "i don't know"=.= We reached LA at 7am. After checked in, we went to hollywood universal studio. WAH WAH WAH, it was super fun!!! The shows were great, super super great!!! However, the distance between our hostel and universal studio cost us USD120 cab fees. Oh heartache T_T.
The second day, we went to disney adventure park. Disney adventure park is like an amusement park. It was fun, but my favourite is still the shows. Third day, disneyland. Wah it was super big that we couldn't finish visiting the whole disneyland in one day. The shows were more attracting, more charming and more amazing. My favourite is the fireworks behind the castle. Really really wonderful. Americans are so lucky to have these. Fourth day, shopping outlet!!! The distance is too far away. So we took 5 hours to go to the outlet center. We only had 5 hours to shop. Really not enough. We end up buying a lot of branded thing, but still not enough time to shop everything. I still have a lot of things to buy...but no time...aiks. Fifth day, Disneyland again! Finally we finished playing almost all the games, visiting all the attractions, taking all the photos and watching all the nice shows in half day. Guess what? We met liqi and shuyuan them half way. Met our yellowstone friends there also. LOL, what a coincidence! We watched the fireworks again at night...oh man..i love it so much!!!
The next day, we took amtrak train to our third stop which is San diego. Amtrak is very very good, 100% better than greyhound. Our hostel didn't have escalator T_T. We need to drag our heavy luggage to 4th floor, and we need to use public restroom to bath. But good thing is, we can have free breakfast in the hostel.
Our first day in San diego, we went to Seaworld. Wah wah wah, another great place to visit. I love to watch the shows very very very much!!! And again, we met liqi them...hahaha!! 2nd day, we went to the largest zoo in the world (told by shu yuan =.=) We can choose to visit either zoo or wild animal park with our city pass. Baojing and me wanted to go to wild animal park. But then finally we changed to zoo because shu yuan said it is a very famous attraction. I think the zoo is not very fun. But some funny things happened too. I guess that day is the sex period for animals. We saw tortoise had sex. And giraffe, the male giraffe kept pulling out its sex organ and wanted to make sex with the female giraffe. However, the shy female giraffe rejected him for hours already. We waited there for about 1 hour to see them make sex...lol...but finally we gave up. The organ really disgusting...me and baojing decided not to eat hotdog for half year after that =.=
That evening, we went to downtown of san diego for a walk. The scenery at the wharf was nice and comfortable. At night, our nightmare arrived. Greyhound. The bus drove from san diego to LA, we had to transfer bus to go to san francisco. The first bus late for one and half hour. We missed the bus to SF and need to wait 4 more hours for another bus. @#$%! It caused us wasted half day in san francisco. Yucks i hate greyhound.
New hostel is nice, even though we also have to use public restrooms. Free breakfast provided too. The first day in san francisco, we went to fisherman's wharf, visited wax museum and walked along the wharf. Weird thing is, the shops closed very early. Even downtown of SF, the shops closed at 9sth. So nothing much to see at night. Second day, we took a ship to watch the very famous golden gate bridge in SF. We wanted to visit Alcatraz prison on the island but the tickets sold out. After that we went to chinatown. To my surprise, a lot of shops closed at 6pm. Surprisingly early @_@. 3rd day, we bike to golden gate bridge. The scenery was fantastic along the bicycle trail. The bungalows along the bridge are all very pretty and unique. Baojing kept saying that she wanted to stay in SF and open a chinese medicine shop there in the future...lol. We went to chinatown again to buy ginseng and had dinner. Later on we walked to Lombard street to see the very special road in SF. San francisco is really a beautiful place, with beautiful buildings, beautiful streets and beautiful wharf.
Finally, my usa journey come to an end. I can't believe it! Oh my goodness, 3 months gone. I headed to taiwan with a very weird feeling. I don't know whether i feel sad or what. But i'm very sure that i will miss usa very very much. I will miss yellowstone life, my new friends and the very precious experience that i had in this country.
Taipei. Jiayen's passport got problem. So left me and baobao travel together, and shu yuan will join us in the second day. My cousin call ah yen, english name is christina. We stayed in her house in taipei. The first two days in taipei, we went shopping and eating with her. She is so kind to us that we didn't even spend a single cent in food and cab fees. She knows nike manager in taipei. We bought nike with 50% discount...wah so syok!!! She brought us to a lot of shopping places. But those shops are very expensive compare to usa, we end up buy nothing in taiwan...lol
The third day, baojing, shuyuan and I go to Danshui. We went to the fisherman's wharf and the old street to eat things. Hmm...fisherman's wharf is not fun...compare to usa. The food not bad, but weather was too hot, we had not much mood to eat and play. The stupid weather made us very tired. However, we met a nice aunty half way. She treated us "muachi" and chit-chatted with us in a restaurant. The fourth day, we went to Jiufen. The most attracting thing is food. We eat non-stop along the street, bought a bit souvenirs, took a bit pictures, hmm my conclusion is, jiufen better than danshui...lol
So this is really the end of my travel journey. School started, i skipped one week to go home, no hostel, stress come back again T_T But i gained a lot from work and travel. Oh, wish i could have chance to go again.
