Made cup noodles for breakfast and then met up with HC for some last minute sightseeing.
Olvera Street
We spent some time walking around Olvera Street.One of the recommended places to walk through. It turned out to be a little bland. Cos Olvera Street turned out to be a mini Mexico, a place where I just came from! Haa…Trinkets sold there were almost like what I saw in Mexico, except triple the price.
Chinatown, Little Tokyo
Then we took a quick drive through the few streets of what they call Chinatown. Oh well, the usual stuff, clothes stores selling cheongsams, lots of restaurants, some medicinal shops, some massage parlours, some temples and worship places, etc.
The only difference about this Chinatown was that it was not only Chinese shops which were there. It had a whole host of Vietnamese, Thai and Cambodian restaurants/shops as well.
Soon, it was time to bid farewell to the streets of LA and to head to the airport for our flight home…
Los Angeles Airport
The drive from downtown LA to the airport took roughly 30 minutes. I thought it was relatively fast…J Returned the rental car at the Hertz return car centre and then caught a shuttle bus to our international flights terminal.
Was in the midst of checking-in our luggage when OMG it was discovered that HC’s luggage was too heavy. It was 32kg, 7 kg more than the maximum allowed. My luggage was light. The officer asked us to rearrange our luggage I.E. transfer some of HC’s stuff to my bags…
So embarrassing. We were squatting at a conspicuous corner with our luggages thrown wide open. HC was frantically doing repacking of his luggage. My task was just to throw whatever he passed to me into my luggage. After more than 15mins, we finally went through the baggage check-in…
Moral of the story?? Don’t buy tons of toiletries when you’re touring another country…zzzz….I think HC is more than a shopper than I am lor….zzz.. haha..He bought at least 6 500ml bottles of body lotions and shower gels for his wife…
The flight home took about 17-plus hours, including an hour-long stopover at Tokyo Narita Airport.. haha. And this time round, I watched the following shows:
- Australia (Finished the second half of the show)
- Scandal Makers (Korean show…damn funny)
- The Butterfly Lovers (Chinese show..teenybopper idols acting in a period drama…very strange)
- The Women (a Meg Ryan girl power show on the bonds between 4 women but seriously lacking the sassiness and fashion sense of Sex & The City)
- The first 30 minutes of Happy Feet
Hmm, which makes it a total of at least 10 full shows on both to & fro journeys. Haa…
Home Sweet Home
Touched down in SG on 130am on 11 March (Wednesday)…Home sweet home.
Spent some time talking to the parents and unpacking. Did not sleep till 5am...after which I woke at 9am.
I expect some serious jetlagging for the next few days..
Mum & Dad were there to fetch me…:)
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