Weekend

On Saturday, wy and I headed down to Desert Hills Factory Outlets. There were so many stores there, and all are supposedly factory outlets! Ran a few errands for those who asked me to buy stuffs for them. Includes fossil watches, coach bags and gucci pouches etc. Haha. Am on a tight budget here, so didn't dare spend much. But I got a great deal for an Armani Watch which I had been eyeing in Singapore. The price was abt SGD350 and I got it for USD99. Hahaha. The must buys are the fossil watches, some are like 2 for USD 39.99!!!

The location of the factory outlet was abt 90 mins drive from LA, to a place called Cabazon. The drive there was hot too! And the area was nothing but sandy dunes and hills. Nothing but yellow highlands and lowlands. And the stores are right smack in the middle of this. No wonder it's called desert hills. Because it is like a desert!

Halfway through shopping, there was a sandstorm kicking up. Everything looked blustery. Hot air was blowing all around. You can literally feel the warm wind blowing at your face non-stop. And because of the environment, I could feel sand around me. I swear I could taste them in my mouth. The scary part was when I kept hearing the people around me saying the word "typhoon". Haha. Wenyao and I got abit worried seriously. Lucky, nothing happened!

Went to Sizzler for dinner after that. The price is slightly cheaper than Singapore's (I'm not sure if they still have it there though..haha). The salad bar has more than salad, thought I saw fried foods (again!) as well. Hah, but we didn't add on the salad bar cos the mains were more than enough. The people we've met are really friendly, esp restaurants. Maybe it's cos they were working for the tips. Haha.

On Sunday, we headed for Universal Studios. This is the shortest drive ever! 20 mins only. Never been so glad. And can you imagine I'm not even driving. Haha. It's boring to sit in the car!!!

Went through some of the rides and shows. Very interesting. But I guess kids would like it better. Haha. Watched a 4D short screening of Shrek. You can feel the mucus when donkey sneezes. Gross. We also caught a live performance of Fear Factor. They had to drink a smoothie of Cockroaches, worms, pig gluts, sour milk, etc etc. It was eeky just seeing the blender blend them all together! One of the nice parts were when we took the universal tours and the special effects section. I got a glimpse of Wysteria Lane (Desperate Housewives)!!! Haha, too part it was only a small part because the whole set was closed to outsiders. I took pictures with a few characters too, with SPONGEBOB!!! Too bad Patrick wasn't there. Haha. I got a cute spongebob waterbottle. Only kids were carrying that, and the only adults carrying it were the kids' parents. Haha. Think they must be thinking I am overtly childish! But it's so cute!

After Universal Studios, we headed to take a picture of the Hollywood sign. Haha, then we got lost amongst the residential areas at the hills. The roads were so narrow, the car can barely squeeze through! We got into turns and turns and still couldn't get out! Imagine my shock when the GPS said "turn right after 2km". I went like "there's 2km of this narrow roads?!"

Went for a short walk at Hollywood after that. Loads of people basking on the streets. Took a picture with Zorro and sone evil character. Wasn't going to take pics with them. I wanted to take a pic of the whole background, which was Graumann's Chinese Theatre, when Zorro said "Ni Hao" and offered to take a pic with me. They were after tips actually. Haha. But they were a fun bunch of people!

I realised the parking in LA is super expensive. The parking at Hollywood is 10 bucks! 15 mins is 2 bucks and the max is 10. You could acutally park along the streets, but if they weren't available, then it's back to parking at 10-14 bucks per slot! Imagine paying SGD 16-22 bucks for parking in singapore!

We headed to Chop Chop, a chinese restaurant @ Westwood, near the apartment for dinner. Wenyao said the curry chicken he was eating was good. He's so easily satisfied! The curry is jap style, and there was so many clumps of undissolved curry. Haha. On the safer side, I had chicken and mushroom noodles. The soup was good, but there was something wrong with the noodles. They were way too thick and taste funny. Haha, I am so hard to pleased. One thing good, the soy milk taste exactly like Singapore! Wenyao had to gulp down everything so he could take a free refill, altough he was totally full from his rice! Haha. He took me there just so he could drink soy milk!

Now's Monday afternoon at 2pm. Wenyao and the rest are in school. Waiting for him to come back so we can head for lunch then to the beach. Should be going Venice beach, heard it's a great place!

Will be travelling to Las Vegas tomorrow for the next 3 days. Hope it will be as exciting!