Thanksgiving

Few more days to Thanksgiving, shopping list is increasing. But of course, the main priority is to get a good outerwear for Mummy-to-be. Loves from Dad to be. 

Kyrie, Love, Lebron @ Utah

After checking the Jazz schedule in NBA, we spent no time and bought two tickets to watch the Cavaliers visit to Utah. 

Utah, the nearest place to watch NBA, is 5 hours away from Mountain Home. I have never looked forward to drive to Salt Lake City as much as this one. Never in my life I would imagine that I could watch Lebron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love live! 

The game began at 7pm but Ju and I were there early to take pictures around the arena. It is Ju's first NBA game but she wasn't as excited at first. She assumed it was the same as the D-League till the game enters the second half. 

The arena was packed and the crowd were awesome with most supporting the home team and only a handful supported the Cavaliers. We managed to catch some close glimpse of Kyrie Irving who was training hard way before the game. His hardworking paid off as he was the top performer for the Cavaliers. Lebron's performance was below par even though he got them back to the game late in last quarter and score last 6 crucial points. The game was thrilling as the Jazz and Cavaliers were tied at 100 with 3.9 seconds to go and Jazz had the possession. Gordon Hayward took a pass and score a buzzer beater to win the game for Jazz. 

The whole arena roared as if the Jazz had won the NBA finals! This game worth every penny we spent! Love it! 

Happy Deepavali

It's the festival of lights celebrated by our Indian counterpart and there a awesome celebration for them! Great job to the committee who brought this festival to life in America!

Day 5 to 7: Historical Visit to DC

Been busy and lazy lately . Here's our trip to Washinngton DC. 

Washington DC, the capital of the United States where the most important figure of world stayed in and a city of historical monuments. 

We visited lots of monuments during our 3 days stay and had a walking tour around the National mall. We learnt so much about the National Mall, the White House, Lincoln Memorial etc. It's totally worth it! 

We started our day full of laughter. We rented a car which we don't need and it was super small! The car was a Chevy and gosh, it was the size of a Cherry QQ. We couldn't keep all the luggage in the boot and had to carry it on our thighs. Even the front seat!!

After settling down, we went to the Lincoln Memorial in the evening. The night scenery there was breathtaking! It was very beautiful! 

The rest of our tour we were visiting famous monuments like the Washington Monument, the Marine Corps Memorial, Pentagon Memorial and also the Smitsonian Museum. It was like a history tour for us. Of course we did not forget about shopping there as we visited the Tanger Outlet which was 40 minutes away and Georgetown. 

We really enjoyed very much in this tour. We laughed so hard at times and it was really fun! 

P.S. 7 to 8 weeks. Excited! God bless them with good health! 

Day 4: Cont.... 2.. Empire State Building

I'll try to complete day 4. I'm slightly awake as I had a nap till 9pm after work. 

There are two famous tall buildings in New York and we chose the Empire State Building as it is more popular. However, I thought it was a bad choice as the scenery at Rockefeller Centre is way better. 

I thought the ticket to go all the way up to the Empire State Building was a little expensive. It was twice the price of the Rockefeller Centre. 

I would highly recommend to visit Rockefeller instead of The Empire State Building. That day, the top of the building was lighted with blue lights as the New York Yankees most popular player, Derek Jeter, retires. That's all and nothing special. Besides the poor scenery, the top was packed with tourists. Nevertheless, we still managed to take some photos! 

P.S. Lebron, Kyrie, Love, Burke and Waiters, we are seeing you in Utah!

Day 4: (Continue)

Alright! It's pretty late now. Ju made some curry puffs and I'll update later. Anyway, I'll continue the New York trip. After the visit to 9/11 site, we made our way to the Brooklyn Bridge just to take some pictures! There's nothing much there unless you want to walk all the way to Brooklyn. 

Thereafter, we left downtown New York to the famous Grand Central. Our initial plan was to take a break in the hotel first before going to Grand Central. Thanks to the ever confusing MTA, we went straight to Grand Central as we mistook the express transit. 

When we reached there, we were already pretty tired. The early tour to Statue of Liberty really made us lose our sleep. The Grand Central was very crowded and Ju and I didn't really took a pic as we had a small argument. Maybe we were too tired. Despite going back to the hotel, we pressed on to the Empire State Building.

P.S. Falling asleep.... Argh.... It's just Thursday..... 

Day 4: New York

Have some catching up to do. Been really tired but I'm going to update this post. The most interesting part of the trip and seeing the real New York. 

Day 4 in New York was a fruitful one. Right in the morning, we travelled all the way to Battery Park and to Statue of Liberty tour. How can you considered you come to US without visiting the icon of freedom. 

After the visit,we headed to a Lobster shack for lunch. The place was highly rated and to our surprise, it was like a mini cafe with limited seats and it's ain't cheap! However, the lobster roll ( lobster tail meat with butter between a bread roll) was delicious! It was very fresh even though the portion was small (just about 15cm long). After a quick bite, continued our tour to the Wall Street. 

To get a chance to stand in front of the iconic charging bull without many other tourists is really hard to come by. This shot was perfectly taken by Nisha. After taking photo with the charging bull, we made our way to the place where the most significant event had happened in Sep 11, 2001.

There should have two high rise had not the terrorism attack happened on that fateful day. Innocent lives were taken and from two high rise, it became two beautiful memorial. We visited the Tribute center for 9/11 and it really hurt to see so many innocent people passed on and missing during the terrorist attack. 

Argh... My eyes can't opened anymore. Going to bed. Update more tmr! 

P.S. Ju, I love you!