1st day (Sat) - we went up to craters of the moon to view the scenery.. However the weather that day wasn't that good.. Raining day... -_-" So we just went to the vistor centre.. Due the date that we choose to travel happen to be weekend for father's day, thus all national park is free.. Yuppie... Save on the entrance fee...
But we just drove ard the park and off we travel to Yellowstone, Montana. Of cos in the middle we got stop for lunch at pizza hut.. Luckily the town that we went having some air show.. so we managed to watch some plane flying..
Off to Montana....
Once we checked in to our Inn, after a standard 30 mins rest, we chiong straight to the Yellowstone National Park. Woo hooo.... Though it is still raining but it doesn't stop us for exploring... We see alot of gysters which are pretty cool and new to us... We even went to the Old faithful to watch the show... Super duper a must to go when touring to Yellowstone....
Yellowstone stretch over 3 states - Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, thus you can imagine how big it is..
We just travel as much as we could during the 1st day... Ate at the old faithful inn.. Bought some postcards (postcard become a must for hubby and i to buy)... Then we went back Inn to slp...
2nd Day - Went to one breakfast shop to eat.. Yummy food... Too bad din take photos of that.. humpz... Drove straight to Yellowstone.. Continue our lower loop of the national park... Went to see more gysters, more pretty scenery.. Still a raining day.. Plus super cold at there...
We saw quite alot of animals... Wild one... Quite cool sia... Lol...
We went to eat dinner at some steak resturant.. Though i cannot eat beef, but they serve great pork chop... Hehheheh... (^.^)v After which we went to one small casino to play.. Of cos i went to play slot machine... Sheba and Mark teach us how to play.. I used $1 to play... Lady luck is with me.. I am the 1st to play, last to play finish. Somemore i manage to win $2.75... Lol... Exclude my $1 liao... Cos i just play small small, 5 cents bet... Hahahha.. Hubby in the end oso win back what he lost...
3rd day - Checked out of our Inn after a wonderful breakfast. The weather become more kind to us.. Quite sunny... Yesh... Of cos we go into Yellowstone but this time round we went to upper loop... Way more animals to see... We even managed to see black bear and cub.. Cool right... And the ranger is just there to help control the crowd... We snapped some photos and off to see Mammoth.. In the mid we saw one big crowd of ppl.. Now we know if we see big crowd = got animal ard.. So we asked one lady and she told us got grizzy bear... WT..... We dashed to see but not in luck.. We are one step late.. -_-" i want to see bear bear.. sob sob...
We leave Yellowstone for Cody, Wyoming.. Really a nice place... More better than ermmm.. you can guess where i wanna refer to... In fact we wanna catch the Rodeo.. But when we reach there about nearly time for the show to start... So we decided to give it a miss and catch it when we come back from Mount Rushmore... The hotel person recommend us the best steak resturant in town.. And boy.. it is really nice.. My salmon taste cripsy.. but abit fishy for me.. humpz..
4th day - checked out after breakfast and off we go to Rapid city at South Dakota... We stop by to eat lunch at the applebees... Back to travelling and once we checked into the hotel, straight we went to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. 1st time in our trip that i changed to shorts... lol... Took quite alot of photos.. and we ate at a nearby old town.. Keystone..
5th day - We went to bear country... Alot of animals.. Esp BEAR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wooohooo... the bears are all walking freely... We just have to stay in our car and make sure all window are up... if not.. hei hei... SOme of the bears super cute lo... Lol.. we even see the cubs.. and they are all so naughty... play and beating ard... Hahahhaha.. Hubby bought one black bear soft toy for me.. Named it Chao Ta... Hahhahah..
Then we went to gold mine tour and panning.. Luck wasn't that good.. lol... But it is the experience that we enjoy most... At night we went to a pub to eat our dinner and chill out...
6th Day - We drove to Cody as we gg back home soon... Managed to catch Rodeo and also a react of past western day shooting... Really quite fun and scary.. cos the shooting real one.. the sound la... not bullet.. hahhah.. the actors and actress all very funny... At the rodeo being known as the american best rodeo city, truely we see those wild bull and horses in action.. phews... Way to go to all the riders... This day is oso the day that we know that Micheal Jackson had passed away.. We happen to on our radio when we driving to Cody... Rest in peace MJ..
7th Day - Off we went past Yellowstone and went to Grand Teton National Park.... Luckily we managed to see the mountains... And after we visited the vistor centre, storm arrived... Are we in luck... Lol.. Wanted to stop at Jackson but the storm really quite terrible... So we press on to Idaho Falls.. At there we checked in to our hotel and i discover that my favourite belt spoilt.. Sob sob.. i bought it from taipei.. Hubby say i can go buy when i go there with Yao yao... Lol..
Sheba found online one thai resturant.. Great that we went there... The food is really good.. And the portion is HUGE... REAL HUGE... The four of us stunned when the food is being served... Had a big laugh and ourselves good luck... Of cos cannot finish the food...
Then we went to Walmart to buy some beers... We decided to drink as to celebrate our trip... Invited Mark and Sheba to our room and drink... Played Big Old 2.. I pretty sucks at it... keep losing and drinking.. Hhahahhaa... But overall quite fun la...
8th Day - Reach Mountain Home at 6pm.. In total we travelled 2220 miles... Mostly drove by Mark.. Thank you so much..
Must really thanks Sheba for planning the trip and Mark for driving us ard...
After we reached home.. I fall sick straight.. --_--"
I keep vomiting and hubby tot due to i watch comedy as i laughing at the show.. -_-"
The next day i feel more worse.. after buying grocery from commiss, i straightly cannot get out of bed... i keep running to toilet to vomit... Whateve i drink or eat, all donated back to toilet... In the end ard evening time, hubby rushed me to the Urgent centre in the hospital.. Doc suspect stomach flu... gave me strong medicine which after i ate, i feel drowsy...
Hubby took 1 day off to stay home look after me... Thanks hubby...
Tues miss out my gym session.. Still recovering from the sick..
Friday starting of the long weekend... As July 4th is Independent's Day... But we din go out... Cos hubby turn to fall sick... Stay home on friday...
Sat we went to boise and i managed to buy 2 belt.. One CK and one Nine West.. Super CHEAP!!!!!!!!! loving the 2 belt i bought. Then we went to Dave's house in Mountain Home Town... As got fireworks display...
He cooked super delicious Baby pork ribs... And introduce us to all the american food that we seen on TV...
As now is summer time, sunset is ard 10pm.. Thus we went to play fireworks outside his house after 10pm... These are things that we cannot enjoy back home... They bought alot of fireworks to play.. But we got to stop for the real fireworks display... We can enjoy the super nice fireworks without squeezing with ppl...
Go back home and discover something.. I fall sick le.. -_-" i just merely recovered from my previous sickness for 3 days and now i fall sick again.. So suey sia.. This time round is sore throat and cough....
Sunday after buying grocery, rest day for me again...
Monday night hubby and i decided to go for a stroll.. We bring rocky together with us... We walked all the way to Jerry's House.. Hahhaha..
Quite fun having a night stroll.. the weather feel so cooling... Should go for more of these strolls...
Tml is friday liao... Gg to do manicure and buy some items for Sat...
Super nervous for our Saturday photography session... Pretty new to me.. Hope the weather is nice and everything goes smoothly.. Keep my fingers crossed now...
Phew, i have updated my blog finally.. Don complain liao oh.. lol..