Saturday, June 30, 2007

Washington District of Columbia 1

On the 25th June, my Goddess and her group of friends decided to visit DC for 2 days.

The DC gang

First, they headed to the Old Post Office.

Sights of and from the Old Post Office

Then they went to White House Visitor Centre.


Pictures of how the White House look like inside

The White House looks really big and grand. Too bad they didn't have a chance to tour around the inside. In order to tour in the compound, application has to be sent in at least 6 months in advance with loads and loads of documents. So this is the closest view of the White House as they can get.

This is the closest we can get!

More views of DC

And then, the US Archives - archives on everything about the US, from its Constitution to it Ammendments, Bill, history of the presidents of US, and even classified data on the Titanic, Apollo 13 and the death of John F Kennedy.



Rotunda for the Charters of Freedeom - the place where the original Constitution is kept.


Mural on the wall of Rotunda - one depicting the Declaration of Independence which has Thomas Jeffersen presenting a draft of the Declaration to John Hancock, and the second showing The Constitution of the US showing James Madison offereing the final draft of the Constituion to George Washington.

The Charters of Freedom

Ending the day was a Chinese dinner at Chinatown.


She had a craving for Chicken Rice the day before and so ordered Chicken Rice with Char Siew. The portion was super huge, but super not nice as it was really salty.


After dinner, there were more sight seeing - all because 2 days were not enough to travel around.

George Mason Statue
Washington Memorial - Night View

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Franklin Roosevelt Memorial

6 people squeezed into one small motel room

Washington Monument - Day View

The monument has 2 colours because it was built one third way, then stopped, and later completed years after.

Views from above the monument

Armed forces seals from the WWII Memorial


WWII Memorial


Korean War Memorial

Lincoln War Memorial

The Awakening - An interesting sculpture that has the giant in the mud (The horny devil's favourite)


Arlington Cemetry - The place where all the soldiers who died in the war were burried

Iwo Jima War Memorial

They were very lucky to have come on the day of the 'Sunset Parade' where the Marine Corp soldiers performed and did a colours ceremony.

It was a sight to behold.








And finally, to end our DC trip 1, we visited the Union Station.


And signing this post off with my most favourite part of my trip.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Little Secrets

My Victoria Secrets spree stuffs are here!!!! I'm so excited! Now I'm 'gian' for other shopping sprees! American Eagle Outfitters anyone?


Thursday, June 28, 2007

AE Spree

Thinking of ordering some stuffs from American Eagle Outfitters (AE), so will be conducting a spree for that. Anyone interested in getting things from there can leave me a comment with your email address and I'll get back to you soonest.

Meanwhile, pictures from Washington DC coming up!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Vomit Blood Day

Today is Vomit Blood Day. This is because we went to a shopping mall called Short Pump Town Centre, which has really a lot of big brand names like Bath and Body Works, Victoria Secrets, The Body Shop (the 1st I've encountered in US), Hollister, Abercrombie, Abercrombie and Fitch, Guess, Bebe, American Eagles and many more! It has thus caused a big hole in my pocket. Anyway, today is National Flip Flop Day (I'm not joking this time round). Hence, Tropical Smoothie Cafe gave away free smoothies to the 1st 500 customers wearing flip flops into their shops! As usual, how can Freddie and I miss out on such free deals? So we headed to the cafe early in the morning after our run...

Happy National Flip Flop Day!

All ready for the free smoothies!


Yummy!


Short Pump

Rushing to catch our bus with our treat of the day - Cold Stone ice cream!!

All my stashes

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Virginia Beach

Updates from my Goddess!~

Today is my off day again! Hooray!

A few of us went for the Company trip to Virginia Beach.

On the bus all ready to go!

Welcome to Virginia Beach!

The place is really beautiful and clean. The sand is fine and the water big (but cold). The waves are really huge too!



No spewing of vulgarities

X-(wo)man

Bikini Babe!

We then had a picnic at the beach (as usual).


More group pictures

No paparrazi please
Dinner was at this seafood buffet. It supposed to be a must-do thing at VB. Though expensive, the food was not bad, though the service was. The crab was huge and there were fresh prawns, clams, oysters, mussels and lots more!

And at the end of the day, both of us were really burnt.

Red saussage

Not to forget, we both bought ourselves a souvenir from VB - something really suitable for us - lifeguard attire!