Wine Wine Wine

Napa Valley was a sight indeed. Had the opportunity to visit the amazing winery valley, although I am not a big wine person. But the beautiful scenery is definitely a good enough excuse to drop by, especially when I have such lovely hosts offering me a ride there! Big thank to Frankie and Felicia

Wines left to age for hundreds of years!

The view there is definitely breathtaking. Got a lot of pictures up for show.

This room was used to film "Bedtime Story" the moving starring Adam Sandler.

The Wine Cellar.

Kinda lazy to blog with words this time. =) Stay tune.

Never Ending. . . . . . . . .

I do not know why I have so many pictures yet to be posted on my San Francisco trip. It seems like I went crazy with picture taking within that 5 days. And I am too lazy to slowly crop them nicely and post it all at once, hence I am staggering the pictures. Come to think about it, it was a month ago when I was there. And here I am, still posting crazy loads of pics. Lolz.

Bear with me. The nicest of all picture is still not up.

If any of you have watched the movie "The Rock", or has a boyfriend like mine who absolutely loves the show and made you watch it 3 times with him, or have extremely good general knowledge about prisons, you would have heard about the famous "Alcatraz". (Trust me, I never heard of it until I watch the movie). It is a deadly island, a land that is not suitable for plantations, and suffers extreme weathers, and is surrounded by deadly waves crashing into the rocks. Hence, a perfect place for a prison. 

The view from Alcatraz island.

All I knew about this island was that is has a prison in which noone EVER in the history of mankind had escaped from it successfully. Many attempted and either died in the process, or disappeared. Well long time ago, this island used to be San Francisco's fort because of its strategic location. They held slaves and prisoners during war times, and realize that this island was perfect for a prison, and hence built one.

How do I know all these? Because they have an award winning audio tour to accompany you throughout you visit. Which was pretty good. It forces you to spend a good one and half hour walking around the story lanes of gruesome incidents in the prison, which decorated cells to show. 

Bars give me chills. Prison bars. 

More touring around the city after that. The cable car was pretty scary as I kept thinking the cars passing by will chop my hands off. I need those for a living. 

@ Union Square. My hotel was just next to this beautiful plaza.  

Another postcard shot of SF. The night view from above! (Not the last of pics yet lolz, more to come)

More of SF!

Isn't San Francisco at night amazingly beautiful? Although not a city with tall sky scrapers like New York, this city has enough lights in the city to bright up the west coast sky.

I was very fortunate to have a friend with a car to drive me around to take beautiful pictures and savour yummy food. Had a chance to eat at a Hong Kong cafe (virtually non-existent in Philadelphia). Good ol' asian delights warm my stomach. Can't wait for my trip back to Malaysia. 

My night in SF was usually interrupted by a little cute fluffy Tofu.

Looks exactly like a fluffy Tofu. I am so gonna get a Pomeranian when I start working. My goal!

Lady bug stuck on the car window. 

The next day (Day 2) we took the ferry into the city (because parking in the city will empty your wallet in 2 seconds). If you google SF's map, Felicia live outside of SF, and to get to SF you need to cross a river (hence the bridges). So we took the ferry instead. 

Pictures from the ferry.

We stopped by the Fisherman's Wharf, and stroll along the bay for a while. The boats the yatches oh man this is heaven! And there was even a seal section.

We ended up having yummy yummy crab chowder and crab, but it was expensive though. Haha.

One more picture of my host! Felicia!