March break, Seasy went to china with school, George's went to St.martin, I took the time to do daughter duty: decided to go on a trip with parents to eastern US.
March 6th, we flew to Ottawa then, New York , stayed in 4 star hotel Sheraton at canal street, very close to Chinatown . This is the first trip I got time to understand Chinatown, now I know this place inside out .
Thursday we explore china town , found nice place to eat. Friday , 7th, I got appointment with doctor at mount Sanil hospital. Doctor proceed an electric telescope check up for me, I am very surprise to of know what canard what to do on me is called " old school " , I do not have to be put sleep , here what US has is a tiny tube, like fish line, went in easily, I can saw from screen next to me . Then, another even smaller one went to kidney , whole procedure last for less than 30min. Fast and painless, the anti biotic shot is the most painful thing of all.
Doctor said I am perfect fine and can go shopping !
It is so nice to know I am all good again, can not wait , I am back to the shopping pleasure . Rest of the time past so fast and easy, I can not even remember what I did. Friday night, found a nice Restrauant called "joes shanghai " , very busy. Very nice food .
Saturday , went on NY one day tour, price tagged at $10.00. But end up. I paid $500 for 3 . Smart Chinese way of sales, next time, have to ask full package before step in.
Tour was not bad, a smAll van with about 12 people , started with 911, library status, Wall Street , empire building , time square . I wearing my boots, got pain on foot, weather was. Very nice, 15 degrees sunny we are very happy to tour under this weather, again. New York gave me nice weather , this is may be 20th time I came to NY, all good weather,
Sunday, rest at hotel, deal with business in the morning. I used up all my cash. Tied 5 bank last night , can not get money out. Went to 3 bank again . TD has dry bad attitude and citi bank has nicest service . Finally got money out for Monday trip payment . I waited till last minutes to book Monday Washington trip, end up, no seats on line, I was lucky that one tour company still has seats. But, everything in chia town is cash, I was so stupid that did not bring enough . Anyway, rush To tourist agent with cash I got, are aged trip. 3 people, one hotel room, only $50 per person , on bus, paid another $50 pp for tickets, meal.
Afternoon, went with mum to soho .
Sunday night, my high school classmate GAO Jin showed up in my hotel, we did not see each other for 28years. Man, it is scary to know I am that old . She has 2 kids and a nice job. Worked in medicine company , in charge of IT, her hub is doing same job. Both paid over 100K, with stock from the company, very nice life . They moved to Singapore on 1991, few years later came to NY, bought house at New Jersey . A sAmple of American dream . Not sure who's life is better, I am more successful on Career. She is better in family life I guess. But still my life is not that bad . More excited and colourful than most people.
Monday morning , went on bus tour . Left at 8:00, went to Phili to see the bell , then , went to Baltimore to see ford, understood where US flag come from , afternoon arrived Washington , took cruise tour, memorial park, walked with parents to see George Washington hall . I am not good at remember names, still no idea what I was visited,
What I like is Philli's nice stone small streets quiet. Not a lot of people. Washington has huge park and lake at Center, this 200 years old city was designed by French who copied paris , lake in Center surrounded by cherry blossom. Another 2 weeks, cherry blossom will starts, it must be very pretty. In cruise tour. Like the tour in Sain river of paris, we saw A lots of famous place that I saw only in movie .
Feel the oldness of parents, I keep on remind myself this is one of the very last tour I can do in my life with them, maybe it is the very last, mum is getting the cataract and hearing aid, dad keeps pee every 10min. They are definitely reaching the end of their life,
Monday night, hotel room sold out. We have only one room. Shared with parents. Really hard for me , dad offered to sleep on floor, I took he offer. But saw him sleep in the bus next day , felt guilty .
Tuesday. Got wake up at 7:00 am, bus left to White House .
Trip today is kind of disappointed, first went to Guo hui San where all the VIP meet to make rules , pretty nice building. Like Center church in paris . We can. to go in, took picture from far. I wS thinking at least we go inside White House, but, after we arrived, all we got is to see the White House from far, not even at front door, guilder said all tourist only allow to see from back door. Man , my last trip saw better, we are not allow to tour around on our own either . Again, few picture shot, done .
Went to Aerospace Center after, do not even know the name . Pretty interesting to see the stone from moon .
The , we were brought to a buffet place again for lunch, quite expensive . Afterwards Back to New York .
11th night, Changed hotel to middle town, choose one very close to pen station, Madison square , affinia hotel , next door to Koran town also, very cool location, can work to anywhere. Biggest Macy is there also, 5 min. Working . We went out in the night, eat nice Korean food , then walk to time square to see true night feeling of time a Square. Spent 2 hours at time square, all the lights and noise, believe, my parents have deep memory now . End up we walked too long, took taxi back to hotel , cheaper than metro as it is so close.
Wednesday , March 12th, made a shopping plan today , wake up , ate breakfast at "paris baguette " for breakfast , loved it and it is just located at Ktown which is 5 min from hotel. Went to sake on 5th, Bloomingdale and realized I can not buy normal stuff like before I need certain level to please myself, was going to shop a lot at bloomingdale, but reach time to pick up dad from hotel , 2:00 pm eat at Ktown again , last Korean food . Walk to biggest Macy's to finish the whole shopping day, Macy's is best favourite store now, compare to the other 2 higher end stores. This biggest Macy comes with much more items and better price, we went in at 2.00pm and finish at 7:00pm. Did not buy anything else but the item I wanted before, a nice red purchase from Laurent , and 2 nice dress which cashier gave me 20% off. It costs me a lot, but I enjoy it , if I had more energy, I could spend whole day here, next time, I will just come here to shop. Started to rain, I took a black taxi to new hotel . Durante street hotel, close to china town, last day , 13th, my mission is to get hair done and nail done, plus food massage to recover from all the walking .
Hotel was extremely small. But, clean, I went up 8:30 am, do some business. Then, heading china town for dim sim . Finally went to the best dim sim place in town . No one there at all . Then 11:30, started hair experience, ceramic perm my hair, steamed with oil .my whole person changed, more stylish . It took me till 3:00 pm to finish the whole thing. Then, foot massage and nail took me anther 1 hour, eat lat time at Joe's shanghai for " Xiao long bao " , rush to soho , walked in the wind m strong wind today . as no taxi can be found . Finally find a taxi , rush to airport.
1.5 hours delay at airport , onboard, more delay . Will Arrive only at 2:00-3:00 AM .
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