Category: unique [奇趣特別篇]

Springlicious 2014

I had been to summerlicious and winterlicious numbers of times but I had never heard or been to a springlicious before so this was a very good experience.  The festival was operated by Celebrate Old Downtown Community Corp a not-for-profit organization dedicated to spotlighting the downtown; their shops, restaurants, theatre, professional services, new park and ongoing progress taking place in the Q District.  Umm, not sure about this one, I felt like a lot of things were missing, music was alright, everything on the street were kind of boring, people were super friendly but you just know that they are all from the country side of the city.  If springlicious comes again next year and I have nothing to do, I might go, but like I said, it was a good experience 😛

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Outlet Collection at Niagara Falls

The much anticipated Outlet Collection at Niagara is opened finally, if you are going from Toronto side, you exit right after you pass the skybridge, the mall would be on your right hand side, along the QEW at Glendale Avenue exit, you can’t miss it.  I am not sure whether if it is bigger than the one in Vaughn Mills or others but it is huge 🙂  I would assume after this one is opened, people would probably forget about the old one on Lundy’s lane Niagara Falls 😛  Tons of brand names stores (all outside), not to mention when I went there, it was only phase 1, there will be a phase 2 opening soon including Bass Pro Shops’ 77,000 square foot store (opening in November) as well as Polo Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, Diesel Surplus and Cole Haan.  Well, if you love shopping, it is worth the drive for a visit 🙂

P.S.  Don’t forget to try out their food court as well, BIGSMOKEBURGER is there 😉

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CAYO COCO – CUBA

CAYO COCO CUBA, what a great place to relax and to enjoy the sun while Ontario was still in the cold weather 😛  Compare to VARADERO where I had my very first vacation, this place is way more prettier and calm, probably because no one lives on the island, so people have to travel hours from the other side just to get to work.  Same rating 4.5 stars as the resort Melia that I stayed in the last time, Memories Flamenco Beach Resort is apparently remarkable.

Weather was nice and temperature was around 30°C the whole time in all my 7 days, with only minutes away from a beautiful beach and pools, I stayed in the sun most of the time and came back with a really nice tan.  Sadly my allergy got me rashes on my neck and legs but it was manageable, not sure if it was something I ate or was the sun…  One big thing I notice while I was there, not a single mosquito in the whole area, could it be because it’s an island?  What I enjoyed the most was the amazing beaches, white sands and everything you wanted, made you feel like you were in heaven, especially the beach PLAYA PILLAR, located at the east end of the island which takes about an hour of a bus ride. Also another best thing I saw was, for some reasons, there were billions of baby jelly fish in the sea water which even the people that worked there had never seen and they didn’t sting, amazing 🙂

With the amount of money that I paid, just a little under $900 with air fare and all inclusive resort (non stop alcohol drinking, hehe), this is by far the best valued vacation I ever had, if you are looking for inexpensive, this is really a place to think about, but just keep it in mind that this is CUBA, food won’t be as good 😛

there are tons more picture on my facebook, here is a link https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152306065145211.1073741837.689775210&type=1&l=f69368f3ea

and all panoramic view here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152305971405211.1073741836.689775210&type=1&l=21725d7c5a

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Christmas Eve 2013

Couldn’t really think of a better way of spending a Christmas Eve with the little monsters other than anywhere else 😛  We didn’t have a turkey dinner or anything, all we had was a sushi platter and some Vietnamese PHO.  And as usual, we had all the food ready on the table and we had to wait for Grace, Simon and Emily…  Anyhow, the kids wanted to play Xmas dress up, so they setup a graphics wall to take some cute pictures, Marcus was in a Santa suit and the 2 girls were dressed in red.  Even Valerie wasn’t feeling well but it didn’t seem to stop her from enjoying the night with Emily and Marcus as you can tell from the pictures below hehe.  Well, the Christmas Eve turned out to be a boxing day for the kids because after our fantastic meal, they just rushed to their presents piles and started opening all the gifts, LOL  It was really a fun night, thanks 福仔 肥媽 for the wonderful evening and Karen for the tasty cake at the end!

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Royal Princess (East Caribbean Cruise)

Second time going on a cruise and this time, I went with Princess Cruises. Royal princess is the name of the ship a~d it was only 1 year old. First land stop was called Princess Cays, which I believe is a Princess owned island, looks pretty I say, perfect to just relax and do nothing LOL, second land stop was St. Thomas, lots of pretty landmarks and third land stop was St. Marten, very pretty beaches and huge shopping area. The rest of the days were just staying on board and getting sun burnt LOL. Over all experience was alright, food was fantastic, but not so happy about the service plus got stuck in the elevator twice and no one helped… shows were not the greatest considered they should be the main features of the ship… but after this trip, I know I won’t be going with process again unless I get to at least age 60s because there isn’t a lot of activities going on for younger generations compare to Royal and basically all we did was drinking and shopping…

Anyways, in case you are wondering how my packing was for this trip, it was very easy because I just followed my packing list from last year’s Caribbean Cruise Experience, so it was a piece of cake 😛

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