Tuesday, November 20, 2007

San Antonio~



Wootz!! Back from San Antonio Roadtrip~. It's fun but could have been better if we did our homework!

Our Initial plans was to hit the roads on Friday night, but decided to change to Sat morning 530am so that we can save on the hotel cost. Hence, we went to a piano bar name "howl on the moon" to chill out. It's FANTASTIC! Love it! i thought it's some romantic bar where they play nice soothing music.. I was so wrg.. it's a pub with band, but the main instrument is Piano~. Imagine playing fast rock songs with piano, their fingers are fantastically fast. & its not only 1 band member that can play piano, all of the them, & they rotate ard. this segment u play piano, i play guitar, he sing, nxt, we all rotate.. POWERZ! simply love it! Y don singapore have such a place!?!?!?

Look at the back,any1 can pay more than $13 would be able to write on the 'phrase of the nite' section, like Dave is super Yandao etc. Lol. & the bet goes higher & higher, next phrase would be $14.

Also, there's a segment where all the crews & waiters would stand on stage & dance together, teaching the crowd to do some mass dance. It's like half time break. So fun.


Now for San Antonio......


Hitting the roads at 530am!Fun, & slpy. lol. 2.5hr's drive to San antonio... boring...

It's not like europe where theres nice scenery. In US, its all roads, construction etc.. nothin nice.. but we did see some animals like goats, horses in some farmland.. too far away to take gd pics though.

This pic of me looks distorted. wtf. I assure u i m still as handsome as ever,if not even more handsome. =)



Long roads...



Full of highways..

Downtown San Antonio!! Nice buildings,much better den houston.



Yeah, finally reached @ 830am!! Wootz! Jan, Dany, David, Me (Bassam not in pic). It's an all Guy's Roadtrip!!! Wootz!! Btw, Bassam is Dany's high school frd from lebanon,now studyin master's in New Jersey. Joined us for a wkend.



Nice buildings


Downtown San Antonio



The Churches are so nice, & every1 of them look the same. We only remembered our car was parked at this church, end up every other church looks similar. Had a hard time finding our car. lol.



The highlight of San Antonio would be the Riverwalk. Right in downtown, theres a river flowing around it, & along the sidewalk would be some restaurants & shops. Sooo nice~.. Soo Lomantic




The sidewalks are empty cos no1 walks there at 9am in the morning. lol. Hard to find a restaurant tat serves breakfast. There's 1 that sell omlettes for $12.95. wtf, thats an like eating GOLDEN eggs, 13usd for eggs.. no thanks. ended up with Mac Breakfast.lol.







It's as a little like Venice, but the main thing is, in Venice, pple ROW boats, slowly down the stream. In riverwalk, they use MOTORboats......Americans.. Nothin surprising.. lol.













Next destination, the Alamos~. It's the historic site where in the 1816s(forgot liao), the texans fought bravely against the mexicans, 200brave texans(americans are always heros,lol) vs few thousands of mexicans. They manage to hold the mexicans for a few days or week, but in the end, not a single 1 survived the battle.





The defense of Alamo~



The letter from General Travis


We went to some souvenir shops to look ard, end up taking their stuffs, took pics & ended up buying nothing. haha. Evil~


Look more like Mexicans then texans. lol.


Went to a very interesting restaurant for lunch, it's called Dick's. Yes.. it really meant to be DICK. every1 working there are 'Dicks'. The 1st thing they say to u is, " is this your 1st time here? If yes, don take things personal." Then they start to be dicks(jerks), they treat u like dicks. They came over to take ur orders, if u're slow, they'll say 'i don haf time for u dickies, wen u've decided den let me know, den he walked off" it happened for a few times until david decided enff is enff, we left the table, walked inside the bar to get another waiter. Meanwhile he told the guy, 'we just don like u, it's not personal." lol.




Another lady served us, same thing, "hurry up u dickies, don be a pussy" is wat she said. lol. They gave no plates, wen we asked for some, she came over, 'don be a whiny pussy,' den she drew a plate using a marker, on a piece of paper. Apparently the paper is our 'plate' Lol. Wen we asked for bill, she printed a receipt, wrote "pay up & fu*k off", crushed it & threw it at us. Hahah. there's a sign on the door " thank you for wasting money on us" lol.
So u pay to get treated like dicks, & u can scold or call them pussy, dicks etc all u like. lol. weird, but interesting.

We ended up walking ard downtown till 4pm, i realli mean walking AROUND.. keep going rd & rd, din noe where to go & wat else to do. no1 bother to do research. hahah. Felt bored, decided to drive down to Austin, abt 1-1.5hrs away.. Got a hotel to stay in, 5 guys all in 1 rm. It's not too bad, 2 queen double beds, 1 extra bed, just nice for 5 guys. Each oni 20bucks. Zhuan!





Even got nice pool, too bad din bring trunks to swim.

Took a short nap & headed down to Austin Downtown to PARTY!!! Their club scene is unbelievable..Crazy... alot of pretty gals, much more den houston..



Look at the streets, there crowded with party goers. It's supposed to be roads, but it's closed for partying at nite.. powerz..






Oh, saw these horse carriages along the road. So tempted to try, but im sure it's ex. Just like our trishaws in Bugis... chop tourists...





Party till 2am, head back to slp...not realli party, but just drinking..not much dancing involved.

They slpt till almost 12pm, i woke at 9am, explore ard hotel..Headed to San Marcus for shopping!! it's outrageously HUGE. I think about 4-5 national stadiums.. crazy..Its not a mall, but all invidual shops/outlets.








Had alot of brands like CK, Boss, Armani Exchange, Guess, Coach, watever u wan they have.. Alot fo them are factory outlets at cheaper prices, but quality is not there.. Was a little disapointed at Armani Exchange..was so lookin fwd to it.. Calvin klein shirts are not bad, 30usd can get liao, but i din buy. Even CK jeans were at 30usd, but i din buy too, don need jeans. & its heavy.. End up buying a few tshirts from AX & Banana republic.. tats all. Lol. But the rest of them realli spend like crazi.. kenneth cole shirts, CK jeans, aldo shoes, powerz..


time to head home after a longgggg wkend... 3hrs drive back to Houston.. shagz man.. But it was fun~! a gd roadtrip experience, but im sure could have been better!!



Now it's time to plan for NEw York.. Muz not go unplanned liao... Was so eager to watch broadway shows in NY until i saw news today, " broadway goes on strike".. wtf.. shows for this whole wk are cancelled.. sian diao.. Ultimate suay jiao... Haiz.. Nevertheless, i hope it'll be a good thanksgiving trip!! wootz!!

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