標籤彙整: 美國旅遊

29-6-2006：神奇點

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DAY 10 @ USA

umum… Still not feeling well today.

I woke up naturally around 8am in the morning. I sat in front of the computer but unable to talk to Day and Ga Jie logically. It was a MESS! Day told me to go to sleep again. When I woke up again, it was already 12noon!!! Feeling much better when I finally got up.

Super hungry, I looked for food in the fridge. Except the vegetable buns I ate yesterday, I couldn’t locate anything for breakfast. Reheating it by steaming, wait for 10 minutes, oh no, too little water in the pot!!! I’m really sorry, Hong.

Luckily the kitchen was not burnt.

Hong came back a bit earlier than I expected (the smell was still here), we left home around 2pm. Today our destination was the Mystery Spot at Santa Cruz (see, a lot of names in California are in Spanish, a place very close to us is called Los Gatos<–which means the cats!!!).

On the way to Santa Cruz.

We missed the exit to Santa Cruz!!! But really need to T-H-A-N-K G-O-D! After we exited the freeway, looking for the way to the Mystery Spot, being confused on the street, the visitor information centre was just IN FRONT OF US!!! How can it be so amazing?! We finally got to the Mystery Spot with just 45 minutes.

The Mystery Spot is a place where it is said to have an unusual magnetic field so that anything would be pulled towards the field. I doubt about this theory but it is quite interesting.

When I stand straightly, my body leans forward without falling. Try this posture on a level ground. It is impossible to do this.

We had to join the 30-minute guided tour to visit the Mystery Spot. The guide showed us a lot of experiments. We had a chance to take part in those experiments.

Of course we need to take a picture in front of the entrance~

We then drive back home. Before going home, we went to a Chinese supermarket to buy something.

We saw a wild deer on the way we drove back home!!! How can you imagine you see a deer when you are driving??

The Chinese supermarket is very large and there are even more different kinds of food selling there. They sell various kinds of fresh vegetables and frozen, canned, dried Chinese food of brands of Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

Reaching home!!! A picture taken in front of the big entrance of Hong’s apartment.

I had to sleep again. Another 2 hours. I woke up only when dinner was ready.

Benson (Hong’s boyfriend) came here this evening. He cooked ALL the dishes (Hong, of course, helped a bit with the preparation work~) we had tonight!!! It was SUPER DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Onion beef ribs, steamed eggs, fried vegetables with garlic and rice seasoned by garlic!!! Wow~

27-6-2006：橫跨美洲大陸探探老朋友

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DAY 8 @ USA

終於o黎到康皓珊屋企啦~好開心啊﹗

原本今日大家睇我個diary要睇英文o架啦，因為康皓珊部電腦打唔到中文，不過好在康露明(康皓珊姐姐，都係陳瑞芝o架~好耐冇見佢lu~)今晚o黎o左﹗佢帶埋部電腦o黎，所以今晚仲可以打中文diary﹗聽日就…要委屈一下咯~

今日坐飛機真係10個累﹗今朝又唔舒服呢~一朝早起來覺得個頭好痛﹗哇，個頭、個身仲好「興」添﹗六姨俾支探熱針我，101.7度﹗

發燒啦~都唔知因乜事忽然間發燒﹗而家都有一兩個differential diagnosis啦~開頭覺得係感冒，因為systemic upset:頭痛、發燒、周身累、痛(其實都幾non-specific，因為六姨屋企o個張床訓到成個人凹入去，醒都會周身痛﹗)、又冇respiratory symptoms喎，我打o左流感針之後幾個月都冇試過感冒，唔通美國o既strain同香港唔同，cover唔到乎？我朝早食o左兩粒panadol之後一兩個鐘就退o左燒啦，覺得好o左好多，晏少少(藥力過o左？)又好似有D燒，但到夜晚竟然精神爽利﹗我而家覺得發燒應該係因為牙痛﹗智慧齒逼出o黎，有D inflammation，以致有systemic inflammatory response~所以快來快去？﹗我都唔知呀，感冒冇理由好得咁快…算啦，總之之後幾日唔好咁操勞啦~

架飛機真係離晒譜，原本十點半起飛，點知delay o左，十一點半都未上機，終於上o左機喇，又搞o左有成半個鐘先起飛﹗遲o左好多啦~係飛機上面都唔係好訓得著，訓得少少o羅~有飲品serve我都只係要o左熱茶咋(如果飲咖啡o既話係starbucks出品o架~)~醒目ta﹗

我知道飛機上面冇食物serve之後買定份三文治上機食，我又買o左subway o既submarine啦﹗今日係turkey breast，用honey oat麵包﹗雖然冇toasted，但都好好味啊~

去到中途站denver(我都唔知究竟係咩地方﹗)，我都唔知架飛機已經遲o左幾多，出去閘外面閒逛o左一陣，原本想買張denver o既postcard，因為難得有機會o黎到丫嘛~但都冇﹗對面有間咖啡點，哇，杯icebrewed marble mocha好吸引啊﹗

又靚~忍唔住買o左o黎飲﹗上面除o左有cream之外，仲有朱古力同白朱古力碎片係上面~好好味啊~

第二程仲辛苦，又訓唔著，本da vinci code又睇完，冇「世藝」﹗擔天望地…哎吔吔~阿婆ta又出現了，腰好痛呀~

因為坐得太耐了﹗後來拎本飛機上面o既購物目錄o黎睇，有好多新產品，都幾得意，咁都消磨o左好多時間~

終於抵達oakland啦﹗見到康皓珊10開心﹗好耐冇見了，我o地一見面就吱喳不停﹗因為都累啦，所以都冇去到邊，直接番o左佢apartment，竟然兩個人住o既apartment都有兩層，每個人都有自己o既廁所，好舒服呀~

今晚我同康孖舖﹗食晚飯前稍作休息，矇矇矓矓間睡去後，忽然聽到有把聲同我講，你好似唔知我係邊個喎？康露明來了﹗

我o地對住個電視食康皓珊準備o既晚餐(菇菇蛋肉片麵、菜<–好味道﹗)，送飯o既有錄影帶，係benson(康o既男朋友)以前錄起o既「師奶強人」(睇o既時候忽然覺得COSH o既吱喳dennis好似阮兆祥﹗哈﹗)，10個舊﹗睇完之後睇番美國o既本地電視台，有america’s next top model呀(原來已經是重播了)﹗有重播世界盃，巴西對加納(聽英文旁述好搞笑，kaka、cafu、kaka，佢o地傳o黎傳去，好似漏口咁…)，又有國語劇集，陳浩民有份做~

之後上樓hea下hea下咁o羅~睇下康皓珊(應該係我o地中學時)D舊相，大家個樣都大個o左好多呢(尤其係阿day﹗好大分別呢~)~又睇下康D sketch book(佢o既招牌熊貓經常出現﹗)~之後同康露明係度勁睇youtube D短片，勁搞笑﹗

其實我都應該早D訓啦，不過好在聽日中午左右先出動，可以訓晏D~yeah~

26-6-2006：登上航空母艦

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DAY 7 @ USA

聽日就出發去康皓珊度啦﹗好期待啊﹗陣間都仲要執行李添…聽朝又要早起~

今日10個累﹗因為行o左好多好多好多好多路~而且都運o左好多好多好多好多吉﹗(<–今次唔關我事o架~個間公司有新人加入了﹗)

一 早起身，上晝都冇乜做到D乜，六姨車o左我去辦個social security card，話第時要係美國搵工定申請銀行戶口都要用呢個social security number喎~去到D手續都好快搞掂，其實都只不過係填份form，然後個職員將D資料入落電腦罷了﹗好簡單，一陣就走得啦~

之後六姨車我去staten island ferry個碼頭(其實應該係st george ferry pier，呀，以前係toronto番summer school時個地鐵站都叫做st george﹗)，我去到downtown會合六姨丈，佢今日會帶我去玩﹗我架船雖然慢，但去到o個邊都等o左佢差唔多半個鐘，好在今日有帶到本da vinci code去睇﹗哇，越來越精彩呀﹗好想追住o黎睇﹗

原本諗住去bronx zoo o架(bronx係new york北邊o既一個區，o個度有個都幾大型o既動物園﹗)，但又落住雨喎，天氣唔好D動物都唔走出o黎啦﹗於是六姨丈提議去睇航空母艦(好威水啊﹗)﹗ 坐subway去到42街，向西邊行，我o地中途停低食o左lunch，終於去o左subway了﹗subway係一間連鎖店，專賣submarine (長形的sandwich~)，我要o左燒牛肉，其他配料任揀o架~我要o左好多蔬菜的﹗好好味啊﹗

係香港開都有得做﹗o岩D OL做lunch﹗食飽飽之後，我o地一直向西行就見到隻艦啦﹗真係好大，隻艦由第二次世界大戰開始服役，到1974年退下火線，而家變o左museum。我o地買o左套票，包入場同兩個rides﹗

一 入到去就有個guided tour要開始啦，我o地個領隊係一個老伯﹗佢講o野好細聲呢~但留心聽o既話都可以得到好多資訊﹗佢帶我o地好brief咁行o左一轉，解釋番隻船o既 結構、改進、內部運作等等俾我o地聽，同tour仲有一個男人帶住兩個小朋友，同埋兩個女人，佢o地全部都係英文人呀，聽得明晒(我估咋…)，我又有時要 估估下，D專有名詞又唔識(例如「魚雷」o既英文…oops﹗而家又唔記得了﹗)~去到隻船o既flight deck，有好多隻戰機放係度展覽，有一隻「隱形戰機」，原來隱形o既意思係指佢飛得好高，而且機身油o左一種特別o既油，radar偵測唔到，所以就隱 形啦~(我問六姨丈點解唔所有戰機都油o個種油，哈﹗我係笨蛋﹗

因為，如果隻機飛得唔高，機身油乜都冇用啦，用眼都睇到咯﹗radar偵唔偵測到都冇關係﹗)

之後去玩o個兩個ride，一個叫4D，一個叫G-force。4Do個個就小兒科D，係一個張椅會郁o既3D電影，再加D觸感o既effect(噴水o個D~)，都幾得意o既，不過做得唔夠仔細o羅~G-force就犀利咯，我o地兩個坐係個cabin入面，要駕駛戰機，攻擊敵人，但個cabin o既郁動就跟住我o地入面o既駕駛，所以可能係三百六十度轉，或者半天吊的﹗但我o地兩個都駕駛得麻麻地啦~目標又擊唔中﹗

之後我o地睇埋一個關於隻航空母艦o既video同埋逛埋旁邊隻潛水艇(今次真係童叟無欺o既submarine﹗)就走lu~

運吉正式開始啦﹗

因為六姨丈今朝拎o左架車去整，我o 地行完個museum咪去拎番架車o羅，但間車房係brooklyn(新唐人街，都頗遠的~)，去o個邊都需要D時間﹗於是我o地行番好遠o既距離(比中 環站去香港站遠得多﹗)搭番地鐵，去到brooklyn，趕頭趕命，要係間舖六點鐘關門之前去到﹗點知，去到間車房就發覺已經關門啦，只遲o左一個字(咁 都唔等﹗)﹗去到咁遠，唔甘心﹗

所以打電話番黎問六姨有冇餸要買，買o左磅(冇錯﹗係磅，而唔係斤﹗呢度D叉燒比香港貴，但又冇咁好食…)叉燒啦~

因為冇車直接番去staten island，所以要坐番地鐵出去downtown，再坐ferry，然後17個站o既火車，番到去時已經八點幾lu~(慘﹗)雖然如此，但車費都只係US$2﹗因為地鐵US$2，ferry免費，兩個鐘之內轉車(都包括火車)又唔駛錢~咁都不幸中之大幸o既…

我都好累啦，頭先食完飯坐係張梳化度睇御用閒人，坐低o左都唔想郁﹗執行李﹗訓覺﹗

25-6-2006：參與崇拜．參觀世貿遺址

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DAY 6 @ USA

因 為上晝跟o左六姨番教會，所以下晝先自己出動﹗佢o地個教會係staten island的華人教會，都冇分話係邊個支派，但禮儀上我覺得比較似以前係陳瑞芝咁o羅~因為day教會係信義會，但成個崇拜o既程序都同我o地天主教一 樣家嘛(連感恩祭入面D獻禮經o既內容都大同小異﹗)，特別有親切感~

今日原來係中英文堂聯合崇拜，所以十點半開始(平時中文堂應該係十一點幾~)，但六姨同佢個friend barbara(尋日出現過o個個)都唔知喎，所以我o地遲大到﹗oops﹗

去到已經講緊道啦~因為中英文合堂，所以個崇拜trilingual(廣東話、普通話、英文)，需要o既時間變成三倍呢~

禮 儀完o左之後六姨碰見佢D friend都介紹我俾佢o地識，其中有位女士同個女一齊，個女今年大學升year2喎，六姨話我係hku medic升year4嘛(而事實都係啦，哈哈~)，個女仔好驚訝咁﹗我o地互通姓名之後，佢好唐突咁問我一個問題，你幾多歲？其實冇乜講過幾多句就問都 有少少奇怪，咁我都答o左22啦，跟住佢話：「you look so young!」(<–因為係竹昇，所以講英文﹗)咁我當然心裏hee hee啦﹗

我look so young，好高興啊﹗佢o地今日又係education service，即係特別為high school o既畢業生o既一日，講道都圍繞住佢o地﹗見到好多後生仔，跟住我就發覺，哇，原來阿sam真係好美國﹗

D衣著(例如大熱天時著件polo tee，但入面都要加多一件圓領tee，擺明係為o左靚啦~)、髮型、步態、表情都同佢o地一模一樣﹗

佢o地教會遲D會有隊伍去短宣，要籌募經費，咁就賣珍珠奶茶o黎籌款，US$4一杯﹗我飲o左我人生中o既第二杯珍珠奶茶啦~第一杯係仙跡岩飲，因為飲過唔鍾意，之後就冇再叫過lu，咁今日o黎到咁飲o羅，但竟然幾好味喎~

D珍珠甜甜的﹗又唔係太難咬~改觀了﹗(抑或佢o地整得好飲？)

lunch番去六姨屋企食，之後就出去lu~今日都係坐staten island ferry出去manhattan downtown，但係六姨屋企去碼頭就唔係搭巴士，而係搭火車，咁諗住實好D啦，點知原來火車有17個站，真係oh no~

我o個一刻極度後悔冇帶部mp3機o黎﹗其實都唔係唔方面o既，但時間確實係耐o羅~站又多，所以坐得都幾煩悶(去時好D，因為睇住旅遊書，但番o黎o個程就慘啦~)~

去到downtown都四點幾，都唔去得遠，目的地係世貿遺址，途中都經過o左D地方o既，有trinity church、華爾街(wall street)、stock exchange market…

stock exchange market，好似話平日有得入去參觀o架，我都想去睇下，但星期日就冇啦，睇下之後仲有冇機會去啦~

因為係星期日嘛，所以附近都冷冷清清咁，都係遊客多，仲有D賣紀念品(有o個D成舊水晶膠入面有個自由神像o個D擺設，超平，令我諗起當年o既上海明珠塔 ﹗越行得遠，價錢越平，但個個買到番o黎都會發覺舊o野有D問題，唔係有粒污糟o野，就係個搭歪o左﹗超搞笑﹗)T-shirt o既小攤子~

之後再行o左去世貿遺址~而 家有D高鐵欄圍住個遺址o羅，入面已經變成o左地盤啦，因為第時要起番個紀念公園之類。外面就掛o左一幅幅o既展覽，講番wtc o既歷史(70年代就起好o架啦﹗)，911 o既經過，死難者o既名(佢o個度寫：heros of 911…其實我又諗，係咪死o左o既就係heros呢？可能o個D人生前都唔係特別愛國個咋喎，只係咁唔好彩係呢件事度死o左，或者佢都未必願意為國家而 犧牲？﹗)，將來呢個地點o既plan之類…

行完呢度去o左隔離o既century 21 department store度行，呢度以賣特價o既優質貨品而著名，我都有少少收穫﹗但入面好似個戰場一樣，大家都熱烈地購物﹗

唔…係六姨屋企好似冇係七姨o個度咁free咁添，可能七姨o個邊人少D簡單D啦，咁不嬲又同七姨見得多，傾都傾得埋D啩…

激死我啦，D相整極都整唔到，冇辦法了﹗可能要去到康皓珊度我先再有機會放相係個diary度﹗

24-6-2006：第一次係美國睇世界盃

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DAY 5 @ USA

今日冇得睇相啦~因為一張都冇影過~

一朝早起o左身七姨都係度，因為今日星期六，美國普遍星期六都唔駛番工﹗佢可以悠閒地同我一齊歎下早餐，見到佢已經開o左msn同七姨丈傾下計lu~又食o左蝦米腸、熱奶茶(三朝有係七姨屋企食o既早餐都係腸粉﹗七姨係公司附近買番o黎，我o地朝早叮番o黎食都仲好好味﹗)﹗不斷地吱喳，到成差唔多九點半先上番樓執行李﹗(今晚開始係六姨屋企訓嘛~)我都費事執得靚靚，因為都唔係太多o野，總之塞晒入個喼度就算啦~快快脆脆﹗上o左一陣網，六姨丈就過o左o黎lu~

哇，去到六姨屋企，同佢吱喳o左一陣，就睇世界盃﹗餓o左好多日世界盃啦(係七姨屋企淨係會睇中文台之嘛，呢埋播緊同撈同煲、西廂奇緣同埋御用閒人﹗仲有無線新聞添o架~慢o左一日﹗但都覺得好好睇~佢o地o個度其他中國人仲會租帶睇，D劇仲新過香港﹗)，不知不覺冇睇咁多日，原來已經去到淘汰賽﹗賽事變得越來越精彩﹗我坐埋個電視度已經下半場lu~但上半場o既比數二比零一直到下半場都冇再拉開過呢~德國隊晉身八強啦~yeah~(奇連士文年紀大o左仲有型﹗靜靜坐係度時又似個秀氣o既男人，但又好有熱誠幹勁﹗完場後有播記招呀，原來佢D英文講得好好聽o架喎~)

原本話六姨丈同我出去食少少o野就去new jersey o既science centre，佢網上check過，雖而家science centre做緊維修，但應該都有一半展覽會開放，但去到…oops﹗成個都關門﹗

今日又落大雨喎，咁唯有決定去食完o野番o黎再睇埋第二場世界盃o羅~

六姨丈帶我去一間steak house，D style有D似outback o個種，半酒吧半餐廳，食D bar food，我o地去到時已經兩點半啦，今晚又plan o左去食自助餐，咁我o地兩個人淨係叫o左兩個appetizer，係炸蝦同bbq雞翼(大大份，加味道濃厚，感覺真的好美國人﹗)，有個麵包係送o既 (塗上D打成cream狀o既牛油都幾好味)，六姨丈又叫o左個洋葱湯俾我，哇，個洋葱湯上面鋪上一層之芝士，10個飽，飲完都食唔到幾多o野啦，結果o個兩個appetizer我都只係食o左四份一，另外o個四份三都係六姨丈食的﹗

番去咪睇阿根廷對墨西哥o羅，阿根廷雖然之前話都有D冠軍相，但今日表現真係麻麻地，焦頭爛額仲要加時先入到八強，法定時間下半場都潰不成軍，係加時之前教練醒兩句個隊形先番番o黎﹗恐怕之後對德國都唔易打~

哇，一睇完波就超眼訓﹗(時差o既眼訓時段又到啦，日日都係五六點就好累了~)上去訓o左一覺﹗好鍾意六姨俾我訓o個間房有個天窗﹗我最鍾意就係D房有好多窗，透風、光猛﹗聽朝可能就係天色(恐怕冇陽光了﹗)會叫醒我啦~

夜晚去o左new jersey(new jersey同new york state真係隔離，由staten island去new jersey仲快過去manhattan o個邊﹗)一間餐廳食自助餐，六姨個friend barbara同eddie都有一齊去，呢間自助餐上次六姨六姨丈都有帶過爸媽去o架，超多海鮮、刺身、壽司﹗而且一D都唔吝嗇，壽司有好多款不特只，連 三文魚子都有呀(係香港suppose係貴o野o黎家嘛~)~但壽司又唔可以食太多喎，好容易食飽o左又食唔落第D o野﹗呢個自助餐同香港普遍o既自助餐唔同o既地方係，佢著重D新鮮o既材料、海鮮o羅，而香港o個D多數都係靠精緻o既手工同廚藝，好多時都有好多靚靚 沙律同靚靚甜品，但呢度呢，呢兩方面都唔係好注重~但整體o黎講都好味o既~

今晚冇o架~沖完o左個涼，陣間check埋個e-mail就訓o架啦~聽朝會跟埋六姨番教會，係基督教o既中文教會~唔知會點呢？下晝都係跟住佢o地lu~所以我都未知道行程~