Day 20 - Saturday 15th December 2012

Another night and I yet agin couldn't sleep and so I ended up staying up all night. We headed out on a car trip to San Fransico at around 3.00 am. The car trip took at least 7 hours not including the stops made on the way. By the time we arrived to the Inn it was about 10.30 am. We checked into our room and dropped off all our luggage and headed out to Chinatown, San Fransico. The day was looking dull, cold and slightly raining. When we got to Chinatown, it was a crazy mission to find parking. After finally finding parking we headed out to the streets of Chinatown. It was a different experience, just the environment and the structure of the streets were different. We walked around the streets of chinatown just trying to absorb the different atmosphere. As we were walking we saw several groups of people who were dressed up as Santa Clause, Mrs Clause, Elfs, etc. Apparently there was a celebration where there would be a massive groups of people dressed up would meet up. They were over taking the streets as well as the bars/pubs. We eventually found a decent place we could go eat Yum Cha but here in the US they call it Dim Sum. Same thing, I guess but I dont get why they call it that. Anyways after we finished eating, we ended up walking into several souvenir shops and I managed to purchase over $100 worth of souvenirs and managed to single handily get validation for our parking ticket.  We then headed to our car, and drove around looking at the different buildings and sights. As we drove around I couldn't help but notice that all the pubs and bars were packed with the groups of people who were dressed up. They were packed inside and outside of these pubs and bars. It was an unusual sight, something I have not yet seen before. We continued to drive around San Fransico, however because the traffic was so terrible. We couldn't make it into Union Square, where they were holding a big celebration. Because of the bad traffic, we decided to head back to our room and end the long day we had. When we finally arrived at our room, we all took a rest and watched the movie, New Years Eve, that was playing on the television. And as my relatives slept me and my sister stayed up watching movies on our laptop however we did fall asleep eventually.

New places and experiences can never compare to back home

xoxo bmnt