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Grand Canyon Tour

We signed up for a full-day Grand Canyon tour during our weekend in Las Vegas! I was pretty excited to see my first wonder of the world! Carys picked out the tour (saving me the research effort, heh) and I was told it was…

11 September 2014
USA

Learning how to gamble in Las Vegas

By that, I meant learning *HOW* to gamble in Las Vegas. Not learning how to gamble IN Las Vegas. Which means… we sat down at the Blackjack table to gamble without even knowing the proper rules! The dealer had to teach us and at…

10 September 2014
USA

It’s Vegas, baby!

We flew up to Las Vegas for the weekend! Returned only early this morning because of flight delays – a first in our lives. Also, Fu officially swears off Southwest Airlines. First and last time flying with them. More on that in another post.…

8 September 2014
Personal

Table Tennis fever

Fu often played table tennis when he was young and the passion was reignited when he joined the table tennis club at his previous company where they gathered once a week to play. However, ever since coming to Austin and discovering that his new…

5 September 2014
Personal

It’s a monthsary!

We’ve been in USA for exactly one month now! I’ve experienced many things in this one month, and they’re probably too many to recount, but I’ll write down the more memorable ones, both good and bad. #1: Milk I love milk and have a…

4 September 2014
USA

Outlet mall shopping in San Marcos, Texas

We started off the Labor Day weekend with an outlet mall shopping marathon! I thought that there might be better discounts over a holiday, so I planned for this trip from way back in early August. I’ve been excited about outlet malls in the…

3 September 2014
USA

Bat watching in Austin, TX

Austin is known as the The Live Music Capital of the World and apart from having the most music venues, there is one more thing Austin has the most of… BATS. Before I arrived, I was looking at the hotel’s local attractions guide and…

28 August 2014