This is by far the most most stressful day of all!
After breakfast, we went outlet shopping! We have only got 2.5hrs to shop as we needed to get into Philadelphia early. And so..... In 2.5hrs, I managed to blow more than 1000 bucks in Coach, Crocs and Lacoste. *sigh* I am not going to shop for the rest of the year.
We managed to get into Philly with time to spare for an evening stroll. To save some money on accommodations, we decided go stay in Apple Hostel in the old city of Philadelphia. It has been a long time since any of us stayed in a hostel. The last time we did that was in Melaka last year, where we decided to postpone the Us trip to this year, and went to Tibet instead. Hahaha...
Apple Hostel is very well-run. Clean and spacious even in the 10 pax dorm. Good security too.
We took a stroll South along Society Hill. It's filled with loads of restored houses that were homes to prominent American political figures. We chanced upon South Street which filled with the smell of fried onions!! It's home to the original Philly Cheesesteaks! Jim's queue was too long so we settled for 'SOS- Steak On South. Nice but portion was Humongous!
Day 2- New York City- Atlantic City
After a simple breakfast at the hotel, we headed back to JFK airport to collect our car from Dollar rental.
The lady at the counter was very nice and upgraded us to a SUV, Chevrolet Captiva. Nice! My first time driving a SUV! It was a series of unfortunate events. Hahaha.. It was super funny in the sense, the 1st one they gave us, we started cleaning the car even before we started the engine! After like 5 mins of hard cleaning, I realized to my horror that I couldn't get it to start at all! The 2nd one had its steering locked and nobody could figure how to unlock it. Finally, after 1 hr of trying to get a proper car, we finally got a black one that works.
And so our USA adventure aka 'GET FAT + SHOPPING' trip started from here.
I drove all the from NYC to Atlantic City. Along the way, it rained quite a fair bit so there isn't too much scenery. After about 3hrs of drive, we finally reached Atlantic City. We spent the night with Chelsea Pub & Inn, a small Inn ran by a French lady. It's a bit old but good enough for us.
Spent the rest of the afternoon strolling on the Pacific Boardwalk. Nice place to just stroll and soak oneself into the beach atmosphere. Loads of food joints + pesky sea gulls + casinos. Hahaha.. That's the American life for you. We decided to have a nice proper seafood dinner at Philly's Seafood. Everyone asked me what is 'ang moh' style seafood. I couldn't list past fried calamari and cajun crayfish. Hahaha...
And so we had; monitor clams, fried calamaris and salad as starters, fried crab cakes, grilled fish and grilled prawns as entrees. Overall, it was a satisfying dinner, which we all over ate. Hahaha...
Surprisingly, we didn't get hit by very bad jetlag. Phew.....
The lady at the counter was very nice and upgraded us to a SUV, Chevrolet Captiva. Nice! My first time driving a SUV! It was a series of unfortunate events. Hahaha.. It was super funny in the sense, the 1st one they gave us, we started cleaning the car even before we started the engine! After like 5 mins of hard cleaning, I realized to my horror that I couldn't get it to start at all! The 2nd one had its steering locked and nobody could figure how to unlock it. Finally, after 1 hr of trying to get a proper car, we finally got a black one that works.
And so our USA adventure aka 'GET FAT + SHOPPING' trip started from here.
I drove all the from NYC to Atlantic City. Along the way, it rained quite a fair bit so there isn't too much scenery. After about 3hrs of drive, we finally reached Atlantic City. We spent the night with Chelsea Pub & Inn, a small Inn ran by a French lady. It's a bit old but good enough for us.
Spent the rest of the afternoon strolling on the Pacific Boardwalk. Nice place to just stroll and soak oneself into the beach atmosphere. Loads of food joints + pesky sea gulls + casinos. Hahaha.. That's the American life for you. We decided to have a nice proper seafood dinner at Philly's Seafood. Everyone asked me what is 'ang moh' style seafood. I couldn't list past fried calamari and cajun crayfish. Hahaha...
And so we had; monitor clams, fried calamaris and salad as starters, fried crab cakes, grilled fish and grilled prawns as entrees. Overall, it was a satisfying dinner, which we all over ate. Hahaha...
Surprisingly, we didn't get hit by very bad jetlag. Phew.....
Day 1- Singapore- Dubai- New York City
The flight was insane! Transit in dubai is never a good idea...It's small and always crowded.
Luckily enough, the flight from dubai to new york is on the A380.
A strange observation that I made on the flight. It's filled with Indians... Hmmm....
Oh well, after a long 23hrs later, we finally landed in JFK airport. Total chaos! Thankfully, we didn't have to deal with any missing luggage....
Proceeded to Hampton Inn near the airport for an overnight stay to get overt the jetlag before we head to Atlantic City.
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