Dawn Rising Sun

We celebrated our wedding anniversary today and SL decided to make a seafood fest for our lunch, lobster, scallops and mashed potato, he started to prepare at 9:30am. Then I just decided to make dessert to complete our dishes, lemon pudding, the one that I tried before but failed, I hoped that it could be good this time. After two hours of preparation, SL had his fest ready and mine was ready to bake, yummy yummy, seafood fest from SL was really delicious, I really loved it, lobster was so tasty and mashed potato was so soft to eat. After lunch, we watched "Nights in Rodanthe" together, but I think it was a bad choice because it is a sad ending story and made me cried quite a long time when Paul was died. Later at evening, we took an hour walk to Winco for grocery shopping then back to home. Well, it was a simple day but I felt happy because we could spend our day together and threw our work behind, it is the life that I wanted to spend on our big day :)

It supposed to be tomorrow is our second wedding anniversary, 27th of September, but we decided to celebrate it on Sunday because we can enjoy it full day and well it is 27th of September in Malaysia now :P I wished that I can just spend this day with SL and escape from work, hopefully that I can make it ^_^ SL is making huge lunch now for our celebration and I plan to make a lemon pudding for our desert.

Finally, I bought a bear that I long looking for in Philadelphia, it is the third in my collection, the first one is from a good friend, he bought it to me from Washington DC in 2005 and SL bought me the second one from San Franscisco in 2006. After four years, I found the third one by myself in Philadelphia, I would consider this is the best souvenior for me from my east coast trip ^_^ I kept looking for the same bear when I was travelling to different cities in US, but I couldn't get one until it reappeared in Philadelphia, happy happy, I am so happy, the rainbow bear seems like some special meaning to me from some mind of point :)

Sooner and sooner, SL and I are going on vacation soon, it will be tomorrow until the end of next week, I am feeling so stress lately, keep on working and forget so many things. I don't even put too much effort on planning for our New York trip, but SL didn't complain me and doing a lot of research and draft the itenary, I feel that I am the most fortune woman in the world ^_^ Stress for few weeks, I think this vacation is really just at the right time, pull me out from all the mess and relax for a week first before I step into dirt again. I think my stress always comes with vacation, recall from my previous trip, that I always need to sit in front of my computer for my work at the day before of departure, until SL complains to me. Anyways, I hope that I will enjoy on my New York trip, I am really looking forward for it. Thanks, SL.

I am quite busy recently, almost is working for whole day, my mind is even still thinking about my work during weekend outing, until my hubby complaint my "passion" on my job. Well, that's a schedule, I just didn't want to miss it, that created some problem between he and me, we got less sharing time and most of my time is in front of laptop :( When I told a friend this, she just told me this is my first time feeling pressure, perhaps she is right, is this really what I want? I start thinking now. For now, I still don't have kids and I don't mind that I spend more time on job, but what if after I have my kids? do I really want to live like that? Hmm... start thinking now.

The Ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles is occupied by Black Ball Ferry and they only depart four times a day, therefore we reserved our ticket online before departure to avoid crowd and unavailability of ticket on the day, there is an additional $11 for reservation fee and it costs about $75 for a vihicle and two adult on board. Due to this is cross border between Canada and US, we needed to arrive 1.5 hours earlier than departure time for custom and immigration checking. Duration of ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles is about 1.5 hours long, we still think the ferry facility from Vancouver to Vancouver Island is better and comfortable :) After arrival to Port Angeles, we took 4.5 hours of driving from Port Angeles to our apartment in Oregon, this can be considered a long journey to us. Ferry detail: http://cohoferry.com/main/

Out of Victoria Downtown, there are still some interesting attractions, some are still accessable by foot, but some you still need a car, however distance would make you feel tired if you walk there. Three are two attractions near to Rockland area, Goverment House and Craigdarroch Castle, they both have stunning building and beautiful garden, which just like a huge mansion. Well, we were walking to these two locations, so that we were quite tired, then I kept taking pictures when SL was taking break at bench :) The Government House is quite big to me and I like the garden as roses are blooming there. However Craigdarroch Castle wasn't as I expected though it still look like a castle in fairy tale, just it look too new to me. On the last day of our trip, we chose to travel by car for saving parking fee in downtown and so that we can travel somewhere further in Victoria. At the morning, we headed to Hatley Park, which is Royal Roads University as well, there we could find a castle st...