Date: 18 Dec 2009 Friday
09:00 AM Checking Out
We woke up at 8 AM instead of the planned 05:30 AM. We decided to leave Las Vegas without breakfast. We aimed to have breakfast at Mad Greek Cafe, which we had no idea what time it opens. This was the reason why we had a change of our planned “wake-up” time.
Our luggage + the tub of cheeseballs
Leaving Planet Hollywood Hotel…
Goodbye Las Vegas!!!
10:35 PM The Mad Greek Cafe
A – Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino
B – The Mad Greek Cafe, Baker
Total distance 143.0 km
Mad Greek is opened 24 hours daily!!!
Fresh Strawberry Mad Shake – highly recommended 🙂 I had enjoyed it though I dislike milk shakes.
JR’s Mad Gyro (Yee-Roh) with fries
Sandwich of beef & lamb sliced directly off Rotisserie served with onion & tomatoes on pita bread & cucumber sauce
My Chicken Souvlaki with Tasty Rice
11:10 AM Back on the Road
Snowy mountains
13:00 PM First McDonald’s Historic Site and Museum
A – The Mad Greek Cafe, Baker
B – First McDonald’s Historic Site and Museum
Total distance 212.0 km
JR trying to squeeze into the small seat.
McDonald’s first menu
Hamburglar
Just outside McDonald’s Museum – Bugs Bunny. Think it is not related to McDonald’s.
While leaving, JR did a right turn into the wrong lane. He was driving in the opposite direction towards an oncoming car. Both of us were stunned for a moment before we realised that we were in the wrong lane. Luckily we realised it early and went back to the correct lane. What an exciting trip!
13:25 PM Ontario Mills
A – First McDonald’s Historic Site and Museum
B – Ontario Mills
Total distance 30.8 km
Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet
Target
Rainforest Cafe
Lego Outlet Store
Cool machine at the Lego store. This machine will display an animated image of how the scanned box of lego would look like when it is completed.
Apples dipped in different flavours
Chocolates
Christmas Dog Biscuits. Wanted to get for my å®è´ä»¬ BUT…. the biscuits would “expire” before I could get them back to Singapore.
We finished our shopping an hour before the planned time. We were famished after all the walking and shopping. We chose to have Chinese food from Panda Express. There was a long queue in front of the store.
Finally got our food!
Fortune Cookie
Fried rice with fried noodles, with 3 sides – Orange Chicken (Sweet Sour Chicken), Mushroom Chicken and Broccoli Beef.
The food was unexpectedly good! Maybe because we were hungry or perhaps it was a long time since we had Chinese food.
From the Fortune Cookie – You will enjoy good health and financial independence. We left Ontario Mills after the meal.
19:20 PM Four Points by Sheraton
A – Ontario Mills
B – Four Points by Sheraton
Total distance 168.0 km
It was already 7 PM when we arrived at our next hotel. We were caught in a bad jam on the highway.
Our room was on the 2nd floor. There are only 3 storeys in this hotel.
The bed
Air-condition unit is on the ground.
Clean… Clean
Everything is labelled with “Clean”.
We went out once more to Carlsbad Premium Outlets Mall to collect our Go San Diego cards, which we would be using them the next day. We did some shopping until 9 PM.
A – Four Points by Sheraton
B – Carlsbad Premium Outlets
Total distance 40.5 km
We bought a set of KFC meal back to the hotel for dinner.
3 piece chicken meal – 1 crispy, 1 original and 1 grilled. The set comes with a biscuit, just like Popeye! Yummy!