San Francisco 2012 (August 4-7, 2012)

August 4

I ended up getting less than 5 hours of sleep, waking up at 4:30am to get ready to leave.  It was a rough morning at the airport because we were so close to the deadline for check-in.  Once I was on the plane, I passed out for two hours.  I was surprised at the film selections that they have on the plane as some of them were pretty recent.  Once we landed in San Francisco, it was all family affair and met up with two different group of families (for lunch and then for dinner).

August 5

Today was the 'party' day, but before it comes the shopping trip.  The mall we went to was equivalent to Vaughan Mills here.  We didn't as much stuff as we think we would, but got a few pairs of shoes.  After shopping, we head home to get ready for the party.  When we arrived to the restaurant, my grandpa put my brother and I at the entrance to locate the seating for people.  The problem was that our comprehension of Chinese was limited (especially when the characters were in simplified).  The rest of the night was awkward because my brother and I were placed into a random table as a results of a dispute of two families.  Thank god that time flew because I really didn't want to be there.

August 6

Our second shopping trip was to San Jose (I totally forgot the mall's name.  It's West-something).  Today's trip was mainly looking for formal wear stuff.  We went to Macy's to look at suits, and boy there was a huge selection.  We ended up getting 3 sets of suits, where I can fit nicely into all 3 of them, and my brother can only fit into 2 of them nicely.  After the suit shopping, we were pretty much exhausted.

August 7

Originally, we had a stacked schedule in the morning before we leave San Francisco in the afternoon.  Things started to crumble when my uncle couldn't board on his flight to San Francisco form Hong Kong, and went to Japan instead.  We were supposed to visit our other aunt in San Francisco, but decided to cancel on that because we were going to meet up again in Toronto later in on this month.  We had out last lunch in San Francisco, and went to the airport for our flight.