The Flinstones

This was definitely one of the highlight of this trip, being able to see dinosaur remains outside of a museum. We were on our way into Monument Valley when we saw this huge sign by the road that said "Dinosaur Tracks". It looked a little dubious, because most of the attraction spots had huge signs and posts miles away informing people  where they were but this one was a hand painted sign. Curious, we followed the sign. This was on the preserve land, so it's not operated by anybody, and it's free. We had a friendly guide who explained what tracks or who's bones we were looking at. It was really exciting, little did I expect to be able to see dino tracks live on location! 

As you can see clearly, those are foot prints and partial bone fossils, but can you guess what are those rounded mounds? 

MartAnne's Cafe

Everywhere we went, we always rely on good ol' Yelp for a good place to eat. For breakfast, we wanted to try local good food, so we went to MartAnne's Cafe. This place is so quirky cool. It's very small, as you can see from my little thumbnail, the ceiling is painted with cloud motives and the whole place is filled with colorful local art work. We ordered something special, but I forgot what exactly it was, all I remember was had hashbrowns, beans, cheese, pork and eggs. It was SUPER good and believe me, it can fit 3 little ladies' tummies. At our case only 2 ladies'. Hahahhaa...... Yumms. :)

Postcard Moments

 

"I was commissioned by a certain vehicle company to take a product shot", I would love to have said this as you look at this beautiful shot, but nope, it just happened that I took a shot which turned out to be quite a picture perfect moment, don't you think so?  :) This is the reliable vehicle that took us through Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Flagstaff and  Monument Valley.

Then there's also all these picture perfect moment of Monument Valley. Here we're looking at the West, East Mitten Butte, and Merrick Butte on the left.

Can you spot Elephant Butte? 

The 3 sisters.

Finally, the Totem Poles.

Grand Canyon

It was a beautiful day to drive into Grand Canyon. Words can't describe the beauty of nature. I especially love seeing the golden weeds being blown by the strong wind. 

The ever changing colors of the Grand Canyon. Depending on the time and the location of the day.

Decadence

Do you love chocolate? Then you MUST visit the world's largest chocolate fountain, here in the Bellagio Hotel. Everything in Jean Philippe is mouth watering. Especially the breakfast pastries... yummy but we decided to go for the crepes. We had the  berry mix and exotic fruit crepe Souffle. Yummss...nothing beats sweet delicious crepe and aromatic coffee in the morning! 

For lunch, YC treated us to Julian Serrano in Aria. I love tapas, when I saw the menu, I couldn't really decide what to order, in the end, we decided on the non-alcoholic sangria, ahi raspberry skewer, octopus on potatoes, fried calamari, cheese plater and coca vegetarian. Coca? It's spanish pizza.

You would think such small portions would not be sufficient but surprisingly, we were very very full at the end of the meal. Makes me miss Spain for all the tapas. Nonetheless, thanks YC for the lovely lunch! :)

Vegas Vegas!

I love glitz, glamour and glass. Haha... I love everything that is shinny, colorful and pretty.

This is Vegas during the day.

 

 

 

 

And this is Vegas during the night, I think it's more mesmerizing at night with the colors and lights!











 

So much to see yet so little time, o Vegas I must return! :)

Mon Ami Gabi

What could be more fashionable than sitting at the patio basking in the warm beautiful sun in a cold cold winter day? Being new in town, we Yelped for a good place for lunch. This place had over thousands of review for having good food in a good location with a good view. Even with reservations, we still have to wait a tad over 10 minutes for a table but it was worth it. The place was beautiful, we were having lunch in Paris, the hotel in Las Vegas, right on the strip. *chuckle*. Look we even had the Eiffel Tower view!

 

My lunch at Mon Ami Gabi was yummy, I had the scallop gratinees and endives salad. I was a little shocked when I saw that I was only served 3 scallops but it was so rich you wouldn't want more than 3 scallops! It was cooked with caramelized fennel, onion marmalade and mussel cream. The salad came with bosc pear, blue cheese, watercress and celery. It was very satisfying without feeling guilty at all! The rest of the party had the seafood crepe, spinach quiche, and shrimp and crab salad sandwich topped with avocado! Oh I forgot to mention, they serve warm fresh baguette with homemade smooooooth butter! To die for! :)