Flagstaff town roadtrip , Asian night party , Star Party , Plateau Point hike.

3 months is just too short to explore all of grand canyon. I've been trying to use up all my available time to try something new. Last Sunday , my fellow worker , an local Indian(Yin di an ren) has drove us to the town of flagstaff by her truck. I only remember traveling by a truck once , that's when we were in singapore for steamboat , if ya'all remember. The journey from grand canyon to flagstaff took one and a half hour . We drove thru mountains and fields and deserts . that's really fantastic. We sat behind her truck ... she's driving at a speed of 90 km/hour --- luckilly the road is smooth enough... if not we will definately fly out from the truck !!

long long country road.

Optimus prime has been following us all day. Sun is setting too ~

The most famous store in us ? This is our first stop. We grabbed a total of 120 dollar's stuffs !

2nd stop ... CHINESE RESTAURANT !! You have to see our expressions when we saw the food that we longing for ... 8 dollars eat all you can .. i must say that the buffet is really good ! Its taste is beyond my expectation and the selections of food is so great!

The driver of the night. Sometimes it just makes me wonder why a native american who hunts rabbit and deers for food dares not to eat shrimp. She's terribly scared by our chinese food. She said " Chinese eat everything " ... well .. that's kinda true . You should see how she spit the "C-ham" out !

That pretty sums up the flagstaff roadtrip.... next : asian night party !

at home rely parents , at out rely friends , that's so true ! I have bunch of singaporean friends and we took care of each other !( well , they take care of me more than i do for them). last monday , we gathered at their cabin and cook homecook food together and had a small party.

That's their cabin ... much like ours. It is basically a chalet .. like those you see in hutan bandar or pulau redang . There's a porch infront that we use it to for our cook place ,and there's a long log that we can sit on and chat all night + looking at the stars .

I am officially the food-tester .... or ... the laziest person .

The cook ... and the 2 ma-ma . Those 2 are the nicest person on the earth !!!

we have more people coming later that night but they are not in the picture. The food were so awesome !

well , after the sumptous dinner .... its wine time ! The butterwine is special , it taste like butter , with no alchohol's taste , the others are quite normal wine with different flavours like lime , berrys , stawberrys and all that. There 'll be another BBQ party tonight ... and we are going to try barley's coffee wine , and maybe some other wines.

I dont claim credit for this photo ... it is grabbed from http://www.isomedia.com/ by other guys. It was taken in grand canyon tho. The night sky i see is not as clear as this , but is somewhere near. The milky way i see is like clouds of lights. Anyway , there are astronomers gathering at the grand canyon now to promote astronomy. The astronomer assosiation has gathered some 30-40 astronomers and they brought their telescope to the canyon for visitors like us to view the night sky. We get to see quite a number of stars thru some telescopes set-up by the astronomers. Some telescopres are really cool , they have a computer system built-in and they can rotate the telescope automatically to find the correct possition of the stars. We get to see saturns and its 2 moons ( hubber can see 16 moons tho ) and mars and other planets. One more interesting thing is all the astronomers has a laser pen .. that gives out GREEN colour laser beams. Whether you believe it or not , that laser are as bright as those lasers in danga bay. They use the laser to point out the position of the stars .

Lastly , plateau point hike. Today is my off day , i took the chance to challenge the difficult trail to plateu point alone. It was highly dangerous tho , because of the weather condition . It was very hot and dry the whole morning. I woke up at 4.30 this morning and started hiking the 19 KM 's trail. I soaked my hair , shirts and body 6 times during the hike to keep my body temperature low enough . I drank at least 5 L of water truout the hike. It took me 2.5 hours to go down( part running part walking) and 3.5 hours to climb back up.

This is the view when i looked back the way i came. I hiked from the top of the canyon to where i was taking this photo.

The view of plateau point. The panorama view is fantastic . I think the camera's angle only able to capture 1/4 of the view.