Tuesday, December 27, 2005

O Behave!

The Aussie has been a bit lazy in updating his blog...so time for an update!

Well the year in Singapore has been a hectic one...so the Aussie is taking a 4.5 week holiday to the 'ole US of A for some good R and R! Anyway the most cost effective way to visit the west coast was to join a tour. Little did i know that the tour was run by Asians...for Asians. So the break i really wanted from Asia hasn't really worked out. And let me tell u, Asians on tour behave no differently from when they are at home.

Lemme give you a few examples:

Incident 1 - Disneyland.
What a colourful place! Amazing! Anyway the Aussie was one of the first to board a mammoth 'Pirate Ship' to navigate around Tom Sawyers Island. As he got on, he was pushed out of the way by a gangly Chinese tourist with camera in hand, racing for the front of the boat to get the best possie for his home video! Crazy asians with their cameras...

Incident 2 - Dodgy all u can eat buffet in LA.
So we arrive at this dodgy looking restaurant on some back streets in LA...which our tour guide professes is the cheapest and best in LA. Cheap it was indeed...Anyway we get into the place and our Aussie is busting for the loo so he dashes to the toilet where he is greeted by a group of older 55 plus year old men...who were snorting and coughing in the toilets like a bunch of buffalo being electrocuted who had eaten too much chilli. It was disgusting..it was like an orchestra of snot noise. YUCK!Anway i'm on a tour bus to San Francisco now and the bus driver only speaks Spanish and he's LOST! We've taken a wrong turn, overshot our destination and now we've taken another wrong turn so we've missed our lunch destination. And to top it off our tour guide speaks English and Mandarin but not Spanish! Everyone is tired, hungry and needs to pee!

Until next time...adios!