Grand Prix 2012

I am now exhausted but had a great weekend with family guests and friends!


Friday night, once I got back, my family and I went out for dinner with a guest to a restaurant called Avenue 31.
Saturday morning, we picked up the guests at the Metropole shopping centre because they need passes to cross the bridge over the track to get to our place. Then we had our annual buffet lunch party until around 3pm. In the evening, my family and I went to the newly opened Cipriani restaurant with some of the guests. The food was great! My father took us all for drinks to Zelo's for a drink afterwards, and then I went to the Billionaire's club with my friends.

Sunday, it was the big race! So we had the lunch buffet party again with all the guests.

Here's a video of the top 5 racers from this Sunday taken from our balcony:

1. Mark Weber

2. Nico Rosberg

3. Fernando Alonso

4. Sebastian Vettel

5. Louis Hamilton

After the race, we all went to walk around on the race track and had drinks at the Hotel de Paris. 

Today, we went to the Larvotto Beach and had lunch at La Note Bleue. It was a lot of fun this whole weekend but I've eaten so much I feel so full! Tomorrow will be my salad day!

Home-bound! Grand Prix 2012

I'm back in Monaco today and will be joining the family and guests for dinner at a restaurant, Avenue 31. Monaco is right in the middle of the Grand Prix, so our family is having our annual Grand Prix Buffet Party tomorrow and Sunday to watch the races and feast with about 20-40 guests every year.

But I hear that the weather forecasts say that it will rain this weekend :(
Although it might make things interesting, race-wise, I get back from 30+ degrees celsius of inland US so I wanted to enjoy the sun and the beach of Monaco!

Anyway, I'm sure this weekend will be exciting... as it always is!

I'll upload pictures in the blogs to follow!

California!!

I'm going to be in Sacramento in California, US for the next 3 weeks and I just arrived Monday. It was the first time for me to take 3 consecutive flights and man, its tiring! I went from Nice -> London -> Los Angeles -> Sacramento. I left my house at 5.30am and I arrived in Sacramento at 6pm (+9h for the time difference) so basically, I was traveling for almost 22 hours!
I flew British Airways the first two flights and then American and I was very glad that all went smoothly. My first flight was a little late, and I only had an hour to change flights, but there was a BA lady waiting as I got off the plane who gave me this bright orange piece of folded paper to show that I was running late and had to be let through the fast track immigration and security lanes. So I was at the next gate in no time.
Then the flight to LA was supposed to take over 11 hours but the wind was blowing in the right direction and we were told that it would only take 10 hours instead. Score! hehe.
So I had a little more time when I arrived in LAX Airport. I'd been told by a couple of people that it was a really annoying and confusing airport because of the lack of signs and the long customs and security checks. Indeed, there was a very long queue for customs and it turns out, despite the French lady in Nice Airport telling me that my luggage would go directly to Sacramento without having to re-check it, the audio annoucement kept repeating, "All luggages must be collect here and re-checked in after security control. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS."
It was a good thing I'd researched how to get to the different terminals for transfer so I knew where I was going.
And look what I found while waiting for my next flight:

It's a vending machine selling cameras, phones and Nintendo DS'!! Wow to America. haha I'd never seen that one before! 

Also while I was waiting, I got a text from my boyfriend that he was going to pick me up at the airport! But I didn't have any make up on and after all that traveling, you can imagine how my skin looked! :s And because the gate was such a far off place, I couldn't find a nearby toilet, so I had to use Photo Booth on my MacBook! I looked so silly trying to put liquid eye liner 2cm away from my computer screen! haha

Then, the airplane! It was the smallest I'd ever seen! It was smaller than some of the tall men and there were only 3 seats per row! 

Well now I am comfortably arrived in Sacramento and enjoying my holiday in the sun! Hope the weather improves in Monaco too!