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One of my favourite Pixar movies is Up, a beautiful animated film with heart and comedy. The story is centred around a 78-year-old widower, who along with an unlikely child companion, sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream of visiting the mystical Paradise Falls. Their choice of transportation? A colourful house lifted by a bunch of helium balloons, obviously. Now, the same whimsical house has been brought to life in […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/disney-pixar-up-house/feed/ 10 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/universal-studios-orlando-harry-potter/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/universal-studios-orlando-harry-potter/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:17:41 +0000 http://sparklette.net/?p=954

Is this the set of a Harry Potter movie? Potter fans would immediately recognise this as the portrait gallery that features several times in the movies. As a huge Harry Potter fan myself, I just have to talk about the new Harry Potter theme park at the Universal Orlando Resort. Muggles rejoice! Set designers from the Potter movies were brought in to design The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, so […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/universal-studios-orlando-harry-potter/feed/ 23 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-7/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-7/#comments Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:32:05 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-7/

It was night time when we arrived in Dallas, and early morning when we left. I dozed off after all, despite having tried to stay awake the entire night. Overslept, after sleeping for a grand total of two hours. So from then on it was a mad rush to the airport to get everything checked in. The security policies at the checkpoint were rather stringent. They had to check all […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-7/feed/ 19 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-6/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-6/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:02:09 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-6/

It was our last day in Dallas, and my most favourite day of the entire trip. Firstly, it was the day that we wrapped up work. Secondly, we got to do some sightseeing! Damn, some touristy stuff finally! Dallas is the city where john f. Kennedy was assassinated. In fact, the building from which the sniper, lee harvey oswald fired his shots is still around. It has since been converted […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-6/feed/ 8 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-5/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-5/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:25:58 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-5/

It was rather tiring after spending most of the day working. This was a business trip after all so there wasn’t much time to go sight-seeing. We were in the car pretty much most of the time which explains why my pictures are mostly of food and shopping, and rarely of the unique buildings and sights. America is clearly a country that’s designed for driving. It looks as though everyone […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-5/feed/ 1 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-4/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-4/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:55:24 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-4/

Most of the day was spent working, as it would be for the next couple of days as well. When we finally took a breather, it was at a nice Tex-Mex restaurant. Ahhh… Mexican food again! I didn’t mind one bit. It was fun learning about the various terms used in Mexican food. My corn-based quesadilla (tortilla with cheese) was covered with melted monterey jack cheese. Loved it! Over here, […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-4/feed/ 20 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-3/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-3/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:54:40 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-3/

Hard rock café. That was the goal of the day. The place seems to have lost its appeal in recent years, but it still excites me! It was a good thing we dropped by. The atmosphere was fabulous for chilling out, with great music and superb decor. The Hard Rock Café in Singapore should really take a leaf out of its book! The building itself looked rather plain and nondescript, […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-3/feed/ 13 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-2/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-2/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:18:18 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-2/

Our first morning in Dallas started off with breakfast at the hotel. I made waffles using their waffle making machine! The waffles turned out to be so awesome they became my daily staple in Dallas. If I hadn’t grown fat from all the food I would have bought a waffle maker the minute I returned to Singapore! It was a really cloudy day, so cloudy we couldn’t even see the […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-2/feed/ 18 https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-1/ https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-1/#comments Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:47:31 +0000 http://sparklette.net/archives/dallas-texas-day-1/

Ah… The Dallas trip. That’s my maiden visit to the land of opportunity and I’m one hundred percent sure it wouldn’t be my last. I loved almost everything about the place! The people! The stores! The buildings! The TV channels! The weather! And best of all, the food! I’m pretty convinced you can’t find any food there that doesn’t taste good. At least, we didn’t find any. But the flight […]]]> https://sparklette.net/travel/usa/dallas-texas-day-1/feed/ 14