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Visited Monterey Bay Acquarium

As my parents just recently came to visit us in USA , I took them to Monterey Bay Aquarium in July 20th. We had lunch in Ambrosia Indian Cuisine nearby before entering the aquarium. We saw all the creatures there, took photos and videos. This time we were lucky to catch the session of feeding the fishes in afternoon. There was around half an hour demonstration that we enjoyed a lot and wondered why the sharks are not attacking the lady who was trying to feed them despite her skuba diving materials and masks. We covered 17 miles drive, Pebble beach and the gold course where Tiger Woods come to play. It was a 216 miles drive the whole day and no one seemed overwhelmingly tired including little Ahyan.

Top 10 Cities Travel & Leisure Awards

Well, I work in the 10th city in this list. :-) http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/2008/results.cfm?cat=cities Rank -> In 2007 -> Name -> Score 1 -----> 3 -----> Bangkok -----> 87.61 2 -----> 2 -----> Buenos Aires -----> 87.24 3 -----> 10 -----> Cape Town -----> 86.59 4 -----> 5 -----> Sydney -----> 86.49 5 -----> 1 -----> Florence -----> 86.24 6 -----> None -> Cuzco, Peru -----> 86.15 7 -----> 4 -----> Rome -----> 85.12 8 -----> 6 -----> New York -----> 85.03 9 -----> 8 -----> Istanbul -----> 84.61 10 -----> 9 -----> San Francisco -----> 84.42

Independence Day Fireworks and Shopping In San Francisco

This independence day long weekend, I along with my Shusmita and son Ahyan stayed overnight in San Francisco to watch fireworks and to shop in Union Square. My friend Nitol joined us at 4th July noon when we started in a relax mode. We reached Club Quarters in San Francisco (in Embarcadero) and parked my car in a nearby garage. Then we caught BART for shopping in WestField . In the evening we came back to Ferry Building to watch fireworks, but we couldn't watch well from there. So we started walking towards Pier 39 with Ahyan in Stroller. There we could watch the fires very closely. Ahyan was scared of the sounds and hence started crying loud. We finished our dinner just opposite to my office in market street and then Nitol went back to Fremont while we headed towards our hotel room. http://picasaweb.google.com/nitol.shabbir/4thOfJulyAtSanFrancisco The next morning we went to Naan N Curry in O'Farrell Street. Shusmita did a lot of shopping from Union Square and we returned