I always thought my car had a 20-gallon gas tank. Until I filled up on 21.067 gallons today. My car almost didn't start this morning, and was seriously shaking pretty badly this afternoon as I drove to the gas station - I was scared my car wouldn't make the one block to the nearest gas station! And man, talk about gas prices going up - it cost me $46 to fill up the sucker. ouch! I think I've learned my lesson. I tried to look up the real fuel capacity on my car, but the one website I found said that it was 19.8 gallons, and, well, that can't be right. Go figure, anyone know the tank size of a 1997 960 Volvo?

I did some luxury camping this weekend. By luxury, I mean we had steak for dinner (cooked over the camp fire)... and a couple of us rebels (arex, ang, andrea, enoch, joseph, and i) decided not to do the hike. So what'd we do? Instead, we went to the beach, a marine discovery center, a surf museum, a monarch butterfly obervatory, and yes, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. How's that for camping? At least we slept in tents!

Also, on Friday, we stopped by Cupertino on the way to the campsite to eat dinner. Instead of eating at one of the abundant fast food restaurants or chinese/asian restaurants, we decided to eat at Country Inn. Yeah, we took one step into the restaurant.... and 98% of the diners were cacuasian senior citizens! No joke. Every table had at least one person over 65 years old... I think we were the only asians and the only table completely under 30 years old. seriously, it must be their safe haven from all those asian people living in Cupertino. "where do you want to eat tonight?" "somewhere where i can find people like me." "Country Inn it is!" quite the experience. andrew commented that all restaurants in the midwest are like that... i can't even imagine going to school or growing up in the midwest. ask andrew sometime about his music teacher.