Drive

This morning my AC got delivered on time at 8:30! I was very happy, but I could not go back to sleep. I stayed up and watched Dan In Real Life on DVD. It was a sweet and cute romantic comedy. Juliette Binoche was beautiful, funny and sexy. I had never seen her in an American indie or romantic comedy before, it was refreshing to see her in a different light. The soundtrack worked with the movie very well too, quiet and moving. The chemistry between the actors was strong and they stayed connected. I really liked it.

Dave and Jose came over just when I was finishing the movie. We were going to drive down to Eric's surprise party, thrown by Mike. It was a good drive. We stopped in Anaheim to visit Grace. Her restaurant, Nice Food, was so busy! We ate a lot of food there, of course. Cold noodle, leek cake, orange chicken, smoke chicken w/ 1000 year old egg, meatball with turnip, snow greens with soybean, eggplant with green bell pepper, and beansprouts with leek. They were all good and we were stuffed. Dave and Jose somehow found room for boba drinks, so we got two different flavors to go. I skipped on the drinks because I was way full.

The drive down to SD was easy. We arrived before Eric got home and everyone was waiting for him. Of course, he walked up the stairs before we were prepared. So we were the ones got surprised. He was happy to see us and drank plenty. I chatted with Steve more whom I hadn't seen in a long time. It was nice to meet new people too. We left before 5 and stopped in Anaheim again so we could refuel and go to Home Depot for some stuff needed for my AC installation.

We came back around 7:30 and Dave helped me unpack and install the AC in the bedroom. It worked well and seemed a lot more fancy than I thought. The project was not done yet, so Dave would have to come back to finish the job. For now, it was good enough.

We had dinner at Tasty Noodle. We ordered mapo tofu, string beans, bittermellon, and leek buns. I know, more Chinese food! The waitress was attentive, but she forgot our green onion cake. It was fine, we ate too much already. Dave and Jose left around 10. This definitely has been a driving-all-over and pretty productive day.