Man, been in Minnesota for almost a week now, and this will be my first post about a full day in town. I didn’t think it’d be this hard to get online, but of all my extended family, only one cousin (the one who’s getting married) has it at her condo. And I have reception for my cell almost nowhere. Arg!

So yeah, here’s my Sunday. I woke up at 6 AM. Which is 4 AM bacak in Davis. I thought briefly of calling up some people and seeing if they were still up. Of course, no one else was up yet, so I read Warrior Elite, watched TV, wrote down notes for this future post on my paper pad (it feels so weird to do it on paper!) and, being completely out of things to do, napped until 11, when Cau Dung got back from work and Anh Bi woke up. We caught the end of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because Anh Bi had never seen it, and then we headed over to Ong Ba Ngoai’s new place.

Helped out a bit, mostly unpacking and cleaning stuff, and got a call from Chi Hai to make plans with us for the night. That’s where quote comes from.

Oh, and it was also amusing how Cau Minh’s kids were all… “All the cousins? What about Cousin X?” And we’d go “Yes, Cousin X, too. ALL the cousins.” Many times, actually.

We went to Big Bowl for lunch after that. It’s an Americanized Asian food place with a Mongolian BBQ-ish offering. I had the curry chicken. It was… edible. I don’t see this chain spreading to California any time soon.

Then we went with Di Hai and Cau Dung to a bunch of electronics stores because they wanted to get a plasma or LCD TV for Ong Ba ngoai’s new place, since there isn’t really room in the living room for their old TV. (By the way, while we were driving around, I saw a yellow Mustang. ) But yeah, we finally settled on one at Best Buy, but When Di Hai called around to make sure it was cool with all the aunts and uncles (they were all going to split it), Cau Ba said he could could get one for cheaper, and while Cau Dung didn’t agree, Di Hai said forget it, let him try.

Went back to Ong Ba Ngoai’s old place to help clean up a bit. I didn’t realize just how much crap they still had. We threw all this junk into their garage spot, which they use for storage.

After that, went to Chi Hai’s place with all the cousins. She bought Juicy Lucy’s for us all. They are burgers with melted cheese inside the patty… very good. Oh, apprently, when they sell the burgers, they have a disclaimer about how hot the cheese is at first. And how it tends to explode out of the patty. Gio Linh got some in her hair. Chi Ba came back from chilling with her friends and came over with Mike, too. We chilled, watched Ocean’s Twelve, and played Guesstures, boy cousins vs girl cousins. The girls were up by a bit, but then the older cousins and I took off for 21-and-up fun.

So we went to this Irish pub called “The Local.” Tried to teach everyone to play Buffalo, but they were all pansies and wouldn’t play right, so they bargained it down it down to three finger’s worth instead of downing the drink. And they made up a punishment for mis-Buffalos, too. I did some stuff on purpose just to drink. Chi Be was very amused by “tricking” me with her leftiness.

Walked back to Hennan’s place, where the cousins smoked up. I sat in the corner and watched the antics. Then we went back to Chi Hai’s place. I killed some leftover burgers, and Anh Bi pushed Nick to drink more with him. Everyone else passed out, and since this was the one place I could get internet, I was online until about 2:30 in the morning.