MISCELLANEOUS

I've been exploring the city and the surrounding area. One of the most exciting discoveries is that alcohol is so cheap here. Disgustingly cheap, in fact. Imagine my surprise when I went to the Rite-Aid to pick up some nailpolish and discovered an entire aisle devoted to liquor.

We spent a total of $30 on this stuff. The 60 of vodka was, by far, the best deal. I paid an entire $10.99 for it. Here's to cheap ceasars!

We found a delicious sushi bar called Miyake, in downtown Palo Alto. The maki rolls were the most inexpensive I've found so far and the floating sushi boats were fun to look at. They had all sorts of treats to choose from. Good thing Kendrah can stomach all this raw fish, because this is the 3rd or 4th Asian restaurant I've dragged her to in the last week.

This explains the headache I had this morning. I asked for "a beer" and the biggest thing I've ever seen showed up. Four bucks....so I had 2.

Okay, so, it was a sushi bar with loud music and disco lights. And some weird traditions. About every 5 minutes, some random person yells out and a bunch of people jump up on their chairs, drop a tumbler of saki into their beer, and pound it back. Keep in mind, it's WARM saki. Beer mixed with saki......yummmm...... ?

We were at another bar later that night and this random kid (I think he was all of 15) made us some balloon corsages to match our outfits.