Sunday night, the "tet" festival and more

I just got back from going to the Lunar New Year festival (or the Vietnamese Spring Festival) in downtown San Jose with Ngoc. It was neat to see. Loud music, karaoke and vietnamese booths and food. It was small, but fun. It was nice to see Ngoc so excited about me being involved with one of her childhood memories. Afterwards we walked across the street to a Johnny Rockets and had a root beer float & an ice cream sundae. Ngoc didn't really notice a cultural shift, but I did. One minute we're in a rowdy vietnamese festival, the next we're sitting in a 1950s Americana diner listening to The Beach Boys and sipping root beer out of a shared glass with our own straws. Only in America... After that we went grocery shopping, then took a nice drive up into the hills above the Santa Clara valley to watch the city glow. Its nice to get a changed perspective from the massive, glowing boulevards and shopping centers.