吉祥如意

And so I haven't blogged in some time. That's because alot of things have been going on and whenever I'm free I tend to be sleeping or doing something outside.

Continuing from my last post, the 2nd day we got the car, we got pulled over by the rangers! And as poor Ling Han was driving, he was the unlucky person to receive 2 tickets from the rangers totaling USD500: one for driving without a license plate and one for driving without car insurance. So how did that happen? Long story. Basically we bought the car on a Saturday, when everything is closed so we couldn't get the transfer and registration etc done. And when we called the police department in Jackson, they told us it's okay to drive around without a license plate as long as we keep to all traffic rules, and register within ten days. And we all thought that you have to register the car, get an identification number, before you can buy insurance (otherwise how they know what you're insuring?). So we were innocently driving the car around to Mt Washburn, and on the way back we got pulled over. But Ling Han is going to contest the tickets in court because we honestly didn't know and we did actually try to find out by calling the police. And the rangers were not too nice either. Bleah.

But the car has been registered now, and insurance bought. And we have changed it's name to 吉祥如意 because apparently 小脆 is an unlucky name. We have also cleaned the car, both inside and out, and it looks so much better now! And oh, we've figured out how to turn the tail lights off and even to connect mp3 players to the stereo.

Actually, all of us find the incident rather hilarious (except maybe for Linghan). Jessica was like, "Hahahahahahahahahaha I didn't even know tickets went up to 500 dollars hahahahahahaha".

None of us regret buying the car. We have access to so many things now! We can go anywhere and stop anywhere for as long as we like. To give you an idea of things here, the next nearest patch of human civilization is about 45min drive away at Lake Hotel and Old Faithful, the nearest supermarket (a small one) is slightly over 1h drive in West Yellowstone, the nearest big supermarket with tiny Asian food sections is 2.5h drive away in Cody. So yes, we love our car!

Alot has happened in the past 2 weeks: I went camping, watched the rodeo, stayed in a motel for the first time, hiked Mt Washburn, found a Japanese restaurant in Cody, went to Beach Party Night in Old Faithful employee pub, and... Can't remember. Will show pictures soon! I work dinner shift tonight. I hope people will be nice to me.

Everyone have fun!