If you hear Americans say it’s only 15 minutes from here to there, it means 15 minutes drive, not on foot. So it is hard for us to go shopping from where I live to any marts around us. But just as I said in one of the former dairy that we could go home from UCSD on foot for about 2 hrs, so it’s much easier for us to go to Ranch 99 Mart on foot only for about half an hour.

The goods we bought is rather much and heavy, for we have to prepare for the whole week, the only bus there is No. 44, and we don’t like taking buses. Forturenately the trolleys are allowed to push out of the mart anywhere you like, so it’s very convenient for us to bring the goods home. The only thing is we have to walk home under the sunshine, I mean, the hot sunshine.

On the way back, we found several trolleys beside the road, and some of them fallen into the valley, they are from different marts, such as Ralphs, Henry’s, Walmart, Vons and so on. I know that Americans don’t care about that, and maybe they recover them at certain time.

Yesterday, the load’s tempered glass began to break and today it became broken completely, even we don’t know the reason, but it is broken. So Maria, daughter of the load, asked us to replace it. Sure it is reasonable for us to pay for the tempered glass, we asked the size and the color, and what is the glass we will find is bigger than the old one, Maria agreed happily and said she didn’t care about the color, transparent or not. Maria is a good girl, she is kind enough to tell us that never use the broken glass again, for it’s dangerous indeed.

We’ve been to the Claremont Square, there is a hardware store, but there is no tempered glass at all, only glass for windows. We had to go to somewhere else, and just near Henry’s, there is an ABC Glass, but it doesn’t open on the weekends, so we just noted the phone number and have to wait until the next Monday.

Before we went back, we came to Ralphs, the female college live with us tried to search for some cosmetics, I just stay where fruits and vegetables are sold, not for the prices or other things, but for the English names of them. I noted them down, and it made me happier than usual.