My family went to Fogo de Chao for dinner tonight. It's another one of those Brazilian meat-on-swords restaurants. It was good stuff, but I think I still prefer Texas de Brazil. A very expensive meal, but well worth it for the amount of meat I ate, heheh.

I finally finished up The Da Vinci Code. It was sooo good. Probably the best book I've read these past couple years. I stayed up till 5 or 6 in the morning several times reading (since I read frickin' slow). The suspense just makes you wanna keep reading and reading. But yea, the story is interspersed with a bunch of random factoids about art/religion/history that I found really interesting/enlightening. And it points out stuff in some of Da Vinci's art that's just like whoooaaaa... never notice THAT before! Oh yea, and I actually managed to solve the second puzzle in the story before I read it- I was quite proud of myself. =P

*I went and saw In America at the Magnolia. It's the story of an Irish family that comes to America to forget about a family tragedy- starting over emotionally. And you just realy empathize with the characters in their economic & emotional plight. It's really sad; like half of the audience was crying at the end. Very good though. Man, indie films are just so subtle & quaint in a way that Hollywood movies can rarely emulate.