Yep, I’m in Taiwan.
After an almost-14-hour flight early Saturday (in the US), we arrived in Taiwan early Sunday (in Taiwan). I’m not a fan of flying, but our flight only had light turbulence, making it pretty manageable. Especially since I zonked out for like 9 hours on the plane from being exhausted prior to getting on. Aside from obnoxiously shrieking baby (with a black eye??) in front of us, it was a decent flight.
Even though it’s winter, Taiwan is fairly warm at the moment with its thick humidity. We haven’t done anything particularly exciting since I got here. I visited my dad in his fancy shmancy new house, napped a lot at my grandparents’ house (where I’m staying), and played a lot of New York Times Crosswords on the DS (a last minute impulse buy at Target before we left). Kelvin has been playing Rune Factory (a Harvest Moon RPG with more action) nonstop, trying to get level 100 radishes and enslaving bees.
We made a trip to Sophia Ritz for the consultation of our engagement/wedding photos session. We’re taking the actual pictures on Thursday, but I don’t know when we’ll be able to get proofs. I’ll talk about it more after I take the photos.
A couple food disappointments coming into Taiwan. 1) My favorite beef noodle stand located a block from my grandparents’ house closed shop some time during year-and-a-half since I was last here. It is always one of my goals coming into Taiwan to eat beef noodles every day, and the closing down of the closest and my most favorite noodle place greatly depresses me. I’ve eaten there every time I’ve come back to Taiwan! So sad… 2) Something I ate yesterday apparently didn’t agree with me, and I’ve been having painful stomach issues since then. Going to Sophia Ritz to try on dresses didn’t help things. The girl putting dresses on me should be thankful I didn’t pass gas when she was crushing me with those dress tops. (I did let a little burp go one time tho.) I haven’t really done anything today except try to get over the stomach thing. It seems to be getting better, so hopefully I’ll be able to get back to eating abrasive, spicy foods again.
New thing I learned today: An awl is a tool used by leatherworkers to punch holes in leather.
I’m learning a lot of useless vocabulary playing New York Times Crosswords. The sad thing is that a lot of the things I’ve learned, Kelvin already knew. Ah well, makes him a useful crossword puzzle solver helper.
