First off, I updated our address labels on my blog page. For any of you who "saved" it before, you might want to delete that one and use this new one. The old one got mail here, but it was missing our "alley" information which is now on there. Hard to explain, but it's there now. This one is more exact and could possibly make the mail delivery a little faster. And in case you were wondering - it costs Sarah and I about 33 cents (US money) to mail a letter from Taiwan to US. Granted it takes a little longer, but it's still cheaper for me to mail something to the US from here than it is in Rochester. I also mailed a package to the US - about 2 pounds and it cost around $5 US which is probably cheaper than sending it from Rochester. Gotta love that math! So if you're coming to visit us and have a lot of things to mail, bring 'em on over!!!
Sarah starts school today (actually, her first day will be complete by the time most of you read this)!! As are most teachers in the US. And the part where teachers/kids hate going back to school after a relaxing summer... that part is a global hatred expressed by all cultures I've noticed!!
Friday night Sarah and I went for Japanese grilling near our house. We have met someone in our neighborhood who is working in Taiwan, originally from Russia! She joined us as did some of my coworker friends. Sarah was courageous enough to try Octopus (raw Octopus legs - tentacles and all.... but no "ball" of Octopus) that was grilled over the coals. I passed on that one - I've tried Octopus before and didn't really care for it. I do enjoy the pumpkin, sweet potatoes, pork, beef.... very fun meal (takes usually 2 hours to fully appreciate the meal... that includes the 2 bottles of wine we went through).
We had a wonderful weekend with our first visitors, Jeff and Claire. It was also one of the most humid weekends yet - so we got in as much walking as we could and just about melted the entire time. We have a ton of pictures to filter though, but they'll be up by tomorrow! We got some sight seeing in between rain showers. Mainly places I've been before, but still new to Sarah and definitely new to our guests. We did go up Taipei 101 at night which was BEAUTIFUL!!! Nothing like it in the world:) Plus we used the bathroom so I considered it "pissing on top of the world". Grand Hotel, Martyr's Shrine, lots of good Taiwanese food!!!!
Michael Phelps is simply a stud. Granted we don't have the over hype here on TV with Bob Costas practically worshiping him, but you still get enough of a feeling to realize that what Phelps did was remarkable. Did you see the Brazilian guy who won the 50m sprint? The best part was how emotional he was for the next 30 minutes. Pretty neat to see his whole Brazilian swim team come out and celebrate with him. Other sports we've been able to see - ping pong, both singles and doubles.... doubles is FUN to watch. I've honestly never seen doubles in Ping Pong on TV before:) Tennis (Nadal continues to kick the world's ass in 2008... potential to do the "golden" slam like Agassi did.
Tuesday is Sarah and my trip to Lion King here in Taipei. Yes, it's in English. No, Elton John will not be making a guest appearance. Yes, Sarah will be singing along I'm sure. No, I will not be sitting next to her in the 2nd half if she does sing.
Probably the funniest part of the weekend was finding a Japanese show on TV that has a monkey walking a dog around.... here's one of the clips:
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