Diving in Longdong

Summer in Taiwan - it's definitely here and I don't enjoy sweating every time I walk to the 7-11 around the corner. Thankfully there is either a 7-11, a Family Mart, or an OK Mart or whatever it's called. So for your "convenience" the 2007 data said there were 9300+ convenience stores on the 13,891 square mile island and 23 million people. That comes out to one store for every 2450 people. Not staggering enough of a stat? Considering only 1/3 of the island is actually occupied (rest is mountains or beaches or farmland), that leaves 2 convenience stores per square mile. Now that one sounds like a lot, but come visit Taipei, it's more like 2 convenience stores per city block. I can visit 4 Family Marts all within a 3 minute walk from start to finish.

We did some scuba diving this weekend. It was hot and sunny, but no better way to cool off then to go under water:) We went up to the Northeast part of Taiwan again, near Keelung (port city in the North) but the bay area was actually called "Longdong Bay".... I kid you not! Enter perverted joke here..... Longdong Bay was full of lots of people, other scuba divers, some people learning to snorkel, and other people just swimming and enjoying the water. So I guess you could say there were lots of sea men (and women) in Longdong bay yesterday....

This is the final week of NHL - hopefully in the favor of the Red Wings. It's also the NBA finals, but does anyone really care anymore? Since fan voting doesn't determine the outcome, hard to imagine that people still want to watch Kobe cry after winning a trophy thanks to yet another "big man".

Big week for Birthdays and Anniversaries! I'll try to remember them all - I sometimes get screwed up with the time difference too. Happy birthday tomorrow Jen!