We arrived before 6:00 AM and everything at immigrations went smoothly. It was interesting to see that they were screening all disembarking passengers with a thermal scanner to detect people with illness – a holdover from the SARS epidemic.
Cramming 2 cars seats into the back of Mr. Huang’s station wagon was no easy task, and Irene barely had any room at all. That may be a problem as the trip progresses, we dont have any other means of auto transportation.
There’s a typhoon coming and the weather is clear, hot and muggy. No matter where we went as we drove through Taipei, we can see Taipei 101, the world largest building. If the weather holds, we might visit tomorrow when we can see.
Not much sight-seeing or adventure today: unpacking and letting the kids unwind is a full-time job. We did go out for a walk for some food and to obtain phone SIM cards. Success on food, none on the SIM cards, but planned to try again later in the day.
In the afternoon, I managed to take a nap, but apparently started to toss, turn and mutter in the evening. Irene thought I was awake and insisted I get ready to go get the SIM card before they closed. I wasn’t awake, but it was lunchtime back home, which may account for my tossing. I felt like I’d been clubbed unconscious and just couldn’t wake up properly. I finally dragged myself up and we went after the SIMs, but the store was closed.
Here it is at 3:30 AM and Michelle is wide awake, she ran into her grandparents’ room, turned on their light and dragged grandma up.
All the commotion woke me up and then I was wide awake too. Poor grandma was trying to entertain Michelle, but she was obviosuly asleep, so I finally put some Bugs Bunny and Finding Nemo on the computer for Michelle to watch and that got her distracted long enough for grandma to go back to bed and for me to start writing.
It’s 5:45 now and the sun is coming up. Michelle will be wanting to go to the park soon.