We’re in Taipei.
I’m very proud of my kids, their behavior was almost flawless over the long haul to Taiwan.
The flight was tedious, but I managed to sleep for about 2/3 of it. I was amused by Singapore Air’s choice of TV shows. While I appreciate their choice of Doctor Who as one of the selections, with only one episode to choose from, Rise of the Cybermen, I can’t help wondering if a better choice wouldn’t have been an episode that wasn’t part one of a two-part story. Still, I watched Doctor Who while flying over Siberia. How cool is that?
We arrived around 6:00AM local time, and our goal for today is nothing more than staying awake until 8PM or so.
The rainy season officially started yesterday and it was pouring all morning. It’s hot, humid and miserable, there’s no other description for it. It’s tough adapting from a lifetime of living in the “dry heat†or Arizona.
There’s a snag connecting our laptops into the home network, but hopefully that will be resolved before tomorrow. All I can do now it write posts and wait for a chance to send them.
I haven’t quite figured out what format my posts will take on this trip. Since all we’ve really done today is eat, I’ve been concentrating on taking pictures. I’ve created a single photoset called Taiwan 2007 for the repository of all the photos I upload which should be all photos I take (as a backup). I’ll see about making some form of edited highlights areas.
Afternote: I made it till 6:30, it’s now 2:00AM in the morning and I’m wide awake, but that gave me the opportunity to figure out hoe to connect to the internet via a PPPoE DSL connection. I’ve not seen one of those before but it works. I’ve even iChatted back home with no problems.
We thought that was going to be the end of the day, just relaxing and trying to stay awake, but instead we headed out to get contact lens for Irene (no prescription required in these parts.) As we walked around we passed something that really impressed me. Only in Taipei would they have a family waterpark/sewage treatment plant. How brilliant is that!