Friday, August 29, 2008

The End of the Quest

This Saturday our branch went on a temple trip.  I started the same as any other, we met at the church, the bus was late.  But we stopped at a rest area and I found something amazing. Fancy Land.  When I first saw the sign I didn't know what to expect, but it defiantly not what we found.  It turned out to be a statue park full of dinosaurs.  What?!  Yeah, thats what I said, dinosaurs.  I guess that Fancy land was probably intended to be Fantasy Land, but of course that's what happens when you let spell check be your translator.  But fancy or not Shannon and I had fun with it.  

After the temple Lish, Karen and I went to meet up with one of Lish's old teacher friends. We walked around downtown Taipei for awhile and then headed toward Taipei 101 to met up with the rest of the teachers.  But I don't know what's wrong with me, when ever we go on the Metro I always put the tokens on my eyes, sadly this is not the first picture of me doing this. Even though I just know that there has to be a billon different kinds of bacteria, and crap all over those things, pink eye or no pink eye, I probably do it again. We walked to the from the Metro Station to Taipei 101 on the way we saw a rabbit.  It was Karen's Birthday that day before, and since the rabbit is her Zodiac sign, we stopped and took a picture.
And then of course there was Twilight at the end of this lovely day.  Page One has to be the most amazing bookstores I have been to ever. That could be an overstatement but at the moment when I lifted "Breaking Dawn" over my head and and spun around singing the Hallelujah chorus, it wasn't. Plus it was on sale.  We went to eat quick dinner at the food court, but like all temple trips it was over too soon, and had to get take out so we could catch the bus.  But in similitude to the beginning of the trip, the bus was late and we just ended up waiting around anyway. This quick trip has made me excited for the rest of my travels here in Taiwan. There is still so much to see and to do, I can't wait to get started again.

The Floating Market

On our first day in Thailand we woke up at 5:30 and went to the famous floating Morning Market neat Bangkok.

Bangkok: Getting there

There was so much to our Thailand Trip that I even have a separate slide show for getting there.

Alishan

After Kinding we went to Alishan. It was one of my favorite parts of the trip. I can't wait to go back again.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

The After Math

After all the loveliness of Green Island, Sara and I were in a accident. That was the end of Green Island, and since I didn't feel up to much after that, this includes Kinding as well, at least my version.

Slide Shows Promised

I know that these are a long time coming but I finally got them to work!

This is after Graduation and our travels on Green Island

This first picture is me doctoring Steve after he cut his finger being manly bring heavy suitcases down stairs. He almost passed out. *Sad*

Monday, August 25, 2008

MK kid of the day: Candice





Since I have over 30 kindergardeners now  that I'm over, I though it might be a good idea to introduce them to you. 
Today was Candice's Birthday. She is(I'm guessing) 3 now. So so so cute.  She sounds like a little mouse, and even though you know that she is trying, knows no English.  But she sure dose know how to pose for a picture.