yar…my new computers being a bit of a dill. its kinda not working. which isnt good. im sending it back tomorrow and hopefully itll be sorted out. because once its up and running, wooha itll be beautiful.
ok, turning nerd meter down a notch. today was sally’s farewell dinner at shabu tatsu. omg, little sallys off to africa! shes doing volunteer work in tanzania (?) for a few months, so we’ll be without her sunshine for the time being. le sigh.
TAIWAN HOMECOMING DAY.07
im without my trusty notes now, so most of these recollections are hopefully jogged by my photo collection. day 7 was finishing up some requisite taipei touristing. it was shit out, but these were the kind of places dave had to see. first stop was the national palace museum, which i didnt know but had just finished renovations. four years worth…wow. and it was worth every penny. i even found this article when i got back to america. the whole museum looked alot different than the old boring version i had in my memory. this place was actually pretty nice. we made the rounds, looked at the ju ware (broken dishes…meh), the portraits (ooh), and the jade cabbage (mmm…cabbage). we romped around the adjacent “imperial” park, then went off to find foodage around shillin.
next up was the chiang-kai shek memorial, a mildly “humble” memorial for the generalissimo of taiwan. it was the same as my memory…yep, moving on. we wouldve gone onto the sun yat sen memorial, but we opted out and instead hung around the underground shopping district nearby.
at nite, we headed north to beitou to meet up with my moms side for some noshing. they picked out this restaurant parked way up in the mountains that had some ridiculously nice views of taipei. there we met up with a good portion of my moms side, along with one male cousin (surprise) and the three daughters (oldest + a set of twins…one sister was missing) of my moms oldest sister. its funny to note the twins arent much alike, and the supposed “nice” one is actually a freaky drinker. every round she’d down hers faster than everybody…it was scary. the “kids” decided to head oot and aboot afterwards for some liquoring. we ended up at a tgif…ha! whatever, as long as they bring the sauce, its all good.
* full set of taiwan06 pics on flickr.
