Hiking pics

It's the long Dragonboat Festival weekend! And stinking hot! Yesterday we went to Dakeng and Shinshe for hiking. It has just finished raining so it was pretty clear and there were lots of butterflies and bugs around which seemed to have just hatched. Here's a few photos. From my new camera! Ahhh, new toys....







We went for supper at this mountain top restaurant in Shinshe and got to watch the sunset in it's opening act.

A Gloomy Day in Taichung

It's full on rainy season now and today was one of the first pauses in the downfall. Olivier and I went out and walked around for about 3 hours. I played with my new camera a lot. Here's a few shots. We walked around one of the many canals downtown, took some pretty pictures of balloons and pinwheels and saw some scary razor wire.

A swank dinner and a new Camera

Yes, I have finally got on my lazy arse, bit the bullet and bought a new camera! It's another Canon, just like my old one. I kept looking at cameras and thinking, "oh, this one's not as ice as my old one, sniff."

On Thursday, Bih Hua took a bunch of us out to supper at a fancy French restaurant on the 46th floor of a building downtown. Here's me trying to be artsy with my new toy.

I am a whiny bitch.

Oh dear, my poor neglected blog. Today is June 1st and I'm looking at the 3 wee little posts I did for May, and they were all Utube thingys. For shame. Although those Codco sketches rock - if anyone knows where I get find more, let me know!

What can I say? Facebook and work have eaten my life. I love Taiwan, but at the moment I am burnt the frig out. I haven't been home for about a year and half and I cannot, cannot wait to see everyone. I can't wait for the long summer nights and fresh air and Canadian beer! I had these constant fantasies of Cadbury's Cream Eggs for a while and was cursing myself for not bribing people at home to send me some or at least put some in the freezer for me. I have been making lists of things to buy, people to see, places to go, things to eat, music to absorb, movies to watch (Trailer Park Boys will be one of the first) and good haircuts and Shoppers Drug Mart and MooMoo's Ice Cream. Yes, I am excited about going to Shoppers Drug Mart. I'm not ashamed!

On to more complaining; last year, it rained for 3 weeks straight. This year, the rainy season has been replaced with this kind of thick, stagnant, humidity soup that just hangs everywhere and makes your feel like your are coated with a thin layer of hot syrup. It like, totally ruins your hair. The kindergarten students run around for their 20 minutes of outside play and they lose 3 pounds....wait....I should try that....

Anyhoo, it's Friday and my boyfriend is cooking me dinner and we're going to drink some imported beer from Thailand. Life is still good.

Bridget