It's early morning here in Taipei, and Mom and I are up and getting ready to go get some breakfast. My class starts this morning, and I am looking forward to meeting the students and getting going on that. Mom is taking a City Tour this morning, going to the National Palace Museum (very briefly -- sort of like a Papaw visit to the Smithsonian), and to a Buddhist temple, and to the Martyr's Shrine, and one or two other places. Who knows where she'll adventure in the afternoon!
Last night, we asked at the desk for a recommendation for dinner, and they suggested a restaurant called Yokohama, which, despite the name, is Taiwanese style food. "You go down to the Family Mart, and go into the little lane next to it, and walk until you see these Chinese characters on the sign, because the sign isn't in English." Well, we did find it, and ended up having some excellent fried rice, stir-fried noodles and pork, some spicy eggplant dish (which the waitress insisted on -- we didn't realize that we were ordering to share, and she felt that we needed a vegetable, and so that's what we ended up with), and some sort of cold pea soup. More than enough food for both, and very good, in a place that was down in an alley and filled with local folks (so we knew it would be good), and the cost was about $15 US total (including a gigantic bottle of Taiwan Beer -- I had forgotten that they tend to bring the big bottles to dinner tables).
We turned in early (around 10pm), and were up early, and now it is time to start the day! I told Mom that she needs to ask the tour guide today to get some pictures of HER in Taiwan, not just letting her take pictures of Taiwan, so we'll see how well she follows through on that.
We're having a great time, and will check in later today.
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