Spectating

Watching BB make soap bubbles at the sink (while washing dishes).

Sleeping

Leading

Most evenings as we're getting ready to say the rosary, the question of who's going to lead comes up. Sometimes M or M2 chime in with "I want to lead!" and not to be outdone X started piping up with "I want to [leave]!" I'm tempted to ask him, "Where are you going?" :)

The Modern Toilet... Restaurant

Praying Mantis

Spotted "pregnant" praying mantis on the house! Excited to egg-sac hunt once all the leaves on the plants are gone.

Uncle Sam's Symphony

All patriotic music this year (Young People's Concert) -- and excellent seats on the floor.

Our Lady of the Rosary

Back to Taipei

Heading back to Taipei, they stopped at a rather large soy operation that made tofu, tofu skins, and soy milk; having some of their soy skin as a snack; and a cockatoo that someone raised from an egg, nine years.

Creations

By M2.

On the Road

Staying the night at a sugar refinery converted to Japanese style hotel (tatami mat flooring); holding a puppy at a roadside fruit stand, where they bought some ready-to-eat (i.e. rotten smelling but tasty) durian.

Eight Immortals

Stopping for lunch at B&B (you should have seen the breakfast spread at the hotel!); beachside somewhere en route (or coming from?) Eight Immortals Cave, the waves were super big because of passing typhoon; and looking forward to enjoying fresh sugar cane juice.

Tourists

G and AhPoh begin a week-long tour of scenic eastern Taiwan with Shiao YeePoh (above, at the train station en route to Hualien). 

Art Class II

G needed a second day in the studio to finish her tree watercolor. (Above, with San YeePoh and AhPoh.) In reading her daily journals, it seems a bit of a revelation for her to use so many different colors, not just brown, on the trunk.

Chatting with some fellow students.