We finally found our favorite drinks!

After almost 2 months of searching, Aaron and I have finally found Amaretto and Relax Riesling.  Success!  We are ready for the New Year...

 

Funny Tidbits: 

1. The other day we had a waitress named 'Water'. I swear. LOL

2. The name of the grocery store down the street is 'Wellcome'.  ;-)

Traditional Chinese Shirts

We bought traditional Chinese shirts. How cool are we?!

Our first Christmas together...in Taiwan!

Even though we weren't with our families for Christmas (and missed them so much!), we had a wonderful holiday together. Here are a few pictures of our Christmas:

This was the temperature on Christmas day-- too warm!

Here is a video of Santa Clauses marching around the park across from our apartment.  I really don't know what they were doing...  :)

Our Christmas Dinner!  mmm...mmm...the ham and homemade stuffing we made were delicious! We were pretty proud of ourselves...  :)

Check out Cedric on Christmas Day--HAHA! he looks so happy!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Our apartment in Tainan

Here is our apartment!

Christmas cookies

Baking ingredients are hard to find in Taiwan, but I found enough to make these cookies for Aaron's colleagues. Mmmm...mmmm!





I see that one is missing...I wonder who ate that?! ;-)


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Chihkan Tower

Here are a few pictures from our visit to the Chihkan Tower:

Teppanyaki

I had lunch at a Teppanyaki restaurant today. It was delicious! Here is a collage of the pictures I took there.

I was so proud of myself that I was able to tell the chef that the food was delicious (all in CHINESE!).  But then, I had to have his response translated...haha! :-)  He asked if I learned anything from his cooking and I said (in CHINESE!!!) 'You are the good teacher and I am the student."  Go me!

Christmas has arrived!

On a cold and rainy day in Taiwan, Christmas packages arrived!





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Asian Fondue?

This is so yummy!  It's called Hot Pot...usually very spicy, but mine was made with tea!  You put all the fresh vegetables in the boiling put of tea. The white 'paste' is fish paste, and you scoop out pieces and drop it in the hot pot.  You can also crack the egg into the hot pot or just put the entire egg in and make it a boiled egg.

View from our apartment

Here are a few reasons we love the location of our apartment:
1. Under the ESLite bookstore is a Starbucks.
2. Across the street is a park.
3. A little past the park is the night market that takes place M,T, & F.

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It's beginning to look like Christmas

Our first Christmas tree together!


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I channeled my inner Gaga and just danced!

Here is the description for the meditation session I went to on Thursday:  AFRICAN DANCE - a meditation which combines African rhythms and other indigenous music.


I thought this sounded really cool and since I've always wanted to go to a mediation session and try yoga, I decided to go.  I make my trek across town and wait in a room with 5 Taiwanese women who only spoke Chinese.  Luckily the leader was a German man and I was able to ask him questions.  He started 'class' right away and I didn't feel right if I just bailed right after he said we would be dancing while he played this African drum.  So, everyone got in their own space in the room and they started dancing, spinning, humming, yelling, jumping, and moving around as though some strange spirit had taken over their bodies.  WTF?! What was I supposed to do? I'd already paid my money... I also stick out like a sore thumb...there was no sneaking out now... so I channeled my inner Gaga and just danced!  HAHA

The front of the room was a giant mirror, so I could watch myself dance--well I don't know if what I was doing can actually be qualified as dancing. In my head I was laughing at myself and I wouldn't have been surprised if my husband or brother jumped out and said I had just been punked.   The craziest lady was of course behind me and 'danced' into me a few times! She was screaming and making all sorts of noises.
This lasted for an hour!  Yes, I watched myself dance around like a looney person for an entire hour (every 15min we took a break to meditate)!  I guess I was wrong to assume that they would show us some African dance moves. 

After the session, we sat in a circle and shared our experience.  The first woman who spoke asked if anyone had ever hurt themselves in one of these sessions because she felt like throwing herself out of the window.  WTF?!  I definitely did not feel like doing that...

I will say, that it was an interesting experience to let loose and not worry about what others thought.  I knew that I would never see these people again and I just used my inner built up energy and just moved my body to the rhythm.  That was the whole point of the session, right?

Oh man, put this on a list of things I never thought I would have done...