me: "I can't wait for Apple to come out with the 3G iPhone." (disclaimer: no, this is by no way of me starting a rumor)
Jean: "What's that? huh, 3G?"
me: "It's the faster network. Right now iPhone is on AT&T's EDGE and its sloooow..."
Jean: "And EDGE is like what? how much of 3G? ... 1G? 2G? Squeegee?"
We like zoos. Even this non-stop rain all week couldn't stop us from going to the Taipei Zoo.
At only NT$60 ($2) each, it's a bargain.
I uploaded about 50 more photos of the zoo into our "Taiwan 2008" Flickr set of us strolling in the nearly-empty zoo for 6 hours. The only other people there were school kids of various schools and grade levels on their field trips. Love being tourists and going to places while the rest of the country is working :-)
We also recorded a short video (40 seconds) of a very playful Sun Bear.
Taipei has been raining all week and probably will be for the rest of the time we're here. So we've been limited to activities that are not outdoor. Shopping and eating seem to be our favorite activities now.
Here's us one morning...
Jean: "Stores aren't open yet?"Here's my brilliant wife.
Me: "I know, it's 10:30AM already, I guess they don't open til 11AM."
Jean: "I don't get it, why would they put that club security bar outside?!?!"
Me waiting about 10 seconds...
Jean: "Ah... never mind"
We're still on our 2 week vacation in Taiwan. With a little Internet connection, we've been able to upload pictures onto Flickr, check a little email, write this blog and even Twitter a few times.
People have generally been very nice to us; maybe it's because we look like tourists. Yesterday, we went up to the "mountains" to visit Taiwan National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院). It started raining like crazy. On the way there via bus, the driver noticed that we didn't have an umbrella and offered to give us one that he had on the bus (apparently riders often forget them behind).
Here is that nice bus driver:
National Palace Museum in the rain...
Unfortunately, we lost that umbrella after 4 hours inside the museum. We knew it was a bad idea to leave it in one of those bins, commonly placed outside of buildings for guests to leave their wet umbrellas in. But luckily, we found an unattended umbrella inside Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) on the way home. We waited for a good 5 minutes to make sure it really didn't belong to anyone before we took possession of it. Hopefully, no one in Taipei is mad at us :-)
