An evening with friends

When we thought about moving to Taiwan I wondered what they did for fun. It never occurred to me that we would go bowling while in Taiwan. On this past Sunday our friend, Adrian, brought us and a few students from Yingpei to go bowling. They even had shoes that fit although finding a light weight ball with finger holes big enough for our fingers was harder to find. We had a blast!

 After bowling we decided to go shopping. We went to a place called "Taiwan Times Village". It is a huge building that is filled with many smaller stores and restaurants. Many are themed and there is also an entertainment area where they preformed a Christmas skit. There were lots of workers dressed up in costume and many historical things to see.

 This was a wooden statue or so we thought. Then he moved! He was very good. I have seen these kind of performers before but they were always silver or gold, never wood.

 Noah wanted to give him some money so he dumped all of the change from his pocket into the box. The guy pretended to want more so Noah pulled his pockets inside out to show him there was no more.

 This statue is supposed to be of an aboriginal witch. She sure is scary.

 An interesting piece of artwork hanging in one of the stores.

 Oh no!! Noah found a candy shack... Gummy bears for him.

Justin and Adrian posing with a god. Justin wishes he could grow facial hair like that!

 Later they preformed a Christmas skit. It was very interesting and we enjoyed it. You can see the video on youtube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDG1KvUu8tQ&feature=g-upl

 They even brought out the big guns... Winnie the Pooh!

 After the shopping and the Christmas skit we decided to eat dinner. The food was so good that we took pictures of it for you.  Great good and good friends, that is how we are going to make it through this year.

 Good times!

 Spicy fried pork chop with rice, soup and a steamed egg.

 Fried pork wrapped around cheese bacon and veggies, rice and a steamed egg

 Fried pork chop with rice and curry

 Hot fruit tea with orange custard yogurt for me.

 Sesame ice-cream and hot milk tea for Justin.

 Fruit tea with an orange custard yogurt for Noah.

 The restaurants really wanted everyone to fill out a survey on your experience. Of course it was in Chinese which we still can't read so Adrian filled his out and we copied it!