Man Man Zou

Well we did end up going cruisin’ today. We dragged our butts out of bed at 9:30 (!) and hit the road towards Sun Moon Lake, to visit the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village.
I’ve been meaning to go to the FACV for a quite some time, but it’s a tiring 2 hour scooter ride away. Yesterday, [...]

Our stinkin’ one week unpaid holiday is fast approaching and I’m counting down the days. We bought tickets for the Philippines, but since this is pretty much the only holiday in Taiwan, tickets were twice the price and we couldn’t even get a return ticket for the last day of Chinese New Year, so we [...]

Today we had the biggest earthquake I’ve ever felt. It was only a 5.4, but it was comparatively closer to home than all the others. It happened at 3:47pm- towards the end of the day when all of my kids were riled up (not that they’re ever calm!), but the kids handled the situation well.
We [...]

We went to Tainan last weekend in search of the very rare Black-Faced Spoonbill. There are only about 1000 of them left in the world and they are really cool looking. When I read that they come to Tainan county every year for the month of January I started planning the trip.
It was surprisingly very [...]