Hi everyone! It’s really 8:30 am 10/4/06, but I think wordpress still thinks I’m in NY. Anyway, yesterday was a relaxing day. I had some delicious 哨兵油條 and 飯團. For lunch, which I had 2 hours after my “breakfast” we went to 兄弟飯店. We had dim sum. Then my friend and I went exploring for hard contacts solution. No one in Taipei uses hard contacts and they don’t even sell the solution at Watson’s or any pharmacy store. We went to like four optical stores before we found a place that actually sold it. I also checked out Mango at Breeze Center. It’s funny that the largest size of a coat I was trying on was a US small! Lucky for me it was my size, but I didn’t really like it. I bought cute faceplate for my phone. It’s a light blue color. We had some cold tea drinks for snack. I then had dinner with my uncle at the alley around the corner. I took him to my favorite noodle place where the owners always remember me. I’m the American! She said “I haven’t seen you in a long time!” Then she told my uncle that she remembers me because my grandma took me there. Our noodles were less than $3 total. It was fantastic. We also ordered 空心菜. The vegetables were so tasty and much better than what I can get for NY for like 4 times the price. In total, our meal of two noodles and a vegetable cost $NT 150 (which is equivalent to a whopping $4.54. Also, in Taiwan, it’s not customary to tip at these little stalls/restaurants. I LOVE IT!

Now I am up early drinking guava juice and eating tea eggs (茶葉蛋) from 7-11. I’m watching 王建民 and he just put on two Detroit Tigers on to base with 0 out. This is pretty bad considering it’s only the 2nd inning! Ahh!

GO YANKEES!