Friday Emily and I had dinner at our favorite Thai place. So good. We tried really hard not to talk about school but it works it's way into most conversations. We both had a long and trying week. We were so tired that we couldn't even name all the 7 continents or remember the name of the "debatable 8th." Wow.
Saturday we hopped on the scooter and went off in search of "Green Lake" which was named in one of our books as a prime touristy spot. We drove out of the city into the hills where we could smell grass and trees and not so much pollution. We stopped a few times to look at some neat temples and an interesting grave yard. At one of the temples we were able to see for a really long way and got some good pictures of the city. We followed the directions to Green Lake but it was nowhere to be found. We drove around where it was supposed to be and were so puzzled that it wasn't there. There was even a hotel called "Lakeview Hotel" and a restaurant with a big deck. Finally we saw a sign that said "No Swimming" overlooking a big grassy field. Then it hit us--THIS IS THE LAKE!!! Apparantly the lake had some "sedimentation problems" a couple of years ago so now it just looks like a big overgrown field. We assume they meant to name it "Green Grass Lake." But even though the whole lake thing didn't turn out we saw some really neat stuff and had a great time scootering around seeing new things in our city.
That night our friends had a bbq out on their roof which was a lot of fun. We got to see the mountains that surround our city that we don't usually get to see because of the smog. The mountains are pretty big and it's hard to believe that they are there because there are usually clouds covering them.
Yao Ming made an appearance to Hsinchu this weekend. He ran some workshop for kids at a gym where our friends work out so they got to see him and wish him a happy birthday:) They said that there wasn't much of a crowd even though Yao is a pretty big deal over here (no pun intended).
Well the weekend was not long enough. Here I am back at school with a bad case of the Mondays. Next weekend we will be staying in Taipei when Angela and Shaun (Emily's sister and bro-in-law) get here, and Sam gets here on Monday! Whooooooo!!!!!!
I will post pictures of our weekend soon including some really great shots of the "lake."
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Everytime you talk about the scooter I think about Dumb and Dumber...and I think about how fantastic it must be to ride around on something as brilliant as that!! So excited Sam is coming! Tell him jolly good day from me :)
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