Finally, the Sun appears
This weekend was very nice. The weather turned gorgeous after a horrible week of rain and misery. Saturday I got to sleep in, which is always wonderful. I wasn’t feeling too well that morning, so the sleep really helped. Anthony took the girls to the park next door while I took a shower. I went to join them and there were three other families in the park from Ashley’s school – so we had a great time hanging out with all of them and Anthony got to meet some of the moms and dads. The park that is next to our house has expanded by quite a bit since we’ve been gone. They tore down this square block of storage units and cleaned it out and planted trees and laid brick and turned what was a small park into a bigger park with a large area which is perfect for riding bikes! The girls had a wonderful time running around, riding bike and playing with all the other kids. It was chilly out, but that didn’t matter. We then went to lunch with 2 of the families at this little dumplings and noodle place. It was really nice for us and for the girls. We really enjoyed it. After naps, we went to Mitsukoshi to let the girls run around inside for a bit. They had fun and Ashley even tried on a great dress which I just had to buy her, she’ll be wearing it for her birthday in a few months, so you’ll see pictures of it – Anthony called it an “80’s goth prom dress” – I know you really want to see it now, but you’ll just have to wait! Saturday night, Ashley had trouble getting to bed, while we tried to watch a movie “Bowling for Columbine” – we didn’t get too far in the movie since Ashley kept coming out with excuses – I’m hungry, I’m thirsty, I had a bad dream, etc… At 10:30, she was finally asleep and we watched “The Daily Show International Edition with Jon Stewart” and “The Cumars at No. 42”, both were fun to watch.
We awoke at 3 in the morning to the bouncing and swaying of our apartment – it was an earthquake – three of them actually in a row. The main was one a 5.9, but it was only a 3 here in Taipei with the others being 2. Not fun in the middle of the night, but we managed. It took me a while to get back to sleep – I turned the TV on and flipped around for a bit. Anthony said he was fine with it, but he did have some dreams involving waves.
Today was bright and sunny. We headed out, called Angie and went over to her place to visit with them. Angie had her baby, Alanna, last week, so we got to see the new baby (SHE IS SO CUTE!!!!) and visit with Angie and Joseph. Liz and Joseph had a blast running around playing. They seemed to remember each other and gave each other lots of hugs and kisses. It was very cute. We ordered Dominos Pizza for lunch and I have determined that Dominos is MUCH better than Pizza Hut here.
We did some shopping the rest of the afternoon, going to an electronics store so Anthony could pick up a new chassis for the new computer he’s going to build. This one seems to be running a bit slow, so he’s going to be upgrading some things. We then went to IKEA, spent lots of money on stuff we needed for around the apartment and took the girls up to ToysRUs to run around and have some fun. After that, it was time to eat and Anthony surprised me with dinner at THE OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE. For anyone who knows me, you know that one of the places I have always said “If only they had one in Taiwan!” is The Outback and guess what? Now they do!!!! Anthony had heard about it opening and not told me, just said that we needed to go to IKEA this weekend and I wondered why, because they just opened the restaurant in between IKEA and AsiaWorld. We stuffed ourselves – it was SOOO good and happy hour, so we even enjoyed strawberry margaritas. We had fried shrooms’, salad, bread, ribs, Victoria’s fillet and brownie dessert. I was in heaven. MMMM. It is dangerous now that they have opened an Outback, just dangerous.
I’ve been a bit down lately, just being back here, away from family, missing ‘home’ and getting frustrated with being sick and miserable weather. I really needed this weekend to recuperate a bit, hang out with friends, do some shopping, see Angie, Alanna and Joseph, have fun with Anthony and the girls and eat at one of my FAVORITE restaurants! It was a good weekend.
We awoke at 3 in the morning to the bouncing and swaying of our apartment – it was an earthquake – three of them actually in a row. The main was one a 5.9, but it was only a 3 here in Taipei with the others being 2. Not fun in the middle of the night, but we managed. It took me a while to get back to sleep – I turned the TV on and flipped around for a bit. Anthony said he was fine with it, but he did have some dreams involving waves.
Today was bright and sunny. We headed out, called Angie and went over to her place to visit with them. Angie had her baby, Alanna, last week, so we got to see the new baby (SHE IS SO CUTE!!!!) and visit with Angie and Joseph. Liz and Joseph had a blast running around playing. They seemed to remember each other and gave each other lots of hugs and kisses. It was very cute. We ordered Dominos Pizza for lunch and I have determined that Dominos is MUCH better than Pizza Hut here.
We did some shopping the rest of the afternoon, going to an electronics store so Anthony could pick up a new chassis for the new computer he’s going to build. This one seems to be running a bit slow, so he’s going to be upgrading some things. We then went to IKEA, spent lots of money on stuff we needed for around the apartment and took the girls up to ToysRUs to run around and have some fun. After that, it was time to eat and Anthony surprised me with dinner at THE OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE. For anyone who knows me, you know that one of the places I have always said “If only they had one in Taiwan!” is The Outback and guess what? Now they do!!!! Anthony had heard about it opening and not told me, just said that we needed to go to IKEA this weekend and I wondered why, because they just opened the restaurant in between IKEA and AsiaWorld. We stuffed ourselves – it was SOOO good and happy hour, so we even enjoyed strawberry margaritas. We had fried shrooms’, salad, bread, ribs, Victoria’s fillet and brownie dessert. I was in heaven. MMMM. It is dangerous now that they have opened an Outback, just dangerous.
I’ve been a bit down lately, just being back here, away from family, missing ‘home’ and getting frustrated with being sick and miserable weather. I really needed this weekend to recuperate a bit, hang out with friends, do some shopping, see Angie, Alanna and Joseph, have fun with Anthony and the girls and eat at one of my FAVORITE restaurants! It was a good weekend.
posted by The Armstrongs at
3/06/2005
