July 2nd - Fun Taiwan (Discovery Channel)

We made our way to Taipei for the Fun Taiwan premier!

Josie on the stageJevin on stage

Josie signing her CHINESE name in the guest book.
In the premier, Nadia (host on left) introduced locals of a mountain who would volunteer to carry tea up the mountain to the tourists who were climbing it just to be hospitable to the tourists. When the Nadia and Janet arrived on Stage after the premier, they also brought herbal tea and served it to the guests.
Another part of the premier showed a cotton candy guy. Now there is not much of anything special about someone who can spin cotton candy, but this guy has his own twist on things.... He walks away from the machine as he spins it creating these long feathery strings of cotton candy. They had him at the premier and he let anyone and everyone spin their own cotton candy his way.


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After, Discovery Channel provided a tour of the area where the famous Taiwanese movie "Monga" took place. For the first half, host Nadia walked with us. For the second half, host Janet walked with us. Both times Josie became both hosts new BFF! It was so cute.
This is a tea house that is over 100 years old. It is no longer in service but they did use it for the movie.




The costumes for the movie...


This kind of brick was common when the Japanese occupied Taiwan. Apparently these bricks were helpful in that they were a natural color and they did not reflect the light so they were safer in air raids as the bombers could not locate these buildings as easily. (I LOVE ENGLISH TOURS!)
This guy is Jack. He is the Discovery Channel PR guy. He was sooooooo very helpful... and Jevin just loved him. If the hosts were Josie's BFF's, then Jack was Jevin's BFF!

Too cool!

Josie's point of view to follow in the next post!

At the end of the tour we had another opportunity to take pictures with the hosts.



Both hosts were very personable and very normal. It was really nice to meet them.

Josie's in the paper!!!!!

We went to Taipei on Friday to see the premier of Discovery Channel's Fun Taiwan (S11).
Jason entered a contest and they called us back. We were thrilled.

In English:
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or go here http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1307681&lang=eng_news

In Chinese:
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or go here http://www.cdnnews.com.tw/20100703/news/ysyl/733400002010070217453656.htm

Finally Some Pictures

Play Day

We had glorious weather on Saturday morning (followed by some pretty loud thunderstorms in the evening). Daddy was feeling a little sick, so we decided to give him a few extra minutes of sleep by going to the park.

"Look, Mommy! I can slide down it!....... Ow... My bum hurts."

I hate to say this, but this is so typically Taiwan.
They have the budget to make nice playgrounds, but no repair budget. They simply put tape over the affected area.... like that will stop any kid. I had to tell Josie not to go there twice.

May 8th - Mother's Day Show Part 1

Josie's school had a Mother's Day Show. I got some pictures but I mostly took videos with my camera. You'll have to wait until I get Jason's photos for the best pictures. This will just be a teaser...

A day out - April 30th

We were looking for something to do on Saturday morning and found a Children's Museum in Taichung. It had indoor areas as well as playgrounds outside.
The kids quite enjoyed themselves.

April 13 - Dinner

Josie posing. Jason writing postcards. Jevin trying to look like daddy.

Macau Day 4 - April 5

Homeward bound!

Macau Day 3 - April 4

Our third day was Easter Sunday. Jason brought a kinder surprise egg decorating kit with him. I mean... the Easter bunny left it in the room the night before and Josie and Jevin found it on Easter morning. The hotel offered boiled eggs in their breakfast buffet so we were able to decorate some eggs at breakfast time.

Mr. Scream-A-Lot and I stayed back after breakfast while the rest of the gang went to church. Jevin and I found the hotel's playground and tennis courts. We were given a tennis ball and in the contained court, we threw the ball around for a bit.





In the afternoon we made our way back to the Venetian and this time we had a gondola ride.


After, we went to see a Cirque Du Soleil production called Zaia. It was awesome. There were so many things going on at all times, that even Jevin was entertained for the whole 90 minutes.