It's good to have friends...

Dinner for Joyce's birthday...how many years young?

Yes, that's right, friend from Champaign and Urbana did brave the 20 hour flight to spend time with us in Taiwan. They had an opportunity to see the last vestiages of the lantern display at Chiag-Kai Shek Memorial -- a beautiful display of hand painted lanterns, experience Taipei winter -- cold and damp sometimes and warm and balmy others.  We enjoyed having them here and we have been a little down all this last week with them gone.

We're not sure how helpful those English
menus were...

They got to try lots of special food from Taiwan, ride on the high speed rail, listen to aboriginal music, and shop, but we'll let you tell there story.


We took them to some of our favorite places - Sun Moon Lake. The gondola ride on Maukong.

Floral display

We also had a chance to visit the floral exhibit. It was really beautiful. I think everyone in the group enjoyed the times we spent together.

Claude and Susan