The lobster was moving its legs while being cooked but I’m pretty sure it’s just muscle/joint reflex stuff going on there. Pumpkin soup is sooo yummy.

The first picture is of street food! Rice noodle bowl. Also, they have Costco in Taiwan. The last picture is of this huge flat bread packaged like money. Yum!

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The ceiling was reeeeally high. Soooo pretty. This is the The Cathedral of St. Mary of Assumption

This was the reception on the 15th floor of the Clift Hotel.

View to the outside. Open bar!

Rebecca and her little girl. Kids meeting kids is sooo cute.

Corey being Corey, squeezing us together.

Kyra is like….wth?

Outside city-lights.

It was raining a couple days before so there is still some snow up in the mountains.

Look at those dark clouds…

Shadow picture!

At this time, Taiwan hadn’t gotten WoW yet, so they didn’t really know how to play it. I was actually able to sign onto my US account from there too. Epeeeen. And I got to embarrass the guys there by teaching them how to play. kekekeke.

On the way, I saw a real life starcraft! I suppose this would be…..terran. Must be a new model. StarCraft 3 secretz right here guys.

During the time I was there, I mostly spent time with my little cousin. He is so smart and a good thinker! He was talking to me about pokemon during an early lunch we had (yummy Dim Sum), and he was naming Pokemon that I had never heard of. He said something like “I wish I had Magic Star” and I was like “….what…?” I thought maybe I was out of it, but I’ve been playing the latest Pokemon Pearl for awhile and I’m on my way to victory road…

Later on, I found out why I seemed so out of it. Here is a look at some of his cards:

Insect Arma? Positive Charge Mouse? Thousand year old Tail? Accent Dragon? Hooligan Crab? Shark Beast? Seafish?

And weird stats, and numbers at the bottom. No original artist name… This is a fake! And a very bad one because it doesn’t even try to be real. No wonder my cousin was giving me all these weird names. I told my aunt, wondering if she knew she spent money on fakes, and she said she did. Well, makes sense then.

My cousin did really well on his Chinese school test, so his dad rewarded him with a Tamiya model!! And I ended up making it! ^_^. My cousin helped me though, handed me parts. It was generally a little too hard for him anyway, tons of small screws that he would have gotten lost, and wires that could be easily broken. He put the battery in the case while the wires weren’t connected and handed it to me. I was like “……oookay…let’s take the battery out for now alright??”

I’ve never actually made a model like this with a motor and wires. It’s reeeally fun! This particular model is special because it avoids obstacles like a wall. The head sways side to side and when it hits something, the body automatically turns as the head waves in the opposite direction.