Taipei zoo
Hey everyone! We haven’t been up to that much lately, but we did have an amazing time at Yilan beach/market a couple weeks ago. We traveled with one of my friend’s back home and her local Taiwanese friend. It was a cloudy day, so I didn’t take pictures of the beach this time but, there was some really great waves and I had my first attempt at surfing. The night market in Yilan was really good, and I tried ’stinky to-fu’ for the first time… it’s a Taiwanese delicacy and basically smells like stinky feet and you can smell it a mile away. We also went to the Taipei zoo which was amazing! for 60 NTD or $2 CDN you can spend your entire day at the zoo, and it’s really big… we didn’t even get a chance to see everything our first trip there. There was also a recent holiday here in Taiwan, called ‘Dragon boat festival’. I didn’t get a chance to see any dragon boat races, but there was a free Opera in a park near our place with around 5000+ people in attendance. It was really good and was performed by Taiwan’s most famous Opera group. I have posted new pictures of Yilan market, the Taipei zoo and the Opera HERE, along with comments on the pictures. If I ever get a chance to upload some videos, I will post them here as well.

June 12th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Hi Alan & Natalie,
We love your pictures. I get the feeling you both are enjoying your stay. All seems to be going well for you both. Danny & Beth helped us on Monday night cut down 5 trees at home. We are sure the trees were 60 feet high. Your Dad was so impressive with his power saw. Philip & I never saw 2 people who work so hard in all our life !!!! We started at 6pm & finished at 10pm.Danny limed all the trees with his power saw and Philip ,Beth & I carried all the brush away. Philip said Danny & Beth “dam” near killed him(HA! HA!) We don’t know how to ever repay them!! They are such wonderful people. On Monday night it must have beem 30degrees. It was the hottest day so far this season.
Tommy is in Montreal for training with Investors Group for 10 days. I spoke to Jessica last night . She seems a little lonley. I sure she will miss Tommy.Kirby will keep her company.
We got your postcard yesterday. We were quite happy to hear from you both. Our mailing address is: P.O. Box 1117, Lunenburg,NS BOJ 2CO. We look forward to hearing from you both soon.
Take care & be safe
Philip & Brenda