It's been raining so much in southern Taiwan that the mayor of Kaohsiung cancelled schools today, in addition to closing them early yesterday. Yesterday the city got upwards of 14 inches of rain (over 300 mm - sounds especially dramatic in metric, doesn't it?) and today has been alternately pouring and lightly raining.

We had a wonderful early walk through the park this morning and stayed relatively dry, thanks to our handy little umbrellas we bought on one of our first days in Taiwan. They have seen a lot of use in the last 5 days!

By noon we were getting pretty antsy to get moving and the rain had stopped (briefly, it turned out) so we decided to hop on our bikes and explore the bike path along the Love River.

Lee, chillaxing on the bike bath.
(Those are brick pieces of furniture, including a book and pair of glasses on the coffee table.)

 
Having the bikes opens up the whole city for exploration. I can only walk so far and taxis are great for getting you to one place but not really for exploring. There's a pretty extensive bus service and a 2-track metro (the north-south line and the east-west line) but we haven't figured out the systems yet. Eventually.