Yesterday we went shopping and I told Lee I needed to grab a couple thousand dollars to have enough. After spending NT$2,000 (New Taiwanese Dollars) we came home with three bags of groceries and a mop. It's about US $66.

I'm still getting used to the exchange rate. Everything seems so expensive - NT$50 for a dozen eggs! - when in fact most things are pretty cheap. We had dinner at a sushi restaurant, conveniently located in our apartment building, and spent $30 for the two of us. Back in CT the same dinner at Feng's Asian Cuisine would have been twice that. We may become regulars at this place.

This is the Taiwanese money. The bills come in $1000, $500 and $100. The coins are $50, $10, $5 and $1. I'm getting pretty good at picking out of my pocket the money I'm looking for.

This morning Lee found our mailbox. We'd been looking for the label that looks like the one outside our door, apartment 10-F 3. Turns out the F doesn't refer to the tower we're in but that we're on the tenth Floor. Anyway, we got our mail:

Junk mail in Mandarin is even more junky than junk mail in English, considering all I can glean from this is that somewhere in Kaohsiung someone makes pizza.