Last night was the party. It was located at Sizihuan, one of the beaches in the city. Lee and I have biked there many times and swam at the beach a few weeks ago. It's a lovely spot for a party.

The trees outside the restaurant were decorated with lights and in bloom with delicate, sweet-smelling flowers. Very pretty.

There were many faculty babies in attendance (offspring of the faculty, not whiny adults) so we all got our fill of holding little ones. 

This is our Japanese teacher, Chika, holding Ociel, the Spanish teacher's son. Behind them is the beach and the setting sun.

The school provided a bus to take anyone who wanted a ride down to the venue, which was a nice alternative to taking a taxi. It was not without some glitches, however. Apparently big buses need a permit to drive down the access road, something that wasn't required last year, and our bus didn't have one. So the driver dropped us at the city bus terminal a few miles away and we all piled onto another bus. Then that bus dropped us off at the last stop before the access road and we walked the half mile or so to the restaurant. 

I'm not sure why the chartered bus couldn't have dropped us off where the city bus did, but we did make it in the end so it's all good. And the bus was miraculously waiting outside the restaurant when it was time to return home.

The party was very nice. There was plenty of beer, although the servers forgot to bring out the wine until the very end, so the security guards all took home a bottle. The had brought their own Taiwan whiskey to share with anyone who wanted shots of rot-gut. They certainly know how to liven up a party.

The food was very good and plentiful and everyone kicked back and relaxed. Now we just need to get through the last two weeks of school without strangling any of the middle schoolers.