This afternoon's shopping trip to the market included, from left to right: vegetable dumplings, cookies, apples, edamame, guava, mangoes, bananas, and roasted chicken leg. Dinner tonight was quite yummy.

One indication that we are not newbies is that I can guess what one of the notices in the elevator in our apartment building says.

This is Ghost Festival month and the residents of the apartment building are being offered the opportunity to participate in the festivities at the building. They can purchase bricks of paper money to be burned in the braziers on the sidewalk out front and they can set up tables in front of the lobby to display their offerings of food to the spirits. As you can see from the notice, there will be an event on August 22nd from 1:00 to 2:30 in the afternoon. The date is listed as 104-8-22 because the Taiwanese start their calendar from their independence day which was 104 years ago. I have no idea what the event is that day but I'll be sure to check it out and let you know.