What a difference a day makes. Yesterday was hot but the humidity was awful. Today the humidity wasn't so bad but boy was it hot! Instead of killing ourselves on a hike we opted for a walk to breakfast with friends with an extended route home so we could stop at Costco. It seemed as though half of Kaohsiung had chosen that moment to also go to Costco but we found what we wanted and made it out in a reasonable amount of time. We even managed to renew our membership without too much trouble, given the lack of a common language.

This afternoon we biked down to the harbor for mango ice. There are closer places to get mango ice but the store next to the Cijin Island ferry is our favorite. It's where we were first introduced and, believe me, you will always remember your first mango ice. It's worth the hour long bike ride down there and back and you can almost convince yourself that you've burned off all the calories by the time you get home.

Before...

and after.