With the arrival of December the weather has definitely changed. For the past few days I've been wearing a windbreaker for the commute into work and we haven't been turning on the a/c in the morning. I haven't had to resort to socks yet but that may be coming soon. The problem with the a/c is that the pollution levels have risen dramatically and the air in the apartment needs conditioning but not cooling. There's an option for that on the remote. Too bad I can't read Chinese.

Zach and Cierra are still with us, but just for a few more days. I'm putting a sampling of photos from our trip to Hualien after I finish these thoughts but time is marching along and I may not do much of a recap. I'm sorry for that because this blog is my journal - I'd like to be able to look back at what I did while I was in Taiwan - but having house guests really eats into your free time so it's hard to keep up with posting.

We've been out to eat nearly every dinner, walked and wandered all around this area and taken the subway to areas too far to walk to. It's pretty exhausting! I still have Christmas shopping to think about, not to mention having to go to work every day. Finding time to blog has been lower on the priority list than getting some sleep. But the kids went to Taipei for an overnight trip - and had a great time with our friend Simona and her mother - so I'm sitting down to hopefully catch up a bit.

Here are some pix from the east coast.

We biked around Liyu Lake and only got rained on a little bit.

We found a weaving studio!

Cierra and Zach at the beach.

Overlooking the coastline.

 

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We went back to Sanxiantai, the Eight Dragon Bridge where we went we Josh in October.

Sunrise from our hotel room.