Back in Taiwan

At 5:35am this morning (Wednesday) our plane pulled up to its gate at Taoyuan International Airport and Emily and I arrived back in Taiwan.

After saying goodbye to the Muffett family in Detroit on Sunday afternoon Emily and I journeyed to Los Angeles where we spent 31 hours with Emily’s best friend Genevieve and her husband Kevin in Pasadena. We had a wonderful time seeing them along with Genevieve’s mom and siblings: Penny, David, and Caroline.

The visited included Del Taco, a trip down memory lane walking around Mimeistry‘s campus where Emily lived and studied in 2005-2006, Sorbet (I had orange & passion fruit and it was incredible), The Norton Simon Museum, and steak & risotto for dinner cooked by Kevin. This isn’t mentioning all the good conversation time as well!

I do have to ramble a bit about the Norton Simon…….WOW! What a great musuem. If you are ever in Pasadena or near it go. Their Impressionist collection was huge and included all my favorites. Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, the list goes on and on. I was already fatigued when I finished that section and found out that other rooms had Caravaggio’s, De Goya’s, and more. Finally I made it into the modern section only to stumble upon a ton of Picasso’s along with a Duchamp exhibition. Sorry for the gushing but WOW! It was awesome!!!! Oh and I forgot to mention, our student id’s gave us free admission!!!!

Well anyway, we’re back at our apartment now getting acquainted with our new roommates Ken (Taiwanese) and David (French). We’ll be spending the next few days getting over the icky feeling one gets after 13 hour flights, adjusting to a 12 hour time difference between here and Michigan, taking care of odds and ends related to immigration, scooter, yada yada, and getting Emily all squared away with NTNU.

Hopefully we’ll get a chance to write a little more about the summer on here because it truly was wonderful. As you can see the layout of our blog is just a little different thanks to our friend Dennis. This new layout will allow us greater freedom as we organize and expand our site so watch for new things in the days to come.

That wraps everything up for now. Please feel free to make suggestions on things you would like us to write about, take pictures of, explain, etc. Thanks for a great summer! We miss all of you already.