Sitting at the airport

Here I am... sitting at the airport. I just spent the weekend in Taipei with a bunch of the girls; Amy, Alyssa, Rachel, Jeni, and Jocelyn. We dragged our heavy bags from the subway station all the way to our hostel that was 3 blocks away... 3 blocks is a long ways with 50 lb bags haha. After a little planning, we went to The Palace Museum, a huge famous museum in Taipei... the biggest attraction is a jade cabbage... haha kinda hilarious. After the museum we paid 15 dollars to ride to the 89th floor of Taipei 101 (the second tallest building in the world). It was like we were looking out the window of an airplane while we were up there. We had to ride the word's fastest elevator to get to the 89th floor in less than 40 seconds. Pretty cool right? That night we visited the 'snake' market briefly (it was raining) and, to our disappointment, we didn't see that many snakes.

The next day we woke up early and left to the LDS Taipei Temple and did baptisms for the dead. The temple there is busy mostly on Saturdays, so it was fairly quiet when we went, which I liked. It was the temple workers and us girls. It was wonderful.

We went up and talked to a couple missionary that had visited us at Chi Mei Hospital to interview us for the LDS newspaper earlier that week after we did baptisms. They took us to a fancy French restuarant a few blocks away from the temple. It was pricy but well worth it!

Later we went back to the hostel and put our bunk beds together and watched 500 days of summer haha. It was a great lazy day afternoon. We had some good girl bonding time.

Now it's time to go back to Hong Kong. I never thought I'd be back so soon. I left last summer thinking I wouldn't see my family there for a long long time. No way would I be able to afford going two summer's in a row! But I'm glad the study abroad was so close to HK... it made it easy for me to book a cheap flight to HK from Taiwan.

So there's the update. From Taiwan to Hong Kong ... i'm in the inbetween time, at the airport. And I found out wi-fi is the happiest thing when bored at an airport. Wi-fi plus skype and facebook... and gmail... and blogger.