Sunday, January 19, 2003
I woke up early, ready to
go, but Chu-Wan wasn't ready yet, so I put Michelle in the stroller and headed
out in search of breakfast. I decided I was going to the Cong You Bing
place and order in Chinese; however, nothing was open. Either it was too early,
or the Cong You Bing guy doesn't work on Sunday. Either way, I was
without food prospects. I ended up eating a package of Zesty Garlic Doritos
from 7-11 in the park.
Michelle fell asleep almost immediately, so I
decided to push my luck and take her only a longer walk. We spent some time in
the park, then headed north along Xinsheng road. I eventually turned
down Renai road with nowhere in particular to go. I called Chu-Wan and
she suggested we meet somewhere. I looked up and saw a sign pointing the way to
the CKS Memorial, so I decided it was time to get my daily pictures of the
lantern construction.
Michelle and I got there first, but she was
unimpressed and slept through the whole thing. There appeared to be nothing new
on the construction.
When Chu-Wan arrived, we noticed that several news crews had
gathered in the area. We checked with them and learned that a protest was
scheduled for later that morning. We high-tailed it out as quickly as possible,
heading for the Gongkuan area so that Chu-Wan could purchase contact
lenses. We also planned to eat lunch there, but nothing was open before
11:00AM. We finally managed to get soom bread from a bakery, but nothing
else.
With nothing else to buy and nothing open we headed back
home.
 We passed a bizarrely named
place called Bunny Listens To The Music which appears to be some form of
coffee house. The name was interesting, but somehow left me flat. if it is a
coffee house, something more hip and dangerous seems in order, perhaps:
Bunny Runs With Scissors or Bunny Sleeps With The Fishes. After
I'd left, I wished I had taken pictures of their sign - I doubt I'll ever find
the place again.
We got home just in time to watch a Taiwanese puppet
program, like the ones I'd seen at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi. The shows are a
continuing serial, so I expected it to be 30 minutes long but it turned out to
be 2 hours long! All during the show they advertised the release of the DVDs,
but a search of their web page indicated that their page would be unavailable
for several more days. The program itself was very convoluted and soap-opera
like, with lots of blood and gore being splashed about. Despite being 2-hours
long, it was just one installment in a longer series.
For dinner, we
went across the street to a place called Sub Zone that used to be a Subway, but
still serves sub sandwiches. iIt wasn't bad, but they had some odd
combinations. I had a typical Italian sub, but this one included roast beef,
too.
Tomorrow we go to Hualien and Taroko National Park, and we needed
to pack, but Michelle and I fell asleep early before we got ready.
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