Internet Down

Well the internet was down for most of the day, so Johan and Nikki and I decided to run some errands.  We went to the Carrefour and bought some groceries.  I bought some Golden Bean soymilk which is really delicious (tastes mostly like regular soymilk and it's only a little sweet).  I also bought some Lays chips.  The chip flavours are Seaweed Sushi and Mala Spicy (hotpot flavoured).  I haven't opened them yet but looking forward to broadening my chip flavour horizon.

Next we went to Jhong Li to find some pet shops because Johan wanted to buy something for someone's cat.  In one of the pet stores we went into there was a little dog and 2 cute cats roaming free.  We must have visited with them for a good 15-20 min :)

After the visiting, we stopped by a bubble tea place for some refreshing Oolong green tea bubble tea, and I picked up a Gi Pai (fried and bbq'd breaded chicken cultlet).  This one had a sweet sesame glaze on top of it.  It was probably the best chicken pie I've had so far on the trip.  I even ordered it myself "Yi ge Gi Pai xia xia" :)

We also went to the "me-life" steak house to grab some steak to go.  The taiwanese steak here isn't really like north american.  Tastes quite different.  It was okay but I think I'll probably stick to asian food for the most part while I'm here because their steak can't compete with the Alberta AAA Beef.

When we arrived home, Jeff our neighbour invited us out onto the street curb for some beers.  We grabbed our usual green and red kiddie chairs and put them on the curb and cracked open some Taiwan Beer.  By this time it was around 9pm so it was dark out, and much cooler.  Ali and Nikki also joined us and Ali let me ride his scooter around the area! OMG so much fun :D hehe.  and our area is perfect to practice on because there's absolutely no traffic.  I was only a little nervous when I first sat down on it because I hadn't ridden a scooter since the last time I was in Taiwan, but it all came back to me within about 10 seconds :D  Ali said I could try riding it anytime so I think I'll take him up on that offer more often.  I said I'd pay for gas but he said it's so cheap I shouldn't worry.  He said he drives about 40km round-trip to work every day, and in a whole week, his gas bill is only $3.

Now you may be thinking "hey!  he was just drinking beers and then rode a scooter!"  Well no cause I cracked open the beer and had maybe 2 sips and that's when Ali said I could ride the scooter so I put the beer down and did my riding first before drinking any more :P  I'm responsible!

And that's it!  We came back inside and went to bed :P