Frankie's Dog

 We've never been to the night market when its all closed up

 Just some pics as we navigate the city streets : ) It would be sooo much easier to navigate if our map was in Chinese pidgin instead of Chinese characters : ( but alas I got us everywhere we wanted to go and we only asked directions twice : ) (can you see me taking the pic in the corner mirror?)

 Taiwan fire truck, not to special but Shanae wanted this pic for Conman

 Our first trip to Frankies' Dog - we may make it a monthly visit

 Shanae LOVED that they had jerseys to cover the chairs. Not Liked I mean LOVED :)

 The menu was in English and Chinese ! : ) Kaley had the italian and Shanae had the Mexican. It was about 5 USD each for a dog, fries and a drink : )
S- The best-est hot dog I ever did eat :)

 Shanae with Wilson : )

 Pictures from town
S- Look it's a blue phone.. isn't it cool? I felt like I was using one of those phones from the 1950's where you had to ask an operator to connect you, so fun!

S-I love this picture, because I know he does love me and you, and that that is true even in Chinese

 Sometimes we cross with others... just so we have less of a chance of getting hit : )

 Shanae bought a really cool suvinear shirt here. And I know your probably tired of street pictures but I'm still trippin' out on how crowded/crazy they are so hopefully your not to tired of them : )
S- I love shopping soo much! But because I want to take some money home with me Kaley and I are going to start keeping track of what money we earn and how much we can spend because like Kaley once said the money feels like Monopoly money, it feels so cool that people give me yummy things for one of my weird coins or my funny looking dollar :) But in the end how rich Shanae is is all depending on how many weird dollars she didn't spend :)

 Orchids! There like 10 dollars each so I didn't get one : ( but they are so pretty and everywhere

 Famous dumpling and bowtza place. Yes, I am going to learn how to make these and make them for you because they are soooooo good : )

 Its like the Vietnamese seemed roll we had in Hawaii only sooo much better: )

 So Yuling said we were not allowed to have pets because we are only here six months... that being said a gold fish is hardly a pet and they come in these cute little bottles for under two dollars!! Shanae wouldn't let me get one. My reasoning behind getting a gold fish? 1- we could give it a Chinese name! 2- It could teach us Chinese! (Shanae was more than skeptical of this one)...yep, we didn't end up getting the gold fish : (

 A.mart is the biggest grocery store in town. Usually if you want something you just go to one of a hundred little stores go buy it (like a meat market for meat, a bakery for breads, the morning market for veggis ect) but this place is almost (ok its a bit of a stretch) like a Walmart : ) We like to get our bread here. Can you see the eggs Shane is carrying home for us? Next time we will bring more than one bag : )

Shanaes new bow. While walking in the market the thought crossed my mind "well we cant all look like 'hello kitty'... or maybe we can" : ) Asians are super trendy. Shopping is cheep so it seems that everyone has a billion super cute clothes. Another thought that crossed my mind, while passing some super cute Asian boys, "that boy has Justin Biebers hair cut and it looks better on him than on Bieber!" : )

Green Thumb

 Shanae told me "you know your getting older when you want to weed the plants on your only day off work" : ) lol though she complained a little Shanae was a trouper about weeding and rearranging our porch plants :) They look sooo much better. Our hands will never be the same : ( but I think we'll have some roses blooming in a couple of months : )

Mr. Cow and Egg Mama

 This months theme is eggs and milk. So of course we had to make butter : ) Thanks mom for the fabulous idea : ) I asked my boss for half and half cause it would become butter faster than regular milk but she couldn't find any so instead bought whipping cream : )

After the kids had each had a chance to shake it our cream had almost gone flat : ) I told the kids that this was like whipped butter and that it would taste different from butter because we weren't adding sugar or salt like we'd seen them do on our 'how butter is made' video the day before

 I brought a cow puppet to class and called him Mr.Cow. The kids loved him and have already been asking when he will come back : ) I was going to speak for the puppet and all that jazz but I started doing it and then I thought up a lie and I thought it up fast : ) I told the kids Mr. Cow was shy and that he liked to tell me things in my ear instead of talking to the class. So they would have to be really quiet for me to hear him : ) I swear I receive inspiration by the half minute sometimes : )

 How do these kids know to put up a peace sign? I didn't tell them to do that : )

 It goes without saying that it was a HUGE hit : )

 The class thought it was the best butter they had ever had ... Taiwanese people aren't huge into dairy products so it may have been the only 'butter' they have ever had : )

So sad : ( Can you tell Humpty Dumpty has been through a fall? : )
We were talking about how mamma's take care of their eggs and don't let them fall and how all day long we are going to be our eggs mamma. Ya, 4 of the three year olds had theirs broken in under 5 min. : ) I wanted to laugh but faked that I was really really sad about it.

 At the the very end of the day we made 'nests' to put our eggs in and take home. The principal said she loved the craft and that it was pretty creative. Point for me : )

 Basically I find all my craft ideas on google and them simplify them for our classroom. These were supposed to be eggs nessteld in grass or flower pedals. Straight lines are just sooo much easier to cut and so they are nesstled in colorful grass : )

Oh Roger : ) You're a keeper : )