It was back to school time for us – morning came to soon.  Got breakfast for Max and Mae and headed out to school to make the 9:00AM class start time.  Mae’s day camp is from 9AM-3PM.  And I thought Max’s class was from 9AM-1PM but was actually 10AM-2PM.  It was fine, Mae went into her class and we walked around a bit and got Max some school supplies for the handy TLI (Taipei Language Institute) bag they had given him with his new text books.

Went back to the apartment- Zach was up so headed out to explore.  Explored past the SUGO dept store.  Fun little shops, little restaurants ……. found a noodle place to try for lunch.  Lots of meat noodle soups for the boys so I got some sea weed.  It was thicker then what we get at home.  It confused me.

We were back at the apartment by 2:00- Rob ended up walking down to school to pick Max up.  Max had a good day- he as 4-50 min classes with 3 different teachers.  It is just him and his teachers, he said they all were nice.  He ran out to a “Our Family” little  store to grab a sandwich for lunch.

Hung out for a bit then Rob and I walked back to school to pick up Mae.  She is with 2 other kids in her class- 9 and 11 year old boys.  She liked it and will be learning language skills.

Our landlady ordered a car to take Rob to the airport- city taxi’s won’t go all the way to the airport- it is nice and convenient!  3:30PM came to fast- it was sad to say goodbye to Rob- he wasn’t super excited either.

Back to vedge in the apartment – speaking of apartment:  here is our living room/kitchen:

Thats Mae watching her Taiwanese “drama’s”.  She is in heaven- our bedrooms are down the hallway to the right.  Small but perfect for us.  In the upper right corner of the picture you can see an orange door, it slides open to the washing machine and to a glassed in porch for drying clothes.   Of course no shoes in the house so they get piled up by the door.

View from our living room window-Tienmu is a very “fashionable” area to live as it is close to the American and Japanese schools. Lots of small shops and trendy restaurants- kind of like where we live in Phoenix- but trading the dry heat for the humid heat!

Took us until about 8 to get motivated to go to dinner.  Decided to try a pizza place we saw earlier today.  It actually was not to hot walking about at this time.  The pizza place was very yummy.  Waitress asked if it was anyones birthday this month-we all looked at her quizzically because we could not remember the month and she said “June” and Mae and I said “Yes!”.  Mae’s birthday is June 26th, so for the whole month of June Mae will get a free pizza every time we go there!  Cool beans.