We have gotten into a nice rhythm.  I get Mae up at 8 and make her breakfast, she loves to be waited on- she complains that I did not wake her up early enough (she wants to get up at 7- I set my alarm for 8).  This morning I told her I was going to walk with her to the 7-11 to get some newsapapers……”In that!” she asked….”they look like pajamas”.  Well they most definitely were NOT pajamas but I told her “it’s culturally acceptable to wear pajamas in the morning when out shopping in China”.  Which is technically true if we were in the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) as opposed to the ROC (Republic of China or Taiwan) where we are.  Semantics.  She wouldn’t walk next to me and said good bye to me over her shoulder 2 stores before 7-11.

Came back to apartment and woke Max up- everyone was tired as we were up late!  I love Tripadvisor- it is my go to source when traveling.  Yesterday I was looking at “Things to do in Taipei” and saw that there is a mall with a huge Ferris wheel.  Had actually seen in when driving in from the airport the 1st day.  Took a picture of the address with my phone camera and when the kids all got home and were ready to head out we loaded into a taxi.  Showed him the picture and 15 minutes later were at the mall!  A great way to see other parts of the city too!

It was a huge mall- kids were excited that there was a TGI Friday’s, they have never eaten at one- and don’t think we will this trip!  The mall had a movie theatre so we went up to the tip top of the mall (maybe 12 stories) and they were basically only showing “Jurassic World”.  In Taiwan and most of Asia, you buy your assigned seat, there was only the 1st 3 rows left so we bought those.

You pre-purchase your pop and popcorn and/or food (oddly churros and hot dogs were the only food choices).  The popcorn can either be sweet or salty.  Guess which one we choose!

Theater was big- chairs did not rock but did have cup holders.  Movie started on time with about 3 trailers and some public announcement cartoons about talking on the phone while watching movie and a really cute one about the rating system.  They showed a little girl at a scary shark movie with her parents and then later back home in bed between her parents (family beds alive and well in Asia) and the little girl wakes up screaming and has peed the bed.  Simple but effective tool to show WHY 4 year olds should not be in PG-13 or R rated films.

The movie was great- it was in English but with Chinese subtitles.  It was very suspenseful- Mae kept getting mad at me because I kept screaming or saying “this isn’t going to end well!”.  We were to tired to do much else and full from the popcorn so came home. We will go back there- I want to ride the Ferris wheel.

Earlier in the day Zach and I went to eat lunch, found a yummy dumpling place….. then went to the French grocery store- we had one in Haikou, China when we lived there 3 years ago.  They are huge 2 story grocery stores with an escalator you put your shopping cart on!

The egg truck was parked in front of the market- both brown and white eggs.