Same same, kids off to school- earlier in the week Zach and I had found a yoga studio when we were out exploring.  I’d signed up for a class for today at noon.  They were very nice at the studio- a free standing 2 story building with 3 classrooms.  I arrived about 10 min before class- all dressed and ready to roll.  Class was in one of the smaller rooms and by the time i’d gotten in it was almost full- i’d say about 30 people, mat to mat.  Kind of like classes in NYC.

The room was warm and the windows open, I figured they were airing out the space before class.  WRONG- no fans, no A/C………just super hot Hatha Yoga.  I about died, I swear I sweated off about 10lbs.  It went from bad to worse.  Even after over 3 weeks I am NOT used to this humidity.  The class actually was really good, the teacher saw me- the only Western gal in the group and came up in perfect English asked how long i’d been studying.

At one point in the class the firecracker, horn playing brigade came down the street so she SHUT THE WINDOWS.  By then I’d just surrendered to the sweat and figured “this too shall end”.

Back to the apartment to wait for Max and Mae to get home.  We are going to go down to the Taipei 101 building.  It’s either the 2nd or 4th tallest building in the world, have seen both numbers quoted- found out it has the fasted elevator in the world.  An easy 20 min taxi ride brought us to the city center.

We were all starving so headed to the usual mall (I swear there is a mall every 2 blocks here!) basement food court to eat.  It was huge- they had an Indian food concession- I was so happy!

We walked around the mall- one designer store after another- plus you pay insane VAT (value added tax- like 50%) on everything you buy.  Which we didn’t.

Max was excited to see this.

We bought tickets to go to the 98th floor.  Had to wait in a very short line which by the way it snaked around the building could have been a couple hour wait!  There are elevator people in most elevators here- at least in the nicer malls.  Their sole job is to push the button to the floor you are going to.  A throw back!

Views were amazing from the top- all glass wrapping around the building-

 Max was hoping the outside observatory would be open, he wondered what it would be like to throw a coin off the top.  OMG- this kid does not change!  I’ve given up telling him to smile in pictures and just let him make his goofy faces.  Will make him a book of them some day!