Well, we're in Taiwan, Republic of China. The flight was long, luckily Alexia and I slept through a major chunk of it and we both noted it seemed shorter than the 13+ hours it was. Didn't even watch any of the movies they were playing (nothing looked particularly interesting)! We were greeted in Taipei with a lovely rain storm, very wet outside, other than a bit of mild turbulence it's not much of a bother.
We've got 14 hours of time to waste here in Taipei till our flight leaves tonight to take us to Phuket in Thailand, where it seems like we'll have to hail a cab sometime after midnight to take us down south to the Patong Beach area where we've got a hotel room booked for the next few days.
For today, we found out about a free city tour sponsored by the Taiwan Tourism board, basically pile onto a bus filled with other tourists and they'll drive us around showing whatever they can in a few hours. Amongst other destinations, we should be checking out the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101. Don't yet know if we'll be hopping out of the bus much, what with all the rain.
We've been relaxing in a cafe at the airport for the last few hours, enjoying free internet, snacks, and 1 song. I don't know why but the cafe has literally been playing the same song on repeat the entire time we've been here. Hours. I don't know how the employees deal with it, I'd go fruit loops. Wonder if it's a subliminal ploy to keep customers from sitting around in the cafe too long. Like us. :) In our case we're too stubborn to leave.
Well, that's all for now. Oh, we'll send out an update about it later, but did you notice the new "subscribe to Scubadditions via e-mail" link at the top of this page? That's how I spent the first few hours of my cafe time, figuring out how to add that feature. Should be -much- easier to get updates on our blog now that it's turned on, try it, you'll like it!
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