Around the Island for Chinese New Year 2010 (part 1)

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February 22nd 2010

Published: March 28th 2010

Our first chance to travel since the trip to the Philippines in June came at Chinese New Year. Many get a week off during this time of year. Luckily for us, Rob, our good friend from the Thailand days, came to the island, and a week later, his brother joined us. We did some stuff. It was fun. The weather was lame, but the silver lining was that it ended up forcing us to some places we wouldn't ha... Read Full Entry

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Claire and Brian

CEBandBA

We are Claire and Brian. We are awesome. If you know us, a small piece of your heart is forever content. If you do not, there is a yearning deep inside you that will be one day be abated should you be lucky enough to know us. Anyways, we have been living abroad and teaching English for about fourteen months now (as of June 09). We started in Thailand. Now we are in Taiwan. Read about it if you'd like. We've been lucky with our jobs and the great people we have met along the way. We've had some opportunities to travel. We usually get a blog or two up about our travels. We'll be in Taiwan for... full info

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Marvis and Claire

Layin' it Down

Ma-jhong is a popular Chinese game that reminds us of gin. It was relatively easy to pick up, but would require much more play to master. It's a fun game. The Taiwanese gamble on this game. We didn't get good enough to attempt that. Claire and I will be bringing this game home with us! You can play online too.

Pinky

This is Pinky. You should feel privileged to be able to look at a picture of her. She is amazing

Temple Time

Near midnight, we all headed to the local temple to open the temple doors (at 12) and do some blessings and stuff.

Burning Spirit Money

They burn spirit money here. A lot

Temple stuff

The temples are pretty cool here.

Yeah...

Claire's just cool enough to have her pic taken with Pinky!!

Oh Pinky

You are pinktabulous!!!

Getting ready to open the doors

More burning

or was this when we had to cleanse our hand by running them through the flames?

Temple doors

Temple again

Firecrackers

They really, really love fireworks here and apparently the gods do too. At midnight, they lit off thousands of firecrackers a few feet away from the crowd. It was literally deafening. It is always ok to light fireworks off in Taiwan. Anytime, anywhere

Hey

This is the room Claire and I keep our clothes in.

Some people...

have way cooler suits than I

28th March 2010

Judy
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Chinese New Year
Great to see the "blog" active again. Enjoyed the pics and the captions. Looking forward to seeing your next padventure!

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