Curry!

Sunday was rather relaxing, we did not leave the apartment until 5PM.  I talked to my good friend Abraham on skype for a good 1.5 hours and then watched some tv.  In the afternoon our real estate agent, Rock, came in and helped us set up a password for the wireless internet so no one can steal it.  Later, Jennifer and I went to Taipei Main Station because it is almost Valentine's Day in Taiwan, yeah Taiwan is weird like that, and the Taipei Metro Authority or Transit Authority whatever it's called has a deal where if you give them a picture of you and your partner and $1500NT then you get four $500NT metro passes!  And the picture of you and your partner will be on the pass.  So we did that and around 7, we met Jennifer's cousin Kevin and his girlfriend Candy.  She was not able to pick her English name, she wanted Ambrosia.  They took us out to eat curry!  For $270NT we got a salad, soup, main course, and a drink at the end.  I had an omelet with rice and beef along with the curry sauce.  It was really yummy, but next time, I'm going to go for the fried chicken in the curry.  Kevin and Candy are really nice and cool.  After dinner they showed us around the area a bit, (for awhile we didn't get home until 11) they showed us the old American Embassy.  It is now a bookstore/coffee shop/movie theatre.  At the coffee shop there was some Russian written in the comment book, so my hopes are up as I am still looking for the ever elusive Russians in Taiwan.  The great thing about the movie theatre is that it is free!  Quick history lesson, the United States stopped having an embassy in Taiwan (ROC) when Taiwan had to leave the UN and the "One China Policy" was adapted.  So now that embassy is in Beijing.  I found out from Candy that she is an airline stewardess for Thai airlines and so she is based out of Bangkok.  So we have a place to stay if we ever go there and she also told us that we have a place to stay if we go to Beijing or Hong Kong b/c her sister has places there.  We also have a place to stay in Tokyo b/c Jennifer's uncle has a place there.  Jennifer and I have been thinking about going to Tokyo around Thanksgiving b/c that is when her uncle will be there.  Now I must go to bed because I have to work tomorrow morning.