Curry!

I have come to the realization that I love curry.  It is so scrumptious!  Jennifer and I have made this for dinner almost at least once a week.  On Friday, after work, Jennifer and I took a train up to Keelung, the total cost for tickets was  only $86NT!  There was a ghost festival going on.  They light up lanterns and let them float away out into the ocean.  It would have been marvelous to see, but they did that on Thursday.  We heard about from the security guard at our apartment.  But we spent a couple hours there walking around the town.  Over the weekend, Jennifer bought some food for an offering to the spirits, because this month is very unlucky in Taiwan - all the bad spirits are roaming around and so people burn fake money and offer food to the spirits.  This weekend I tried infusing some vodka.  Jennifer bought a bottle of Finlandia and so I poured some honey into a bottle and then filled it up with vodka.  It has been a success!  The vodka completely absorbed all of the honey and it is now a golden color.  I can't wait to try it with other things as well.  I found out all about this at: http://www.wikihow.com/Infuse-Vodka-With-Flavor

Right now I'm reading a fantastic book, The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux.  As you can guess he paddles a canoe around the islands of the Pacific.  He starts in New Zealand then to Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and others.  Oh and Michael Phelps is my hero.  Not only did he get 10 Gold Medals in Beijing but he also eats a whopping 10,000 calories a day!  Read about it here .  Alright time to go.  I'm planning on putting up those pictures of my apartment soon.