Sunday, Sunday, what to do today? Torben and I went to the Family Mart and got our coffee. We also hit Laguardia, this breakfast place next door – I had an egg wrap with ham and I got Tim a bagel sandwich – egg and ham. Both were pretty decent. The best part is they had an English menu so I could read what I was getting instead of pointing to a picture. Additionally we discovered that it wasn’t too hot today! Wow, crazy. Tim had mentioned checking out the beach this weekend so we decided to see what the beach was all about. We are after all on an island and we do live in a city that is on the ocean, the Taiwan Strait which is part of the South China sea and what separates Taiwan from it’s big brother China. Yunche had written down the place to go in my little book so the adventure started with a cab ride to the beach – it turned out to be about 10 km (6 miles for the Americans) away. There was a nice walkway above the beach and the beach itself has a lot of potential. It looked as if the government had put in a lot of money into the beach development but it never caught on so it was pretty run down. There were some people fishing and one other family playing and swimming in the water but that was it. The tide was in so that wasn’t the greatest. I think if the tide was out Torben could run around a little more. The waves were way too big for him to play around in unassisted. The beach was black sand and so the dry sand was pretty hot. Because Torben loves to put everything in his mouth I was a little stressed out about what he was ingesting. It was a nice outing but it wasn’t what I had in mind when I first though about taking him to the beach everyday. I probably won’t be going to the beach every other day. It also took us a long time to get a cab back to town. Good thing it wasn't too hot out today.
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