We are here!

After roughly 30 hours of travel, we are here in Taipei! It's very surreal. We can't get the internet connection in our room to work, so we're down here typing away at breakfast (side note: it's strange to see both french toast and pork buns on Jeff's plate).

The flights and layover at LAX were long, but fortunately everything went relatively smoothly. On both the five hour flight from Cincinnati to LAX and the 14 hour flight from LAX to Taipei there were cute baby boys who were also incredibly well-behaved. Of course, all babies are that good on planes, right? RIGHT?? Our experience with EVA was great (we flew one class up from economy - best decision we ever made!) and we enjoyed our flight as much as it is possible to enjoy such things. During our flight I watched many movies ranging from pretty good ("The Spiderwick Chronicles") to bad ("Vantage Point","The Other Boleyn Girl") to so bad that I hope that no one else can see me watching this because I'm that embarrassed ("10,000 B.C."). We also had a nice meal of pork, mashed potatoes, broccoli, carrots, fruit, and something white. Even after eating most of it (notice how my failure to identify it did not prevent me from consuming it), I'm not sure what it was...Jeff thinks it was some sort of seafood salad, but I'm not convinced. So between the food, the movies, and occasional cat naps, we passed the time in air, arriving in only a moderately gross state at the end.

Mr Yeh and Alex met us at the airport last night. Both are very nice and we look forward to sightseeing with them. Today, we are just trying to adjust (I feel a nap coming on) and do a little bit of exploring in the sauna that is Taiwan in July. You know, even though I had read about the 90+ degree heat and humidity, it's pretty breathtaking in person.

I hope we can get both our internet and our toilet fixed in our room so I can post more later with pictures. Yes, we've been in the country for less than 24 hours and still have managed to partially destroy our room. :-)