This is a late night entry from the couch of Khyree and Jake. My vacation week has started, and has mostly been wasted by sleeping in. I'm not very good at vacationing. Is it possible to not be good at that? Well don't sleep till noon if you want to have some R & R, because that's when school is over anyway, so you could have done anything you did on vacation but just done it after school instead. But the difference is you can stay up really late, you might note the date stamp above.

Everyone else is tucked in bed in their bed rooms, 3 of them, I am in the living room, left unsupervised with the family computer (which is Jake's computer, he leaves it on). I didn't realize I'd be coming here tonight and didn't bring any cash, so Khyree will hopefully feed me tomorrow, we plan to go out to breakfast. If you can call the meal that you eat after you finally wake up at noon breakfast. Whatever you call it, I like eating it and going out to eat it with friends.

Khyree and I are getting to be pros at the hot springs now, it's so cheap ($1.30USD), and quite easy to get to. We do have to ride the MRT to the end of the line, which takes 45 minutes, but it's worth it. There's nothing quite as enjoyable, or quite the same, as sitting in water that's too hot for too long then getting up to go into a cooler pool, or the cold pool which is way too cold until you get used to it. But we kept repeating this process tonight, it's how you do the hot springs, too hot, too cold, too even-hotter, too cold. I heard it's good for the skin or the circulation or something. The part when you first get in the hot water after the cold water is the best part usually. And of course there are plenty of people in the pools and plenty of slightly akward things that I had to divert my eyes from for various reasons. Sometimes I'd just close my eyes to avoid akwardness.

Last time Khyree and I decided not to buy the tight "proper" shorts and weren't allowed in. But this time we decided to bow to the rules and buy some of the "proper" shorts, which are skin hugging but not spedos, niether of us wanted to, but the hot water could not be resisted for long. So today, we braved a new world of swimwear. The swimwear wasn't as bad as we'd feared, it was double layered and spent most of it's time submersed in the murky waters of the hot springs anyway.

We even saw the old man that we talked to a few weeks ago, about China vs America, but we didn't talk to him and we're not sure he recognized us anyway. Maybe he didn't recognize us in our new swimwear.

Before long we found ourselves on a lightly populated MRT train. I got Khyree to take a picture of me a car away, so I look small. Then I went to one end of the hundred something feet long train and then walked to the other end recording a video along the way. The video ended up shaky and I should have looked around more, but I got a video of the entire length of a Tapei Metro System six-car train. I think the train stopped twice during my little walk. And I felt kind of silly on my walk back. But now that the video has been shot, I feel better about coming home, I got some MRT video. The MRT is one of my favorite things in this city. I'm a nerd that way. Maybe I'll take some more video. Those trains are long and I have a lot of hard drive space left on my laptop computer.