Taipei Life

You could almost hear The Flight of the Valkyrie playing a few days ago as we were eating our breakfast. A squadron of supersonic jets did a series of low passes in pairs and were shortly followed by at least 20 helicopters in various configurations. It was loud and a bit scary: were the Chinese invading?! We found out later that they were just exercises as practice for the Taiwanese National Day coming up next week: known colloquially as the "ten ten" as it takes place on October 10th.

It's just been a footy feast this weekend and the traditional gathering of a crowd for the AFL Grand Final occurred again on Saturday. It was lots of fun, and included the now traditional passing out of the winnings from our annual tipping comp at half time. Its always a bit weird watching football at 11.30 in the morning, but we always manage to do it! Today we sat down to watch a very entertaining game between the Warriors and Manly in the NRL grand final: although the game was great, we didn't really want either team to win: Kiwis vs the hated Manly? In the end, the best team won I suppose.

We've not done much else this weekend, although Cass had a pleasant evening with her bookclub girls on Friday night. As usual they had delicious food and lots of discussion. Their next book is actually my favourite book of the year so far, "Unbroken", so Cass is just about to crack that one. She's not normally a big fan of the biography, so I'll be interested to see her reaction to this one: it might be a just a big boy's own adventure, I'll have to wait and see!

So, that's it! Could be the shortest on record....we'll try to do something vaguely interesting between now and next week, so I have something more to write about.