Taiwan: Day One

We (Nina, Christa and I) arrived last night after a full day of traveling (Mokpo - Gwangju - Seoul - Incheon - Taipei) and we haven't really slowed down...

Here's a very quick of my first impressions - Quick since I'm currently on a Chinese computer that I have to pay for:

1. There are scooters EVERYWHERE here.
2. It rains all the time.
3. Virginia in a Jade Market could also be entitled "A Fool and Her Money...."
4. When it isn't raining, it's humid as hell.
5. And then it starts raining again.
6. It's a *very* clean city and beautiful with wide boulevards, lots of trees (yay) and not too "city-ish" like Beijing or Tokyo or Seoul.
7. The shopping is great fun.
8. The people are beautifully dressed with eccentric hairstyles.... love it.
9. There are 812 ways to prepare tofu here, apparently, and I've not yet had my fill.
10. We are *very* lucky to be traveling with Nina, who used to live here and who is showing us around.
11. It's just started raining again....

I'm going to go wake Nina and Christa up now and demand to be taken to the Night Market for some more shopping.