World Games / Mom's Bday

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

After getting back from Thailand we headed to Koahsiung to check out the World Games. The first night we went out for dinner at Smokey Joe's and then headed to a pub. Mom, the crazy party animal that she is kept us out till 4:30am. Needless to say we all had a little bit of a sleep in the next day. Then we headed out to see some Korfball. Sort of like European Handball, the players throw the ball back and forth to each other. The ball looked like a soccer ball but apparently wasn't. The players went down the court and threw the ball into a basket with no back board to get a point. The neat thing, I thought was that each side of the court had set players so when the action moved across the line into the other zone it was picked up by the other half of each time. We watched the Netherlands clobber Australia. We were trying to go see the tug of war and ended up having a really nice walk along the water front. No one seemed to hear about the tug of war, or understand what we were saying so after that we hopped into a cab and headed back towards the main part of the city
Koahsiung - World Games
Koahsiung - World Games
. We did some public transpo to take us to an Indian place. We got caught in traffic by an insane fireworks display. The one picture shows the piles of residue from the fireworks.
The next night we went out to the Balcony for Mom's Birthday! We kept it to a small crowd, mostly the girls, Erin, Theresa, Sam and myself. We brought a new teacher along and had our friend Craig join us. We had a fantastic meal of Taiwanese food and then cake which thankfully turned out to be a good. Many of the cakes look good but don't always taste that way.
And finally, Mom had been riding with me just about every day on the scooter so we needed a picture of that. She and I took the scooter out to a lower traffic area the one day and Mom played around and drove it a bit on her own. I was pretty impressed and happy that she wanted to try it out. As most of you know we just had a couple more days in Chiayi before going home. Mom went swimming quite a bit at the apartment and took walks down to the park. We went out to eat and saw some of my friends and packed up stuff in the apt. Then on Thursday [the 23rd] we made our way back up to the airport and arrived in Canada on Friday July 24th at around 6:30am.
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