Birthdays, fireworks, and KTV

The weather was freezing for the first few days after we got back from vacation. It actually wouldn't be that bad except that there's no indoor heating and our floors are icy cold cement. I went to sleep with my blowdryer for a few nights to warm up my frozen toes. Things are back to normal now and we're just hopin' it stays that way.

Last week was Steve's b-day so we all went to everyone's favorite place for dumplings. Then we had birthday cake, ice cream, and peanut butter at McDonald's. (Peanutbutter in Taiwan has so much sugar, it tastes like candy...so Steve had the bright idea to bring peanut butter to McDonalds and put it on icecream.)

Chinese New Year fireworks on the roof!

Wanna' be pyros!!!

We ended the night with a crazy game of spoons. The spoons were hidden in different rooms and we had to hunt for them. I almost made it to the final round but Destiny and Joseph beat me to the last two spoons hidden in the girl's bathroom.

The next day was Sain's birthday!!! We decided to celebrate by participating in Taiwan's national pastime... Karoake or KTV as it's called here in Taiwan.

We love the random karoake videos and the chinglish lyrics.

Pushing the reject button! It's a tough job but somebody's gotta' do it!