Thank you to the outpouring of love, prayers, good vibes, encouraging words, and heartfelt stories today. I honestly wanted to blog what I’m going through to record my own thoughts and experiences for myself, but people have been blowing up my phone and FB. Just in the last 6 hours, I’ve had 546 readers on this blog post. Crazy!

For the past 6-7 weeks I’ve had a cough that wouldn’t go away. I noticed it when I was in SF for a wedding and figured it was the dry air. When I got home, I scheduled a doctor appointment because my lungs were hurting from the non stop coughing.

I can’t help but feel disappointed that I didn’t take anywhere near as many photos on my camera as I usually do. I think it’s a number of factors, of course we were only gone for a short trip but most of the time it was in Taipei, which is a big city like Tokyo, or Bangkok.

We chose to leave souvenir shopping to today so we’d have the best ideas on what to bring home for people. One of Taiwan’s specialties is pineapple cakes. You can find them everywhere but they all range on quality and price.

Because it was a Thursday, I didn’t bother getting our tickets back to Taipei right away. We packed up our stuff and walked in the sorta rainy weather to the train station at 10 hoping there were seats available within the next hour or so.