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On Sunday we went to a BEAUTIFUL golf course in Ching Shui for a bye-bye BBQ - it was awesome! And - all Ryan and I had to do was show up! Thank you, thank you everybody! Especially thank you Karin who organized the whole thing and bbq'd it up!!!

We were on a practice hole across an access road (no cars allowed) from the actual course itself. Lots of guys brought clubs and went everyone wasable to go back and forth.

Some of the hi-lites (off the top of my weary head - WARNING - there's one bad word)

• Mary's dog, Hei-ji, eats cucumbers and tomatoes


• At the end of the night, Ning-ning asked Ivo to lai wo jia/go to her house


• Ivo LOVES Steve and Australian football


• When the one errant golf ball bounced just over Pete's head, he was eating salad and said, "I'm just trying to eat a salad, getting my fag on... That's it, I'll never eat salad again!"


• Picture where Karin looks quite like Rosie the Riveter

Burly at 16 Months!

Yesterday Burl clocked in at 4 months and 1 year! Wow!

In the morning, we recycled ourselves silly and ran errands - including a trip to the jade market - where no jade was bought but some scrolls were.

In the afternoon, we took Ryan to the brewery in Wu Er to have a farewell with some friends. The boys and I went to the Science Museum Park and had some K2 ice cream. And Karin came to meet us. Burl had 2 spoons going. He doesn't even like ice cream -but he's not about to miss out on having his own bowl... Everytime he has a bite of ice cream, he gives me alook like I'm crazy and what do I mean by feeding him such stuff!

The boys got to play in the water - they attracted quite a crowd. Burl got to run around without pants. We walked the whole park - I think the Science Museum has the most beautiful park in Taichung.

Burl and Mirrors

We only have a couple mirrors in the house and Burl has access to none of them. So, he takes to mirrors like an Amish kid takes to flush toilets!

Videos aren't embedding again - click here to see 36 hilarious seconds of Burl playing hide n seek with his mirror image:)

Ivo n Burl on Tea Street

Thursday, 26 June with Ryan. Had to eat, had to run around...

Monday, 23 June. Burl and I went to pick up my repaired phone and then took a little walk on Tea Street. We ran into Steve and Haili!

Ivo and Burl at the Gong Yi - Chung Ming Nan Park

This is the shadiest park I could think of on Thursday. Ivo, Burl and I stayed out of the house, boxes and half-packed stuff all morning so that when the movers came the boys would be tired - and out of the way. It worked perfectly!

Ivo even took a nap - his first in weeks...

However, later, say 10pm, Burl and I had fallen asleep, but Ivo was wide awake. I remember him telling me he had to go poo-poo. I think I said, Ok - go... Ryan was out with some friends. I continued sleeping. When Ryan got home he found Ivo sleeping on the toilet! It seems Ivo had been waiting for someone to come wipe his bum bum... I really wish he'd come up and told me he needed help... Poor guy:(

Bad bad mama!

In my defense, I'm gonna claim, that Burl was nursing. Also, I haven't slept well for a couple weeks and was finally exhausted and... I had no idea - I was finally sleeping... Who goes poop at 10pm?

After the park, we went to the N1ke outlet to get some shoes for Ivo - these pics are from the arcade just outside. You can see Ivo's shoes.