Folklore museum

11/19 Friday

Neil and Silvia had asked if there were anything else we wanted to see, so I looked on the Internet and found a folklore museum. Taichung is just full of museums. We were on our way back to Hsinchu, but stopped there first. The grounds were lovely. We fed the fish and walked in an old traditional home that had be rebuilt. I liked the doorways,

Doorways

Feeding the fish

Koi pond

We let the kids play on the grounds a bit. Susan found a bench that was just her size. Ryan liked the challenge of the steps. We had eaten another big breakfast at the hotel, so we had a late lunch when we got back to Hsinchu County. We had soups and dishes to accompany them.

Susan's bench

Challenge of the steps

Lunch

Mark came to take Garrett back to Taipei to see a few more people. I stayed with the family and played with the children. Susan and I finished our painting project. She read to me in English and in Chinese. It is a wonder to hear her. Chinese is a pictorial language, rather than alphabetic, and for ease of reading, uses phonetic symbols next to the word symbols. They allow for easy recognition and reading. She would read me a page in Chinese and then tell me the story on that page. I read her some Curious George stories which she could have read for herself, but we like to read together. We slept in a bed with big mosquito tent over us.