Happy new year!
I’m not sure whether to be thrilled or scared. Apparently by the end of two weeks without a big project to work on Ted turns into Martha Stewart. This afternoon after making up batches of fruit (to freeze and take into work next week) he set this down next to me:
A note on scale: those orange slices are not unusually small – the grapes are enormous, taking two bits to eat. The other fruits there are pomelo slices (sort of like grapefruit but bigger) and pineapple chunks.
We made brisket in the crockpot today, so now he’s in there taking the brisket juices and adding ground beef and beans to make chili for tomorrow. I’m not complaining about any of this, you understand!
Aside from the cooking (I made bowties and kasha to go with the brisket) we spent today just hanging out and drinking mimosas. Last night was a lot of fun, I don’t think e had quite as good a spot to watch the fireworks as in previous years, but we spent it with a whole group of people and had a blast – first a party at Steven and Josine’s (we work with Steven) and then we all headed out to the Grand Hotel to see the fireworks. Actually, though it wasn’t as close to Taipei 101, it does have the advantage of altitude – we could see out all over the city. After that we set off a few small fireworks of our own down in the river-side park, then Ted and I walked home (about 3km). There were more people still setting off fireworks (and not necessarily small ones!) to entertain us all the way home and every time a group of people passed us they’d all shout “Shin yen kwai le!” and “Happy New Year!” at us. Here’s the whole group:
and here are some of the fireworks on Taipi 101 – we brought the good telephoto lens, as you can probably tell:
