Wet Tuesday

We were exhausted after all the weekend activities so Monday we took it easy... but after one day at home we were ready to hit the road again on Tuesday! What better place to wander than the Taipei Zoo!? So we packed up all our gear, got a taxi over and entered the park on a somewhat empty weekday... 20 minutes into our zoo adventures (15 of which were spent in the gift shop looking for a hat to keep the sun off of Hunter's face) the rain started...


Obviously Hunter was affected... poor guy wasn't thrilled about the prospect of sitting in his pram under cover for long... he wanted to run wild & free!!!

But there are still interesting things to look at despite the weather...

The monkeys got excited about these bananas.

Like all parents aspire to - we brought everything the kids needed for the outing - but forgot to prepare as well as for ourselves - thus the yellow 'humidity suit' we're modeling and Tony's new umbrella.

Helena's happy anywhere as long as she still gets fed... so she enjoyed lunch with the leopard.


The monkeys didn't seem to mind the rain.



Strangely we made it through the outing without any ice cream... Amber had a momentary lapse of self-control, but pulled it together in the end.


Later that evening we had a Sister Night out at the Tong Hua Night Market. I got my eyebrows "strung"... she did far more tweezing than stringing, but the result was clean & tidy eyebrows - high on the priority list...