Welcome back!
Well.. we’re finally under way on our trip. We had a little snag at the airport with some incorrect data on a passport. After spending the night at the airport we were able to work things out and the immigration officials allowed us to enter the country.
Yesterday we visited Taichung – we visited the mission home and they had just finished a zone ocnference so there were lots of missionaries in the office. We were able to meet with the President Waterson for a few minutes and we enjoyed getting to know him. It is amazing to see how the church has grown in Taiwan and how missionary work is progressing. After meeting the missionaries we walked around the city and had dinner at “Fattys” (an Italian place) — We’ll start experiencing the local cuisine later.
Tonight we are staying up in the mountains at a place called Ali Shan. We are staying at the Ali Shan House – it really feels like a “local” hotel with its Asian-style furnishings and authentic food. We are surrounded by lush forests that are literally “in the clouds” and are anchored by ancient Cyprus trees; many of them are more than 1000 years old, and some are around 2000 years old. We’ll be getting up at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow to go see the sunrise on the top-top of Taiwan. It should be fun but will make for a long day! After that we are off to Kaohsiung.
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This post was written by Paul Pearson on July 28, 2006
