August 10, 2012

• Ken-Ting Pictures

  Since Kiki is blind she is always up for an adventure.   First thing I did when we got to the Bed N Breakfast (BnB) is to grab her and take her down to the beach to listen to the waves.  I was honestly hoping she’d travel down the steps and wind up getting her feet wet…. kinda like Helen Keller asking “WHO PUT SALT IN THE WATER!?!?!?” when they first took her to the ocean.

  

  Kiki was too smart for me… she wouldn’t get low enough to have a wave wet her.

  The weather when we got there was questionable.  The waves were choppy.

  

  Here’s some pictures of high and low tides…

  

  Normally the water here is crystal clear and blue.  Because there was a Typhoon several hundred miles north of us, the water was opaque and unfavorable for snorkeling.  Bummer.

  I took about 300+ pictures of just waves.  Don’t wanna bore you with all of them, here’s Kai as one comes to her feet.

  

  Kai grabbed the camera only one time this trip and snapped these shots of Kiki and I.

   

  Kiki is telling me all about the wave sounds…..

  Back at the hotel, the cats were napping.  That was Kai’s wrist Therapy unit in the back ground…. she’s still having problems after 9 months.  Clearly Accupuncture isn’t working… but she won’t admit that.

  

  Yes, the bed is ON the floor….. and it’s not very comfortable.  But for $35 a night it can’t be beat.

  Next day we went to MaoBiTuo and took Xiao Hu, Stumpy and Kiki.

  
   

  While I went up to see the rock…..

  

  Kai stayed with the cats and got innundated by requests to take pictures.  Here’s how I found her when I came back down.

  

  She standing to the right… has a bit of grey in her hair.  We didn’t bring an umbrella…. so all those you see are people crowding around our cats.  It was like this for 45 minutes straight as we tried to turn around and head back down… people just wanted to grab pictures of our cats and talk to us about them.  Too funny.

   

  I wanted to bop this next pictured Chinese kid quite a few times for how he kept mishandling our cats… especially Kiki….  Grrrrrr.

  I have long said that the Chinese, as a nation, are nothing more than spoiled brats.  This kid was total proof of it.  When you enforce a “One Child per family” standard, what else can you expect but a nation full of arrogant “give me everything I want and don’t question my behavior” people?  I’m serious — Chinese people seriously come off that way.  And you wonder why there’s problems in Tibet and Taiwan… and off the coast of Viet Nam, The Phillipines and Thailand lately.

  

  From MaoBiTuo it was off to another town for lunch.  Lunch was passable… I am not a fan of Chinese noodles, I prefer fried rice.  Kai’s the reverse, hates rice loves noodles.  In any case, we travelled all through town to find this shop… and later came back to find another shop for dinner.  Didn’t get pictures of that place though, sadly.

  

  I kinda wish I had waited on lunch, though…. I am dieing to know how pizza off the back of a truck tastes like…. Especially “American” style pizza.  (I’ve blogged about how Taiwanese destroy American Pizza before.  Here’s the link.)

  

  That’s two DIFFERENT pizza makers & trucks by the way.

  If you think that is weird…. here’s an entire bar on the back of a truck.  They ever get this running in America and it’ll give a whole new meaning to “Road-side service”.  The Orange caution cones are actually keeping cars away from where the tables have been set.  This whole set up was blocking 3 parking spaces.

  

  I finally found Hotel California…. it’s a surf shop, of course….

  

  No stop in Ken-Ting is complete without some of the best Ice Cream in Taiwan.  The Pelican serves a delicious Sorbet.

  

  And of course everywhere we went crowds gathered around our cats….

  

  At the end of the trip I did get to see one extra cool thing that I’ve not seen in years…..

  

  That’s a walking stick if you can’t guess it.  This baby was right outside our BnB door.

  Of course Xiao Hu only has one thing on his mind during these trips…..

  

  Taiwan’s formost Bird-Watcher.  I cringe to think what will happen if he ever catches one….

  He will tolerate a 4 hour car trip without complaint all because he knows there’s birds at the end of the trip.  He’s definitely obsessed.

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