Our Last Day . . .

Taipei 101-Tallest building in the world! We also took the faster elevator in the world-101 stories in less than 33 seconds! We could see for miles and miles-pretty amazing! As we were up there, I all of a sudden heard a loud BOOM! It felt like something had crashed a few floors beneath us b/c the floor shook . . . well . . . it was AN EARTHQUAKE!!! O.k., I'm starting to panic now . . .the employees all started running to look at the Damper Baby, which is an ENORMOUS ball in the center of the building hanging by a pendulum helps to keep the building balanced for earthquakes and typhoons probably was moving a little bit to keep the buidling from falling!!!
Basically, we took the fastest elevator down immediately and went back to the hotel! Phhewww, never been in an earthquake before, and especially not 100 stories up!

This was the changing of the guards at the Martyrs Shrine. They change once every hour, it's very formal-you'd have to see it on video to get the "full effect." The guards stand on their post for one hour w/out moving. Keep in mind it's usually very hot and humid and these guards are fully clothed-phewww, hot!!!

These are our last few photos in Taiwan on the way to the airport, we stopped at the Grand Hotel, a very old, famous hotel in Taiwan located on the outskirts of Taipei overlooking the city.


Flying home was a lonnnnnnggg trip. Kaiya mostly slept the whole way which was great, but she slept on me, which kept me up! haha! On our flight from LAX to Chicago, we flew with John Cusack which, being a celebrity junkie, thought was pretty cool! :) We landed around 11:30 p.m. Thursday night and when Kaiya saw Brett for the first time she had the biggest smile!! We said, "BaBa" (daddy in Chinese) and she leaned to him and he held her! It was wonderful! She laid her little head on him and hasn't let go! She has adjusted so nicely, we couldn't have been any luckier.

Tonight, she meets her brother and sister and grandparents . . .so we're all looking foward to that! Finally, a family of 5!