Some Welcome And Not So Welcome Visitors

The whole of the weekend was marred by a Typhoon. I've been waiting ages for one and then one comes along on a weekend of all days! So this was the not so welcome visitor for the weekend; Typhoon Sinlaku

The Typhoon started affecting Taiwan on Friday and didn't leave until Monday evening. The biggest issue remains the extended period of rainfall due to the storm's very slow speed.
The eye of the storm did finally make landfall - three times: 1:50am Ilan, 10am at Keelung & 6pm at Danshuei / Sanshzi. This means that the eye of storm came to the main island and then left and then returned in a looping pattern. Not unusual for a single loop - but three is quite unprecedented. Meteorologists couldn't recall it happening before.

Trying to not let the Typhoon completely destroy the weekend George and I flitted between going out and staying in watching TV. Friday evening was Shelly and Josh's farewell party before they move to Japan. So we had to brave the typhoon and venture out to Beitou for the $300 all you can drink party. It was actually very nice and even met Blake who i haven't seen in months. We made our way home by taxi in the early hours of the morning.

We spent most of Saturday just lazing around the house watching TV until the evening when we went to Jack's house for a small gathering of people. Steve was also in Taipei so i invited him over and we chatted and drank whilst playing some drinking games. Steve was on a mission to go out so we ended up in Carnegie's. Actually, old men trying to pull young girls aside, the place is good, good beer and good music. A little small and expensive but not a bad place, i think I'd go back there for sure. We got home at about 4am and finished off the evening by watching Bridget Jones' Diary.

Sunday was spent confined to the house due to the obscene levels of rain outside but finally got to watch Sex and the City which was really great, highly recommended! So a good weekend despite the awful weather.