Touchdown in Taipei

        We made it!!!  It was a long day of flying, but by Sunday, 8:00 am, U.S.A time, we had successfully completed our approximately 20 or so hours of flying.  The longest leg, from Detroit to Toyko ended up being only 12 1/2 hours long. We did wait on the runway for them to de-ice the plane, but after that, it was a pretty smooth flight.  After 4 movies (our favorite, Life as We Know It, reminded us of how to put an infant carrier on correctly) , 2 meals and a snack, a few naps and games of Angry Birds, Greg and I were thankful when we heard it was time to land in Tokyo.  The Toyko to Taipei flight was a much more tolerable three hours.
       From that point on we entered a different world. I've never wanted to know how to speak a different language as much as I do now.  We went through customs without a problem and exchanged some currency.  One U.S. dollar equals 29.4 Taiwanese dollars, so it's odd to be carrying money with 1000 written on the bills!
        I'm sure the locals are saying "Look at that stupid American couple with all those bags!".  We packed for ourselves, Nathan, and the orphanage, so our 4 large suitcases and multiple little bags caused the airport taxi manager in Taipei to move his arms around in a big circle and point to the street. I'm assuming he was telling us to wait for a bigger cab, because as everyone moved ahead of us, we just stood there and pointed to our itinery saying "Royal Seasons?"
       We arrived at the hotel by 11:00 Taiwan time, so while we were thinking it was Sunday morning, it was dark. In fact, it was the first time we had seen darkness. We were beat!  It was off to bed. 
       We just had breakfast at the hotel. We both looked at each other when there was salad on the table, then saw the other table around the corner had Miso soup, steamed vegetables, other things that looked like vegetables I could not identify, and then.........American food.  So, now after some delicious ham and cheese bread and coffee, we're going to spend today doing a little exploring and resting.    Hopefully we'll get to post some pictures tonight! Zai jian- goodbye!