Moving...

No, we aren't moving home, but we are moving from one computer to a new one, which feels about the same as moving house. You still have to sort through stuff and decide what you are going to keep or trash. And, as you can tell from the lack of posts, we feel pretty displaced as well...It's a good thing we don't have to physically move anything, but instead of a backache I have a headache:) But here are some pics of the fam:

Sophie is pretty excited about a new shirt that she got. And notice the sweet sweatband which ties the outfit together perfectly

Sophie surprised us by writing some Chinese characters-advanced even if she were a Chinese kid. The characters are hua (flower) and xiao (small).

Scott's school had a 35 year anniversary last week and they asked Scott and I to dance an aboriginal dance with about 60 other teachers. They had practices every day for the past 2 months (we made it to about %10 of them), and it was a lot of fun. One of Scott's co-workers said that we are the first foreigners to participate in one of their celebrations so he called us pioneers. This pic is afterwards when the whole school was out partying with fair-type booths. We have some video of real aborigine students dancing, but we can't upload them very well. We also have some video of some sweet marching and the 10,000 students standing at attention for about 45 minutes in the hot sun. This country isn't very many years removed from military rule, so it still has some militaristic traditions. Sad, we can't get them uploaded...
And last Saturday Scott and I braved our second journey to Taipei to go to the LDS temple. We have to leave our house by 4:15 am to make the bus that leaves the church at 5:00. Then both girls got motion sick the last 2 hours of the 4 hour trip (resulting in at least 8 full vomit bags). And, sadly, all the couples with children have to split up rather than go together to make it through a session at the temple (we call it the Miller split after our old Bishop Miller's fantastic example of faithfulness in going to the temple even if you have to go alone:)), and so Scott went first and afterwards I squeezed in another and barely caught the bus home. I shopped at the distribution center at the next door stake center and got some lunch during my shift. And Scott took the kids to the nearby Chiang Kai Shek memorial during his. Here's a picture of the memorial to a tyrant that many Taiwanese want changed: (Euan's asleep)



I'm glad they had fun because, although we changed seats, Meili still threw up on the way home, too. And it is 5 1/2 hours on the way home because of traffic, and then another 45 minutes on the scooter. At least it is a good lesson to the girls at how important going to the temple is for us. But we will have to figure out another way next time-it was just too rough on them.