Plum Blossoms and Taiwan Express

Kevin and I are obviously computer people. We love to read, but spend more time in bookstores and ordering from Amazon.com than in libraries. I had the day off today, and we ventured into our local library. A friend in the children's department gave us a personal tour. The story hour room is absolutely beautiful with lots of handpainted murals, and when you turn down the lights... you can turn on the starry night twinkling ceiling complete with shooting stars. I remember loving story hour as a child, and can't wait to have Hannah Claire lugging a huge book bag to go to story hour.

We checked out a few books on Taiwan today at the library, and I read that the plum blossom is the national flower of Taiwan. Now I'm thinking I'd like to paint a mural of a plum blossom tree in a corner of the nursery arching up over the window and maybe growing up on part of the ceiling too. Pretty, symbolic, and not so babyish as Hannah Claire grows up!

Tonight we ate at the Taiwan Express restaurant in Fort Wayne with another pre-adoptive couple. We had a great time and closed the place down, talking for three hours! The food was pretty typical Americanized Chinese food. No stinky tofu, tea eggs, bubble tea, or raw salted pork fermenting in a jar. Kevin is a hot and sour soup fan, and liked theirs because it was a lot more spicy than we've had before. I liked the egg rolls because they were extra thin and crispy on the outside. Now if eating at Taiwan Express could just speed up the Taiwan adoption process....