TAS Spring Ball and Middle School Spirit Week

The Spring Gala was very fun...excellent dinner, excellent wines, excellent friends. I am going to upload what few pictures I have with apologies. K,C, and I never had an official picture taken...thus, I have no picture of me in my first long dress since Senior Prom. Oh well....

I did buy a lovely picture (don't ask me how I will get it home, but I love it. I'm hoping Adra will use it until I figure out how I will get it home). I also bought silk bedding and a Franz teapot. I've already invited all the people who have helped me to the Kreiling's home to share the bottles of wine that were mine. I believe Al says "don't tip when you are tipsy." To that I will add don't bid when you have been drinking free libations. K & C had the winning bid for a week's stay in Las Vegas, a very, very nice trip for their family and all of their new friends...new friends who turned up after they had the winning bid. The band that played is made up of TAS teachers, and is very popular wherever they play. In fact, they are so good that some neighbhoods don't want them playing at the local restaurants because so many people turn up...gets way to noisy!

I had another TM when my local bank card ended up on the table while I was paying for my auction items. When I said "I think that is mine," the ladies said "Oh no, we will take care of it." Silly me...it was mine. Fortunately, it stayed locked in the Hyatt vault over the week-end, and I was able to pick it up Monday morning at TAS when I picked up my auction items. I was a wreck after waiting for it for over 5 weeks. World traveler strikes again...

The second set of pictures is Ch getting ready for TAS Middle School Spirit Week. The first day all 7th graders were supposed to wear read. The mohawk was his idea, and I think it got sprayed red when he got to school. He and his friends Patrick and Lucas were going to dress alike on "Twin Day"...make that Triplet Day in his case. C was going to the last day assembly when the MS kids try to blow out the gym with spirit!

I paid for my fun week-end with a terrible cold, cough, and fever that lasted all week. I didn't miss any work, but surely collapsed inbetween. The Kreilings are coming to my rescue tomorrow on the slow train from Taipei. They are finding me some Z-packs, and will bring them down tomorrow afternoon on the Kids' first spring break day. Now that's an exciting holiday...taking meds to Gram. What would I do without them????? I had a few TMs trying to round up meds in Neili, to no avail, so I'm glad they are able to come down and see where I live and work. This is old hat to C who helped me so much when I moved in.

Onward and upward...another two weeks and it will be my spring break! I tried to go to Phuket, but I could only fly through Bangkok, and there are too many demonstrations going on right now. I tried to get to Kota Kinabalu, but everything was booked up. I will just stay in Taipei and hit all the museums...and maybe get to the lily fields and the hot springs. We shall see. I am already booking my Beijing trip after missing out on spring break...nothing like planning ahead.