Some recent goings-on from Elizabeth

Vickey's Farewell
Vickey, a dancer from Toronto, Ontatrio, Canada is leaving Taiwan later this month, and that meant a farewell gatearing of sorts was needed. Having the event Mother's Day weekend meant that many places were gonna be busy, so I did some early scouting for places that could easily accomodate a larger group on one of the busiest weekends for restaurant. Hung Kan was the place of choice, and it's a 24-hour Cantonese place in the heart of the city in a busy strip along Zhongxiao E. Road. It has something for everyone, from small dim sum items to main dishes and desserts. It was a night where 12 of us got together for dinner wher we wined and dined on some good cantonese food. Nearly everyone had a camear, and there was quite a bit of shutterbug syndrom going on, with Jan taking the cake for shutterbugness. Vickey came up with the idea that we should treat ourselves to dinners like this more often, and voiced her opinion that Hung Kan should be a place of choice, as I have a VIP !
card to dine there, and I should organize this stuff. I think we need to have dinners/get-togethers like this more often, and perhaps we can promote swing dancing at the same time. After dinner, some of us headed over to Vieshow to catch Iron Man, and Gracie, a dancer from Chicago made an appearance to hang out with us before flying home the next day. As the only showing we were able to get was a late one, we grabbed smoothies from the food court, looked at pics taken over the course of the evening, and relaxed a bit before some of us called it a night to catch the last MRT's back home after fun evening out.

Azabu Sabo and Coldstone
It's Mother's Day sunday, and I came up with the spur-of-the-moment idea to rally together those of us in Taipei without Mother's Day plans to get dinner and dessert afterward. We went out to Azabu Sabo by 101, and as Leven and Cadence had just gotten back from Thailand, dinner discussion was about the adventures they had for a week in Thailand. After dinner and several rounds of green tea, we took a short walk to Coldstone for their ice cream creations. It might've been the ice cream or the habit of dancing sunday nights or both, but wer started dancing outside New York New York, with an audience watching, possibly gawking, but who knows. Anyway, some of hummed or sang some swing tunes and thsoe not humming were dancing in the dark.