American Indian is to buffalo as Chinese is to duck

It has been a couple of days sense I have updated the blog, but we have been pretty busy, and in all honesty, we are a little tired. For me, it's mostly the fact that I haven't had a day off in quite a while. This has made me a little low on energy. Tami is going strong, but I think she misses cheese.
I was able to add a couple more foods to my bucket list that I haven't eaten before; duck blood, not to be confused with pig blood, or pig blood cake, and duck feet. I have to say, I didn't see the duck feet coming. That is the one thing that I would have assumed they would have given up on and decided that enough was enough. After all, they don't eat the feathers.....at least I don't think so. The duck's feet were pickled, and basically tasted like pickled cartilage. How do I know what pickled cartilage taste like? Don't ask.
All of this was served to us by the father of our host family. He took the time to make us a traditional home-made meal. Every time I hear the term "traditional", I get nervous. We arrived, sat with the entire family, including grandma and grandpa. Grandma said that Tami was beautiful and that I was handsome. At least that is what we were told. Grandma could have been telling us to get the heck out of the house for all I know, but I'm going to assume the best. While we were eating this meal we also had the opportunity to watch the Twilight movie. I think that is the first thing in Taiwan that has made me sick during a meal, and it wasn't even associated with something I ate. Seriously, what is up with that movie? Every time I try to give it the benefit of the doubt I find myself saying "really, you can't be serious, that's just too dumb." Anyway, it was a unique meal, I think I'll recover from the movie in the next couple of days.
The picture that is included in the blog post is a little difficult to see in small mode, but if you open it up to full size, you will see a delightful family of three out for a nice drive. Both toddler, mother and daughter are zipping through traffic with great joy. What are the safety seat requirements for children in the U.S.? Do you think a child's seat could be effectively mounted on a scooter?

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