Kelly and I spent our 24th anniversary on a day trip in Taipei with our kids and I'll be posting pictures this week of our adventure. Today's photos are of the second tallest building in the world, the Taipei 101. For your information, I've also added pictures to previous posts from the time we arrived in Taiwan on August 16 where I had just added text originally.
This very first picture is what I saw the moment I stepped off the shuttle bus and I was blown away and snapped my first shot.





There were a lot of high end retail shops with big names and I thought my Dickson friends would appreciate this one.
I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
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