Picture This

To give everyone a break from my annoying posts, here are some random vacation pictures I took of things that I thought were fascinating...



McDonalds Taiwan

Because Taiwan is such a small island, trash is a pretty big problem. They've basically mandated that everything be sorted and recycled whenever possible. This isn't your typical newspaper, aluminum can kind of recycling... everywhere you go, you have to actually use your brain to figure out which of the 15,000 different trash containers you can throw your stuff into. Even at McDonalds... plastic cap on the McFlurry goes here... but then the napkin goes here... but not the paper french fry bag... what? I don't think I like this game anymore...


Walk

Another thing they have in Taiwan (and China) that should be instituted here is the informative traffic lights/walk signs. Both the traffic lights and the pedestrian signs count down the number of seconds you have before the light changes from green to yellow to red. I don't know why we haven't adopted this system here because they even have these things in the very remote Southern areas of China. Come on, don't tell me it's a cost issue... I've seen them replace those darn walk signs downtown a million times. Maybe we just want to have the option to use the "I didn't know it was a short light" excuse when the officer pulls us over.


Appetizing...

Just in case anyone thought I was exaggerating when I said that China Airlines had horrible airplane food, I give you my evidence. Mmmm... yummy, right? Just imagine having something like this shoved in front of your face every 4 hours for 24 hours. Bonus points if you can guess what they tried to call this dish.