We Share Herbert's Dream 美夢成真的夜晚

Recipe for a good evening:

• Leave the house at 5:00 PM. Walk to the Beitou MRT station 捷運北投站.
• Ride the MRT Red Line to Minquan Station 捷運民權站 and transfer to the Yellow Line.
• Get off the MRT at Xinjuang Station 捷運新莊站.
• Walk a few blocks toward the Xinbei City Government Sports Office 新莊體育館.
• Stop before you get there to buy dumplings 小籠包 off a little blue truck that has stacks of hot bamboo steamers.If you tell the guy you like them spicy, he'll be happy to make sure they're good and hot for you.
• When you get to the sports park sit on a couple of red plastic stools among the many rows that have been laid out on the grass in front of the outdoor stage between the baseball stadium and the track and field stadium.
• Eat your steaming hot, spicy dumplings!
• Chat with the little boy wearing the hoodie that zips over his face to become an instant Spiderman costume!
• Enjoy a lovely soprano from the Australia onstage singing light opera, pop and movie music in English and Italian.
• Help stack up the little red plastic stools on which you've all been sitting so they can be cleared away.
• Move around a bit to get a glimpse of five overly tall figures in white who are lined up way behind the now-standing-room-only audience.
• Share Herbert's Dream (check out a video of these folks performing elsewhere HERE).
• Revel in the mystery!
• Head back to the MRT.
• Transfer at Minquan and get off at Beitou.
• Walk home again.
• Split a tall beer poured into frosty glasses.
• Be amazed that you just got to watch a fantastic performance pretty much for free!
• Feel totally blessed. You are! :)