I have been meaning to post stories about my trip, but life just kept getting in the way! Boo. I can't sleep right now, so I decided to update. :)
Taiwan Day 1!
I went there with my family - my mom, dad and brother. It was only an hour and 50mins flight from the Philippines to there. I loved the flight, not only because it was a fast, seamless and short one, but also because of the teeny tiny fact that the pilot's last name was Silva. Yes, Silva. I absolutely freaked out and my mind went haywire for obvious reasons. And as Gina said, that was some serious fate working there...
Anyway, as we landed and got our luggage, we boarded the Airport Bus and went to our hotel. We stayed at Delight Hotel in Taipei. It was really nice! It was so homey, my room was so spacious, the bathroom was big and the best parts - it had a spa shower and whirlpool jacuzzi in it! Here are pics:
The whirlpool jacuzzi and a lounge chair
The shower with the jet stream water spa thingies
The rest of the bathroom
So after we had lunch, we strolled around for a bit and found this cool drink shop. I really love those, I always, always order milk tea. This time, I ordered it with custard.
We found some awesome street food too! I picked this one, and chose the spicy, peppery, garlicky grilled squid. It was goooood.
And then an interesting thing happened! While the man was grilling my squid, a siren suddenly blared, and all the carts on the street turned off their lights, motors, stoves, etc, and ran away. Literally ran away. They hid their carts and they were nowhere to be found. Turned out that it was illegal for them to sell there, and the one who blared the siren was a cop on a motorbike doing his rounds. Once he left, the carts came back, the man finished grilling my squid, gave it immediately, accepted our payment even if it was still short by a couple of dollars and hurriedly shooed us away. *shrugs* We went away quickly too, we didn't want to get caught by the police lol.
More walking around, then resting for a bit in the square. I took the time to practice my photography skills. I wanted to catch bright lights from the vehicles and turn them into different bright colored lines with a clear object at the back. I think I took a hundred shots trying to get the effect that I wanted, lol! I was in between successful and not. Er, I dunno. You be the judge. Here are the best pics, imo:
Before we headed out to Shilin Night Market, I found *drumroll please* COLDSTONE ICE CREAM! :) I've discovered this wonderful ice cream shop back in New York, and I have been craving for it for so long! I was so happy to find it there. I ordered the Cookie Doughnt You Want Some sundae, which is French Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge, caramel syrup, chocolate chips and cookie dough smooshed in it. YUMMMMMY. It was pure heaven.
We went to Shilin Night Market after that.
I only took one picture cos there were so many people and I had to store the camera away for safety. I shopped for some tights, leggings and shoes. :) We headed back to our hotel after that loooong and eventful, and fun day.
Taiwan Day 2 will be posted soon. :) And I would like to leave this pic in honor of the hubby who played well while I was away. :)
3 comments:
When we weere in Italy, there were vendors on the streets selling knockoffs, and when cops would roll around you would all of a sudden see them all dive for their stuff wrap it up and stand there holiding it until the cops went away.
Looks like somebody had fun!!Now in jealous,I want vacation LOL and I should try updating my blog cause I havent written anything in ages!!
Sounds like you had a great and busy time :) Your room looks really nice and the bed is huuugggge!!
Bit confused why you would put CUSTARD in a drink?! That is really odd an eugh to me LOL. The traffic pictures are cool though, all I use my camera for is drunken pictures of myself and Xabi stalking when I go to matches.
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