Taiwan Day 3
Penguin January 8th, 2009
It managed to be colder today than yesterday. My uncle lent me one of his jackets which was much better than my North Face shell, but it didn’t have much of a neck. I wish I had one of the scarves Ninja knit me.
We drove about an hour to this mountain preserve. I managed to fall asleep on the ride up.
When we got there, we stopped off to use the bathrooom. There, I ran into Grace and Newman. What a small world, that I would run into people I know from America half way around the world in this little remote area of Taiwan.
We walked a bit to see a lake and some trees. Then we saw more trees. I did manage to bond with my cousins Smell and Hans a bit in our boredom.
For lunch, we went to this little tea shop half way down the mountain. While we waited for lunch to be prepared, we sat and sampled some “award winning” tea. The tea competition was from this area, so although special, not as special as, say, a Taiwan comp.
The tea was good, but I cared more about the warmth it would bring me as I drank it.
Lunch was good. Everything was cooked either in tea or had tea leaves in it. Some of it, you could really notice the tea flavor which was nice. Others, you couldn’t notice it at all.
After lunch, we went to try some more tea. I had to stop by the bathroom to drop a deuce. I had the choice between a stall with a regular toilet, but there was a sign on the door and a stall with a squat toilet. I didn’t know what the sign meant, so I chose the regular. I dropped my deuce and when I went to flush, discovered there wasn’t any water. I realized that the sign meant it was out of order. I felt really bad and decided to run away in shame.
Next, we stopped by a tea farm where there were little tents to let you try the tea. We were pretty high up and could see a good deal. Again, not very exciting.
When we got home, I was too tired to even off load pictures. Not that I had many. But I jumped in bed to try and sleep it off. I didn’t sleep much and got up for dinner. I realized I had a cold. I popped some Tylenol, put on my iPod and went to sleep.
-Penguin
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