Taiwan Day 5
Penguin January 10th, 2009
My 6th aunt, uncle, Round and Clock went back to Hsinchu and dropped off my mom and I in Taipei. It was so much warmer here. This was the sort of weather I had packed for.
My mom went to visit her friend. While they chatted, I played NDS.
We got a chance to ride the Taipei metro system which was pretty nice and really well designed. Everything was color coded and had both Chinese and English on all the signs. There were also plenty of digital signs to light the way.
Afterwards, we went to Taipei 101, the world’s tallest skyscraper. We went to the food court downstairs for lunch.
We went up to the observatory deck to look around.
Then we came down and went shopping. Now that it was warmer, I didn’t have much need for clothes. It was also hard to shop with my mom in tow. It’s been so long since I’ve been shopping, I pretty much forgot what I was doing. I still knew what I liked, but I didn’t know what I wanted. This made shopping really difficult.
We had tons of time to kill before our train back to Hsinchu. So we went to Eslite Bookstore to find some seats. My feet were killing me. I was so excited when I found a free public internet station. My feet could stand a few more minutes so I could check my mail.
We sat around a bit before deciding to head back. I suggested we try to change the time of our train. We were able to get a half hour earlier trip.
For dinner, we stopped by 7 Eleven to pick up some pork bun and what I thought was water. I ended up being this other thing that was sweet and tangy, which wouldn’t have been so bad had I not been expecting water.
The high speed rail is really fast.
We got back to my 6th aunt’s place and I was really happy to have real internet.
-Penguin
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