Day 5 [ Taipei ] : Higher & Higher
Just when I thought I was making progress with my wakeup time, i'm bright eyed at 5:30am. I gave in and decided to be productive and add some pictures to the journal.
Ate a traditional Chinese lunch here at the house with Geoffs Uncle Moses & Auntie Allen. The have have been very cool to take us out for most meals and let us crash here. Their english is good and I feel right at home. All except for the part where I keep having to take off my shoes every time I come back. The slippers provided for me are not wide enough for my feet. They fit over the tips of my fat feet and that's about all.
We head out for the day to tackle the observatory deck of the Taipei 101 building. When completed it reached into the sky at 1666 feet and is now the tallest building in the world with the fastest elevator to match. Who could resist a walk in the clouds. Well that's almost what it was like because the weather had turned bad and a thick cover had rolled in. Although I would have liked to have seen further, the view was still amazing and I could have stayed all day. We dropped like rocks in the elevator and split to the food court and then back to the house.
Pouring and pouring again but this time we are prepared for the long walk back in the rain.
Disposable yellow rain ponchos! They cost $20 NT ($0.62). Cheap enough to wonder...
Why did we not clue into this earlier?
Back at the house for a last dinner out.
Eating has become a big part of our time here in Taiwan.
Almost like an endurance test. Actually, I'm full right now.
We changed some money here at the house with Auntie Allen instead of at the airport. The family gave us a much better exchange rate. We are now we are flush with stacks of Chinese bills. Kinda makes me want to find a craps table.
Do they have that in Shanghai? I'll have to brush up on Majong if I want any sort of 'action'.
We're going to grab last drinks at a place called Underworld then hit the sack. We leave for Shanghai at 6:50am. Maybe it's good I wasn't waking up at 10am after all.
Internet might be dodgy in China so I might not post for a few.
Ate a traditional Chinese lunch here at the house with Geoffs Uncle Moses & Auntie Allen. The have have been very cool to take us out for most meals and let us crash here. Their english is good and I feel right at home. All except for the part where I keep having to take off my shoes every time I come back. The slippers provided for me are not wide enough for my feet. They fit over the tips of my fat feet and that's about all.
We head out for the day to tackle the observatory deck of the Taipei 101 building. When completed it reached into the sky at 1666 feet and is now the tallest building in the world with the fastest elevator to match. Who could resist a walk in the clouds. Well that's almost what it was like because the weather had turned bad and a thick cover had rolled in. Although I would have liked to have seen further, the view was still amazing and I could have stayed all day. We dropped like rocks in the elevator and split to the food court and then back to the house.
Pouring and pouring again but this time we are prepared for the long walk back in the rain.
Disposable yellow rain ponchos! They cost $20 NT ($0.62). Cheap enough to wonder...
Why did we not clue into this earlier?
Back at the house for a last dinner out.
Eating has become a big part of our time here in Taiwan.
Almost like an endurance test. Actually, I'm full right now.
We changed some money here at the house with Auntie Allen instead of at the airport. The family gave us a much better exchange rate. We are now we are flush with stacks of Chinese bills. Kinda makes me want to find a craps table.
Do they have that in Shanghai? I'll have to brush up on Majong if I want any sort of 'action'.
We're going to grab last drinks at a place called Underworld then hit the sack. We leave for Shanghai at 6:50am. Maybe it's good I wasn't waking up at 10am after all.
Internet might be dodgy in China so I might not post for a few.
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