More Food & Fun, Aboriginal Village, & Zoo

After visiting the Taipei 101, we walked around the area. It is a little newer and there is shopping departments EVERYWHERE. They love shopping here. From the top of one building we saw a little park with a train and games. So we followed the walkways and let the kids play for a little.

Being Dorks...

this guy was very drunk and he said he was a taiwanese indian. so jo asked to take a picture with him and afterwards jo kept smelling the shoulder where the guy had his arm around and he was so mad that the guy rubbed his B.O. sweat on his shirt.

That night amanda's grandparents took us out for Teppanyaki. It was the best. I think they cooked us up every meat, seafood, vegetable possible. It's not as entertaining as Benihana's. They just cook up the food in front of you without a show but the food is delicious. We've been eating so much here but that was the first time that I actually started to hurt.

Monday we had a tour bus with a tour guide take us up to taichung area and we went to visit sun moon lake. we kept thinking they were saying summer lake but it was actually two lakes before and they named one sun and one moon. then i guess the combined into one lake. our first tour guides name was ni (knee) and he had some bad foaming at the corners of his mouth. very distracting but a very nice man and full of information.

then he took us to an aborginal village. they are considered the natives of taiwan. they had a lot of tribes and you could walk through the different villages. then if you went back to the entrance they had an amusement park. a really good amusement park with absolutely no people. you would walk up and be the only people riding on the rides. kinda weird considering the rides were pretty cool.

this man was carving this amazing statue






the guys shooting targets. my dad loved this part of the place

on tuesday the tour guide took us to the zoo right in the middle of taipei. it's huge and of course it would be the hottest day since we've been here.

now he fits in with the rest of the kids. it's a solar fan hat with shades you can push down. he suckered papa into buying it for him.


they were cleaning the macaque area. it smelled so bad there and we couldn't believe this guy was walking through the muck to collect them. macaque's can hold their breath for a really long time. one was swimming away from the guy and you could only see the pink parts of it.


we took this picture for em & trav






a couple places we went had these squatters. the first time i used it i realized i sat the wrong direction when i couldn't reach the toilet paper behind me. i think they are cleaner than toilet seats...just tricky.

it was very hot...poor ani