Thursday, December 3, 2009

Family Trip to Taiwan 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2009 (Day 1)

I had been waiting for this trip for so many months... Finally it had arrived... We woke up very early today at 4.30 am to get ready to the airport as we need to leave home by 5.30 am & reach the airport by 6 am for the check in. I like to feeling to be taking taxi to the airport while the sky are dark & everyone was sleeping. :)

We are in the departing hall walking around & buying yiyi's things for her. Take some photos to start off with.....


Greeting with the the bright sunflower in the early morning make u happy too. :)


Orchid as well..


Of cos we must take with the orchid as well..


Mummy is calling yiyi while I am calling mama....


Here we are to our gate....


We have finally step into Taiwan after 6 hrs of flight


1 hr plus of waiting & travelling to the hotel that we can finally check in. By the time we reach our hotel it was already evening time.. The weather was cold.

1st nite dinner at 西门丁 at the cafe called 啊毛hotstone
with Mummy

See the decor inside the cafe was so cute..

with 啊毛the owner of the shop.. haha...

After our 1st dinner in Taipei, we had a walk at the streets of 西门丁.
Here I am having my stationery shopping, my fav....


We also tried their 锋密苦瓜汁, the 1st taste was very bitter, ah tia & myself dun like it only mummy who is a bitterground lover like it. Of cos, it our 1st time to see the white bitterground.


Here we are at the cross junction of 西门丁.
Closer look at us... :P

This 夜市 is the 1 that is nearest to our hotel,寧夏夜市 we walked there...


Since we are there as listen to yiyi's instuction, we tried 1 disg each at 1 store..
Here I am eating their fried oyster, it''s very yummy & different from Singapore style...
Guess wat I am putting into my mouth... Unbelieveable.... 臭豆腐, its smelly but taste nice & I finished 1 piece of it. :)

Family Trip to Taiwan 30 Nov - 3 Dec 09 (Day 2)

Today we are going for a free city tour.. To make use of the time today whenever I am on the coach while the tour guide was talking, I will sleep.. muhaha... That's me on holiday, making use of all the time to play, eat & sleep!

Some photo taken while we travelled on the coach...


Here we are at the 1st stop of the day...
At the entrance


So this is the place, if you cant read chinese too bad cos I duno how to translate that to english... :P


It's very cold today...


The flowers look so colourful & bright on a cold morning. :)


Here are the photos that we took during our half an hr stay...




Look at my face will know that I am still feeling sleepy...

It's really cold....

Finally photo of the building b4 we leave this place...


Next stop to see the soldier exchange shift at 10 am...
Inside this building are all the brave soldier who died in the war while protecting their country
See mummy is busy taking photos..



Parade of the soldiers exchanging their shift, they will be standing still for an hr while they are on duty.


Marching out

Finally they had completed the changing shift, these are the new on duty guard.


Take a photo with him.... He looks scary & we are not allow to touch him... Wat if we touch him accidently, will he attack us ?????


More photos of the surrounding...




Here will be all the brave soldier resting in peace....


Last 2 photos taken b4 we left the place.


Went to a tourist shop selling joyal jelly & lingzhi which is open by the mao zhu princess, this is how the princess look like....


While waiting for the coach to arrive...


We went to 九芬, here is the long streets of 九芬, here we buy a lots of the tawian goodies, such as the charcoal peanut, taiwan jelly etc.. We also had our quick lunch here...
Here we go, just follow mummy...

In this cold weather, a HOT hotdog is the best! Their hotdog is big & long, so different from ours in Singapore & having so many types.... Yummi.... :P


This is mummy with her hotdog but she didnt eat much as it was ordered by Ah tai.. Haha...


This is the popular store where they sell the yam ball, its very nice & image us taking it cold in such a cold weather.


Here it goes into mummy's mouth... Haha.. into mine & ah tia as well... :P


Walking towards the end of the busy street, u will see the nice scenary of 九芬 with mountains & the sea.



& the sky of 九芬


With us with the mountains & sea...



Walking out of the streets....


with our back


We have reached 野柳, 1st we have seen the mountain....


While waiting for the tour guide to but entrance tickets for us, we had a few shot at the entrance
It''s really cold today, look at mummy....

See the 女王头 behind us, we are here to 野柳 to see this rock that is so popular, we had a family photo with 女王头 but was accidently deleted by mummy & luckily we still have this photo.


The water flow of the sea.....





The mountain & rocks around.....

It's very cold when the wind blow.....

Someone is fishing...


The trees....


The statue of the 女王头


Finally, we had completed the water & the stone, here we are to the goodies street...


Some water performance inside while we are waiting for our coach


The last stop of the day for the free city tour will be at Shilinyeshi, we had our dinner here & of cos not 4getting the 鸡扒 from this stall highly recommanded by 姨姨.


It was a tiring 1 day free city tour for us & of cos we continue our 买东西,吃东西 from here again... :)
 
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