We had hardly any internet connect the past three days so today I am going to try to catch up on my blog ☺.On Sunday we went to the Taipei 101 tower and took the super fast elevator to the 88th floor in 40 seconds. We saw the big damper and kept the building from swaying when the wind gusts. We also went to the observation deck, which is surprisingly not as creepy as i thought it would be. The security guard yelled at Fatima when she stuck her camera out the guardrails. We ate lunch at the food court at the Taipei 101and I had an oyster omelet. That was an experience! It was very slimy and gooey and weird; I was not a fan. Afterwards we went the National Palace museum. The museum was absolutely beautiful and the scenery was amazing! Next we took the bus to the Shilin Night market. Words cannot describe how out of control everything was. The amount of people, the lights, the sounds and the smells were overwhelming. I tried stinky tofu and a piece of squid. Stinky tofu is extremely stinky! It made me nauseous just walking by it. It didn’t taste as bad as it smelled and it was ok until I tried to swallow it. It was difficult to get it down. We all went to the shops and walked around for a while. Fatima and I got misdirected (or lost what ever you want to call it). We kept walking back and forth down the streets trying to find anyone who looked familiar and when we though all was lost we ran into Monzir, Suyash, Ellina and My. Suyash parted ways with Rob and the rest of us tried to find our way out of the market. We finally did get out and took the subway back to the hostel. This is when we got lost again. We got off at the right station but we got off the wrong platform. We took #5 instead of #1 or 2. While we were lost we saw the CKS memorial and the president’s residence. We just walked and walked and we ran into a saintly lady who actually walked us to our street even though it was in the opposite direction she was headed. It should of taken us about 5 minutes to get home from the station but it actually took us about 45 minutes. If I was to get lost in any city this is one was a good one. It is very safe and the people are extremely friendly. Since we’ve been in Taiwan I haven’t seen anyone get irritated at each other, which is nice! Everyone goes with the flow, if you bump into someone they brush it off, it’s very relaxed. I am loving Taiwan so far!!
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