I had a fun-filled New Year's weekend and the pictures above are from the weekend. First picture is Taipei 101 for New Years, second picture is most of us at a park in Taichong, and last picture is me pretending to be flying on a boat on Sun Moon Lake lol
Friday night I went with my coworkers to Taipei 101 to see the firework display. It was crazy getting there since there were so many people that were traveling downtown. It took us a couple of hours when we finally sat down at Neo 19's parking lot which is close to Taipei 101. The firework show was awesome and it was even special this year because it was Taiwan's birthday of being 100 years old. My coworkers and I were even more excited since there was a 3-D dragon in the show. After the show it took forever to get out since so many people were trying to go home. Drew and I went out to the bars and stay up until 5am. We were just dancing and what not but the problem was that our alarm clock didn't go off and we overslept the next day.
We always work Sats. and we even didn't get Christmas off. But we got New Year's off and since it was a Sat. and we don't work Sun., my coworker planned a trip to go to Taichong and Sun Moon Lake. We left Sat. morning and she texted us just telling us about how excited she's getting for the trip and that was our wakeup call lol Since we overslept we hurriedly packed in about 10 mins. We took a bus to Taichong and we ate lunch, went to a park, got some bubble tea, and went to the night markets. Taichong is where bubble tea was where it was originated so we went to the restaurant that had the best "bubble tea." It cost $120NT when usually it would cost $30NT. It was extremely delicious though. Then we went to Fengjia night market which is 10x bigger than Shilin night market. It was so crowded and packed since we went on a Sat. night but they had such great food and it was huge. There were so many streets to look at and they had more food stands than clothing stores. It was so crowded that we could barely move and sometimes we had to hold hands lol
The next morning we went to Sun Moon Lake and first we went on a boat tour around the lake, rented bikes, saw a temple,went on a bike scenic route (which we first went on the road which was really tough and the second route was much easier), rode the cable cars, had dinner, and lastly took the high speed rail to get home. The high speed rail is newly built and it's really fast as it only took us 1 hr to get from Taichong to Taipei. It took us 3 hrs by bus when we left Taipei to Taichong Sat. morning.
It was a busy fun weekend and I'm extremely tired and a little sore from the bike ride and walking. It was definitely a great start to the new year!
-Chihchat
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