There are so many huge gigantic beast malls everywhere and apparently Claire and Annie spend most of their lives there. We went to two Thursday. Here's what you do: start at the bottom and literally go to each of the 10+ floors and walk in a circle and look at weird clothes that are oddly overpriced and then do it again. It seems like no one is even buying anything, it's just a zombie-like ritual to stay cool. My feet are killing me from going to the mall. We did find some little popper toys and decided to take them into a bathroom and pop them. We thought there'd be a prize inside but instead the four of us together sounded like an explosion and we all ran out pretending like nothing happened. Leave it to the Americans to make their Chinese friends look crazy.
There was a Japanese market on the bottom floor pretty similar to little tokyos market except the size of whole foods. Alyssa got a ton of candy and I decided to try a little thing of sushi. My thought process was that market sushi in taiwan must be better than market sushi in LA because even though both aren't fresh, Japan is closer to Taiwan so the fish should have arrived first! ...it tasted like ralph's sushi. Oh well.
It started to rain while we were in the mall and we knew this because the mall actually announces it over loudspeakers. So we had to postpone our trip to a different night market and instead went and hung out at Claire's boyfriend's apartment. Ok, her boyfriend has been in Taichung 9 months studying Chinese. He is from Panama and they have to speak chunks of each language to have a convo. Alyssa and I actually had to ride in a taxi with him to the mall that morning because he had some errands to run. He is leaving to go home (should have left last night) and didn't even have a ticket yet? Plus he looked so Euro trashy and was kind of an asshole. But the best part was that he was carrying around a big gold bag with his dog inside.
We eventually had dinner at a place called pig house with good chicken. We had to teach the girls what Happy Ending meant since there was a huge sign on the wall. The place was good and apparently a secret since its down a really sketchy street off the main road that no one can find. But the place was reallly nice and well decorated. I was almost worried. Almost.
Anyway--- this day was pretty uneventful until the evening. Then the shit hit the fan and grew wings and attacked every living life form within 3 miles. I will keep it short and say that there is a reason I don't go to clubs. Bad things happen. Especially when you are the sober one. This place gave out round after round of free shots. In a matter of minutes everywhere was completely gone. Actually, the Chinese guys were all passed out. We took pictures. it was strange. I was sooo tired and still with my bad cold I've had all week so I didn't really enjoy the cigarrette smoke and fog machines destroying my healing throat. When we were walking in, the bouncer said Alyssa had to put one of her things in a locker outside, so she runs around the line waiting outside and steps onto a "tile walkway" which was actually just a designed waterway thing. So we was just standing there in the water yelling out my name like she was drowning or something. I almost passed out from laughing so hard and everyone must have thought she was insane. there. Annie had put alyssa'a bag of japanese candy and shoes into a locker and hadn't kept the key by accident. I paid 15 bucks to get a locker broken into to find her stuff but unfortunately we guessed the wrong locker so we still don't know where her stuff is. But who cares about that, on our way home in the taxi we realized alyssa's wallet wasn't there. After an hour of freaking out (everything was in it)... We found it and the world was right again. Now she's only forgotten her shoes and umbrella so she's getting a lot better! Just kidding.
We went to bed at 4:30am. We had woken up that morning at 6am. We were tired.
Oh, I tried uploading pictures to flickr but I couldn't stay awake to wait so hopefully the computers at the hotel in Saigon will work fine for it and not be too expensive!
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