So we woke up and took the subway to the end of the line to a city called danshui. Alyssa can't pronounce it for the life of her. The clouds made the view pretty terrible... Most pictures online are at sunset with beautiful colors and boats floating in the water. This kinda looked like the salton sea during the apocalypse. Instead of walking by the water we chose to wander around the streets and are glad we did because they had really fun shops and food stands. Our first drink we tried was a tea drink with jelly and these tapioca balls that looks like fish eggs. We thought that was weird so we went ahead and drank some. It was ok, nothing special. (Later we asked James what the drink was and he told us that those weren't tapioca balls, they were fish eggs. We were like whhhhhhhhhhhhhattttt?????! I mean, they tasted fine so whatever. Then LATER my Taichung friend Claire explained that they aren't actually frog eggs, they're pieces of passion fruit that look like eggs so they call it that. As long as there aren't baby tadpoles swimming inside me, I'm fine.)
We had to try one of the gigantic frozen yogurts they offer that range from maybe 8in to over a foot tall. Yah, all "That's What She Said" jokes aside, they weren't horrible. They don't use milk in them so it was rather strange. Plus they just looked... Awkward.... Especially when you saw couples walking around: the girl always had a small and the boys ALL had larges.
Then we shopped at some trinkety shops and bought some cute things. Taiwan admires Japan so they offer a lot of the same items or attempt to at least. OHHH then we found a purikura!!! (Can't remember the Chinese name, just Korean) and took supah cute pix!! For those who don't know its a photobooth where you can decorate the pictures after. We have some from Ktown and now have legit ones from Asia! That was fun especially since it was just like ktown- we couldn't read anything and the owner didn't speak english and just kept saying he liked our designs ahaha.
When we got back to the downtown area we wandered around their version of times square which personally wasn't that much fun. There was a big Harry Potter ad though, that was cool. We tried some noodles that weren't that great and went to another place where Alyssa got alfredo pasta! What a freak.
Then we headed back home for our afternoon nap so we would have enough energy for the night market. We went with Leslie who luckily got work off, and James met up with us. Since it was a Wednesday there weren't too many people so it was nice. Plus the weather is a bit cooler at night (not much). Oh we kept noticing people burning things outside their shops and found out its like ghost money for their ancestors. We just thought it was annoying because the ashes kept getting all in our faces.
Alyssa bought 100 things at the night market. Oh shoes run so small here they usually don't even have a 7 and a half for me! So sad. There were lots of people to watch and it was real funny when they'd see me and try to speak english.
Um my hand hurts. I really need to find a computer next time. Alyssa will fill you in on our first day in taichung. We should be able to upload pictures Saturday morning (Friday night for you people...)
PS... You'll know when Alyssa blogs because she writes like a FOB!
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