On our third day in Taiwan we were going to make our way to Hualien, but because we had a little bit of time before our train left Taipei Main Station we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to squeeze the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall into our schedule. We took the MRT to C.K.S. Memorial Hall station, which is super convinient because the hall is rig[...]
Last weekend there was a day-long power outage where we live... on a SUNDAY! (*ugh*) Thankfully the Okinawa Food Flea was happening the same day :) We left home extra early and arrived there at 11:30. We knew it started at noon but we went to the 2nd one around 3pm and it was absolutely crazy full. At 11:30 there was already tons of people arriving while the[...]
This month my husband re-enlisted for four more years in the Marine Corps!! I drove almost 2 hours to Camp Gonsalves Jungle Warfare Training Center where he worked and although it was the longest drive EVER, it was absolutely beautiful! I arrived at 8am in the morning and shortly after they had the formation. ^^ Speech, Speech, Speech! ^^[...]
The last stop of our first full day in Taiwan was Pingxi District, where we were planning on releasing a Sky Lantern. Pingxi is really close to Jiufen Old Street so we took the Pingxi Line from Riufang Station, apparently we got too excited and we exited the train too early, we ended up at Shifen Old Street instead. Both Pingxi and Shifen are known for the[...]
After visiting the Zoo we stopped at Taipei Main Station for lunch before heading to Jiufen Old Street and Pingxi Lantern City. We ate steamed dumplings, a variety of pork/honey/sweet dumplings that were absolutely amazing (we ended coming back for more)! Of course i couldn't go to Taiwan and not drink Milk Tea, we found a little tea/juice store called[...]
A couple of weekends ago we were looking for something to do, so i looked up my bucket list and decided it was finally time to eat delicious Hawaiian pancakes for brunch. We drove to Onna-son, stuffed ourselves and then we walked around the Yomitan Pottery Village. ^^ i am so in love with this sign!! It says "Hawaian Pankeki" in Japanese ^^[...]