Which considering my desire to get home in a few days, that's fine by me. I'm sure we'll have other Typhoons to experience in the next 15 months. As for the common question "what do you do for a Typhoon in Taiwan" that I've heard a lot this week.... guess we'll have to wait a while.
So back to this past weekend..... Joys and his family picked me up from the "Honeymoon hotel room" that I had (Kingsized bed, blue mood lights, circle couch, hottub, shower with massager) and we headed into the mountains for the day. I only knew that we'd see mountains that day. They didn't tell me anything else.
On our path upwards, we stopped by Sun Moon Lake. This is famous all over Taiwan and honestly, as beautiful as an area as I've seen in a while. The reason for the name is that the lake used to have a shape that half of it looked like a sun, half of it looked like a moon. Then there was a big earthquake that messed it all up, but i guess you can still kind of see that thought process. But it was very peaceful up there. There are yearly opportunities to swim across it, or bike/run around it.... the hotels in that area are some of the most expensive ones on the island though ($300 US a night!).
Onward we went - as we climbed the mountain, we pulled into a parking lot. I looked up and saw a UFO ride and realized we had come to an amusement park in the middle of the mountains. It was very much unexpected, but a LOT of fun! There were water rides (no lines at all all day), rollercoasters, fair food, shops, shows with singing/dancing.... imagine Adventureland but in the mountains, and a lot more fun! haha - have to throw in the Adventureland references now and then.
The park was not overly busy (which is my usual complaint of six-flags, etc.) and the hot sun was offset by a nice breeze in the mountains. The view was magnificent, even as the water coaster rolled backwards with the only thing we could see was the mountains and trees below. The kids loved it of course, and I had a great time too. Enjoy the pictures!
So it's late and I was distracted with work for a while so I'm behind on my blog and late to get to bed. Follow along with the pictures, you'll figure it out!
I'm headed home in about 48 hours.... can you believe it?
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