Taipei

On the 28^th of March, I got off the airplane at Taipei, Taiwan. The first thing that hit me was that Taiwan was as hot as a volcano. The second thing that I realized was that I was still Nauseous. I had a big lunch right before the plane ride, and the plane ride made me nauseous. After my parents collected the luggage, we went outside and got a taxi. After what seemed like hours, we finally arrived at a hotel called Regent. It was a grand hotel with a big plaza in the middle.

In the afternoon, we went to Taipei 101, an important landmark in Taiwan. The tower was extremely high and I couldn’t even see the top. We entered a building a block away from the tower and I met my aunt, uncle, cousin, grandma and grandpa. We had dinner there. After that, we went back to our hotels. On our way back to the hotel, we went pass a garden that had a lot of colorful flowers. My brother wanted to hide and seek there so we did. However, since my little brother is my little brother, he couldn’t find me and we ran out of time so we went to the hotel.

The next day was really really good and bad. In the morning, we went to the Oceanside on a metro. We rented a bicycle and met my aunt and uncle on the way. For lunch, we ate at a fancy Oceanside restaurant. The view was beautiful. You can see the whole sky and ocean. The food there was also impressive. The extremely bad part of the day was at noon.

My parent and grandparents wanted to eat at the food street. The food street is a basically a street where a lot of locals sell food. It took about half an hour to get there and as the temperature was extremely hot, I got extremely annoyed. I was pretty much whining the whole time. Even when my mom bought ice-cold water, it still couldn’t fix my tantrum. Since my little brother is also whiny, he managed to convince my dad to let me, my brother and him to eat a McDonalds while my mom and grandparents ate at the food street.

On the next day, we had a 2-hour car ride to the mountains. We stayed at a hotel called- ‘The Old England’. The Old England hotel was a hotel that impressed me. It was on a high mountain. Everything there, the rooms, the garden, the corridors, it was all suppose to be just like 20^th century. The room contained lots of complimentary treats, like fruit candy and others. It might not have been big, but it looked antique like a 20^th century household. The area of the hotel was quite small. Most of the place was filled with decorations. In the room, if you look out the balcony, you can see the whole mountainside. The air is fresh and the view is perfect.

I can say that Taipei is a wonderful place to be.

Rick