Taiwan Day 5

We left for bfast at 8.30am. It wasn't tough to wake up early since we had an early night. The guide brought us for hualian's famous 小笼包. They were juicy and very cheap. Even Lil Shauna enjoyed them. It only cost TWD5 per bun! That is like SGD0.20 each! 

After bfast, we headed to the Ocean Park in Hualian. The guide said that he had heard great reviews about the place and we had high hopes.

We were the 1st few visitors to enter the park at 9.30am. We are not sure if it was bcos it was a Wednesday or it is generally deserted. There was no crowd. Then, we also realised that the park is pretty small, like a quarter of the Ocean Park in HKG. 

The casts of the Park greeted us and Lil Shauna was so happy, hugging and taking pictures. Lil Isaac wouldn't go anywhere near them. It was an accomplishment that he was willing to hi5 one of them.

He always prefer to take picture with stationary icon.

Daddy Lim saw this and asked for a picture. Where is my gum gum, dum dum?

We caught the sealion show and it was great.

This is one the only picture with just the 2 of us, taken while waiting for the show to start. We were the green team that day. Haha.

Then, we visited the aquarium and it was beautiful.

The park is built on some kind of slope beside the seaside. We took the cable car to the top part of the park where the rides were. The park attendants were giving out free balloons. I somehow think that they were quite free and spent their free time making balloons.

There aren't many rides and most of them are "boring" in Lil Shauna's perspective. The only exciting ones are the roller coaster and some spinning shell ride. Lil Isaac rode both the exciting rides. We went on the roller coast like 6x and the shell 3x.

There is this very interesting kiddy ride though. For TWD30, the kids get to operate the robots.

This is how the park looks like from the top, very, very nice view.

Then Lil Shauna and me decided to hide in a clam and Lil Isaac was protecting us. Lol.

We saw the casts again in the afternoon and we took more pictures. This time, Lil Isaac agreed to be in the pictures, though a little reluctant.

We left the park at 2ish. knew that the ride back would be long. The guide said that it would take about 3.5hours. So our plan was to let Lil Isaac napped in the car for as long as possible. We figured that it would be easier to handle only one kid in the car.

Lil Isaac took about a 2-hour nap in the car and we took the same 山路 back to Taipei. Lil Shauna complained about being bored, as expected. The guide then put on "Monster Inc" for her, which may not be the best choice. Watching in the dark and the winding roads proved to be a bad combination. Towards the end of the movie, Lil Shauna complained about motion sickness. We even had to stop by the road side for some fresh air. Fortunately, she felt better after some rest.

The guide brought us to a restaurant in Taipei for very nice beef noodles. Or maybe bcos we were very hungry, the noodles tasted exceptionally delicious. Even the 水饺 tasted great. Lol.

Our last destination of the day was to buy 土产 before going back to the hotel. We spent almost TWD 5,000 on 土产, there seemed to be so many people that we need to buy for. Finally, it was home sweet home.

That was also the last day with the guide. The next 2 days, we would be on our own. The guide also arranged for a colleague to pick us from the hotel to the airport on the last day.

Mummy Lim