On the 5th night, we checked in a different hotel in Taipei, which was for the following 2 nights. We found that it was worse than the last one. It was also in 西门订, a little further from the shopping area but still very accessible. However, for this hotel, not only was it without the usual wardrobe and writing desk, it was windowless and only as big as our bedroom back home. Furthermore, part of the room was converted into a bathroom! On top of that, there was no bathtub. Boo. There was literally no space to walk. I just had to comfort ourselves that it was only for 2 nights. I didn't sleep well on the 1st night. I kept waking up and had many weird dreams. Bleh...
We didn't have to wake up at any specific time. We woke up, got ready and headed out to find bfast. We had wanted to have MacDonalds but couldn't locate it and settled for some traditional bfast that we came by. We were told that it would be a cold day, some cold current would come by Taipei and it would also be drizzling. It was spot on. It was very, very cold. We piled the kids with whatever clothes that we could.
After bfast, we took the MRT to 淡水. The kids were generally well behaved on the train. Thus, the ride was reasonably smooth. It actually felt shorter than 40 mins.
It was drizzling when we arrived in 淡水. Fortunately, it was light enough to walk around without a brolly. There were so many things to eat in 淡水 and these food stalls line the street. Yummy! Mummy bought some sotong balls and fried prawn roll the moment we arrived at the 老街. It was fantastic to eat hot food on a cold day.
Many of the vendors told us that the kids were dressed too thinly. It was probably true. Other than ours, every other kid seems to be dressed for winter. Ours merely had a thin jacket on top of their long sleeves.
Fortunately, we came across some shops selling thick children clothes and we bought enough to last them for the next 2 days. To begin with, mummy didn't bring that many clothes, believing that we would do shopping. Additionally, mummy threw away quite many pieces that we brought to Taiwan. Some of the pieces, especially jiejie's, were so small that she didn't get to wear them in Taiwan and we had to throw away. Well, we don't usually wear long sleeves in Singapore. The last time that we worn those were to Genting and that was some months back. Mummy merely dug them out from the cupboard and into the luggages, without getting Lil Shauna to try them on.
In one of the shops, there was an old fat dog that entertained the kids while mummy plough through the thick pile of clothes.
There were plenty of games for little children in 淡水. The kids were thrilled. After a few rounds, we realised that it didn't matter how good or bad the kids scored in the games. They all ended up with some toys. That is to say, we basically paid for the kids to play at the machines and for some lousy toys. Regardless, the kids had fun at the machines and were even happier to receive the presents and I think that is good enough.
We had lunch at MacDonalds. We decided to find familiar food sine we were on our own.
These were taken by Lil Shauna.
We also found this cute shop that made some biscuits in Hello Kitty mould. We would have stayed longer and bought something if it wasn't the fact that Lil Isaac was sleepy and grouchy.
We left 淡水 at about 3pm and Lil Isaac napped on the way back.
We did more shopping when we were back in 西门订. There weren't not many stuff for kids. We then had dinner and headed back to hotel for an early night.
We were only left with 1 day in Taiwan. I like Taiwan. I was telling Daddy Lim that we should come back next year and also that we should retire in Taiwan when we are old. Lol.
Mummy Lim
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