Our hotel room didn't have a window as per our last year's Taipei hotel. It has 2 double beds and a single bed and definitely more spacious as compared to last year. However, our room has a really sucky plumbing system and the toilet bowl choked when Lil Shauna poo pooed. The cleaning auntie had to help us to clear the choke and since then, the adults opted to use the hotel's common toilet when we needed to make big business. Haha.
We met Tony on time and set off to Yilan. Yilan is about 1 hr ride from Taipei. We didn't visit Yilan last year but heard good reviews from my brother's family. We didn't do homework (but should have) and had to leave it to Tony to plan our itinerary for us.
We visited the King Car whiskey making factory. King Car is a major food manufacturer in Taiwan. The kids (and the most of the adults, including me) were super bored. We aren't sightseeing lot, especially when none of us are serious liqor drinker. Lol.
Then we visited this flower shop that is also under King Car. It wasn't interesting when not many of us have green fingers. We had to hint Tony to leave and I was secretly worried about where Tony would bring us next.
Tony dropped us at the Yilan Cultural Village next. Thinking that it was another of those small attractions, we only brought along the stroller, not our water or even the kids' jacket. Luckily, it wasn't a cold day and only started to drizzle towards the end of our trip.
The village isnt huge but there were a few cultural shows, cultural crafts to DIY and of course things and food to buy. And when that is the case, we will have very happy Popos. The yummies were very interesting. Mainly traditional food that we do not usually find in Taiwan. As a result, our mouths never seem to stop eating.
Lil Shauna enjoyed the show very much despite not understanding at all bcos the casts were all speaking in Hokkien and occasional Mandarin. Auntie S had to retell the story after the show. Lol.
The kids then DIY some photo frame using Mosiac. We also ended up buying plenty of small duno-whats, which kept the kids very happy. The Popos self help themselves to the plentiful food samples and also bought home quite some.
Tony suggested that we headed to coffee castle on top of mountain for coffee. We weren't exactly keen but obliged when he said that it was too early for hot spring and there isn't anything much else to do in between. OK lor... We had to take this winding and narrow path onto the mountain and there were cars coming down while we were making our way up. It was a dangerous ride. The view on the way up was fabulous.
It was supposed to be even more fantastic from the top but it was rainy and too dark to see much. Daddy Lim managed to snap this picture before the sun set. The coffee wasn't fantastic. I still like Singapore coffee better. Lol.
We went down the mountain and headed to the hot spring. The original intention was for Popo to wait for us while we enjoyed the hot spring. However, the other Popo jio-ed her and our Popo eventually did join us for the hot spring! The only down was that we had to buy her a swim suit, which was fairly expensive and I think it will only be worn once in a life time. Lol.
Hot spring comes in multiple pools and one of the pools has a big slide and basketball loops. The kids had great fun and they went down the slides countless times. The Popos also had a great time soaking in the hot water.
We left at 8pm for dinner and Tony brought us to eat famous 冬粉 at this particular stall. It was still raining then.
We had intended to head back to Taipei as late as possible to miss the traffic. Surprisingly, the traffic was still heavy at 9pm and it took us over an hour to get back to the hotel. Lil Isaac was still energetic having taken an afternoon nap and was disappointed to have to miss the night market for his games given the heavy downpour.
Mummy Ljm
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