Sunday, December 17, 2017

Taiwan Day 1 Part 1: Arrival and Taichung Rainbow Village

Our flight was at 12.55am. We were waiting for the gate to open at 12.10am and the boy has almost gone to lala land.
Lil Shauna was still reading her book.
It was a miracle that the boy was willing to walk to the plane when it was time to board. The moment we found our seat, he was back in slumberland. He slept the entire flight but stirred quite a fair bit; he has grown too big to sleep comfortably on the plane.

We paid more to select seats with more leg space this round. It was the right choice and we were much more comfortable but sleep was still tough. I couldn't find the right posture to enter lala land. Sob. Bcos it was 3-3 configuration, Zaky and I sat behind Daddy Lim and Lil Shauna.

Finally at 5ish, we were in Taiwan. It was 19 degree celsius. Woohoo! The driver had warned us the night before to pack warmly bcos a 寒流 was hitting Taiwan. Cold... I like.

The kids were half awake while we made our way to the immigration.


The immigration was super pack with huge tour groups from Thailand and Vietnam. Soon, the kids were getting restless. Zaky even fell asleep.
He really dozed off and drew so many smiles. He was really so funny. I had to held his head bcos he was falling off.

After almost an hour wait, we finally made it past the immigration. It was almost 7am and we started running for the bus for 台中. We had wanted to take the HSR originally and that would take 1 hr but chose the bus instead (2 hrs), so that we could catch some rest.

Fortunately, there was a bus at 7.35am. We had just enough time to grab some food from the 7-11.
I don't quite know what happened along the way bcos I slept almost throughout to make it up for the miserable night. I wasn't the only one. Hohoho.

We set the alarm for 1.5hr later to make sure we alighted at the right stop. We were to meet the driver at the 朝马 stop. That was the 1st stop when we entered 台中. We made it alright and our driver was already waiting for us.

黄师傅 would be with us for the next 2 days. The 1st stop definitely had to be bfast.
Then, we headed to the Rainbow Village, which is a short drive away.

The Rainbow Village is basically made up of a few short houses. A grandpa who lives there started painting the houses in colors and soon attracted huge groups of people to visit the houses. Grandpa is 94 YO now.





There was a small playground beside the village and the kids were more interested in the playground than the village. Zzzz..
We spent less than 30 mins at the Rainbow Village and left.

Mummy Lim

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