day 1 (wednesday).

we boarded the plane at 1.30am. me, meiling, yeeling and winnie. theresa was to join us at night, after her interview with nus. we were excited for our trip, so we didn't sleep at all throughout the whole flight. me, winnie and yeeling watched black swan on the plane! im a bit confused after watching it because i cannot differentiate which parts are hallucinations and which parts are not for the female lead. anyway, so we reached taoyuan airport 4 hours later. because we didn't sleep the whole night, by that time we were all really tired. on the bus, i can tell you what we did. sleep. yeah. lols.

first, we went to eat breakfast. it's the traditional breakfast that taiwanese eat. fan tuan and dan bing. we were really full so we shared the breakfast. the next stop is the National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. the weather is really good. it's the nice cooling spring weather. next we went to the Fisherman Wharf, the filming site of the popular tv drama series "meteor garden" (yup i copied this from the itinerary lol). by that time i was a bit pissed because when i got on the bus i will be so tired i would sleep, then after a while they would wake me up to go see some attraction. very tired lehs. disrupted sleep. :( so far we were just going to places to take pictures haha. i promise to edit the posts about taiwan with pictures okay? now i don't have all the pictures yet. oh, and the funny thing is, i found out my camera has run out of batt. yes, just on the first day of the trip. plus my batteries are in my luggage, so the whole day i didn't take any pictures. :p

next we went to Chiufen. this is the place where ruishan warned us it will be really cold. however, it wasn't cold, at least for us, maybe because that time when ruishan went it was raining? meiling even wore a sleeveless top out. so you can imagine the temperature there. it's the nice cooling weather. at Chiufen, we bought food back, like mua chee, jelly and etc. then we went to eat beef noodles that the tour guide recommended. i cannot describe how nice the noodles are, but i just want to say, they are really, really very nice! :D we ate it in a rush because we were running out of time, but it's so, so delicious! the noodles are handmade, and the beef is really tender, with little fats in between. the soup is the best part. it's cooked with herbs and it's not diluted at all. yum. i miss it. and i will not see beef noodles in the same way again. after that we bought drunken chicken back too.

the next stop is..(drum roll) the long awaited hot spring! <3 after changing into our swimsuits, we went to the hot spring. the water is really hot! right right winnie? hahas. because me and winnie kept screaming while going into the hot spring. i felt like im being burnt alive. hot hot. yeeling and meiling are used to bathing in warm water at home, so they were okay. even though i bathe with the heater on at home, the temperature is still not very high. after that, we changed to another pool, and the water is even hotter. i can see smoke coming out from the water. scary. after coming out from that one, yeeling's legs are red. lobster! :P :P after coming out from the hot spring, it's natural to feel a bit dizzy, tired and hungry. also, the hot spring water will make your blood circulate faster.

okay, the last stop of the day is the Yilan leisure farm. at first we were excited because we thought we can pluck fruits, but we were disappointed because it's not the season for harvesting fruits. awwww. :( in the end we just had a tour of the place, and the result is, mosquito bites everywhere. after putting our luggage in the room, we went out for dinner, then the long night of activities began. the people at the farm put up a performance, and taught us to make dumplings and top spinning. oh, about the dumplings part, after making the dumplings, they will cook them and people can eat them. however, we didn't dare to eat them because we don't even know the other people who made the dumplings got wash hands or not, and then they just pour everything into the big pot and cook them. if we are unlucky we might get the dirty ones omg. ew.

anyway, we became bored because they had a top spinning competition and they were taking a long time. we just went to the other side to play with the bubbles. there is this area where there is a big steel round thing where you can make bubbles with. okay, i don't know how to describe it. but we kept ourself entertained. :) after that, we wrote our wishes on the sky lantern and put them up in the sky! so fun! ours flew really high. higher than the others. ^^ finally the day ended. we went back to our rooms to bathe. me and meiling were in one room while yeeling and winnie were in the other. there were a lot of bugs in our (me and meiling's) room! i killed one and yeeling helped us kill the other one. oh, then the four of us ate the drunken chicken. it's cold. i mean, it's supposed to be like that. then there are a lot of fats. it taste okay la. just as we were about to sleep, me and meiling found a butterfly in our room. .. no, relax we didn't kill it.