Touring, Day 3

Today was a slow day, touring-wise. Jeremy had to do some work in the hotel room so, despite us waking up at about 5:30 and not really getting back to sleep, we stayed at the hotel until around 2:00 when we left to go to the National Palace Museum.

To the left is the view from our window at The Landis Hotel. We tried to take a picture of the building last night on our way back from the Bubble Tea shop, but it was a bit too dark and you can't really see the building in the picture. But we'll be going back to the bubble tea shop, so I'm sure we'll have ample opportunity to take another shot during the daytime!


The National Palace Museum is an incredible collection of the treasures of Imperial China. We were not able to take pictures inside the museum, so this shot of the outside is about as good as it gets for a tourism review. We met up with one of my college lab partners and his wife and son for this leg of our Taiwan trip. He is working about 20 minutes south of Taiwan for this year, so we were very lucky to be able to visit with them a bit. We took an English tour, although we had to cut out a bit early in order to meet Fion and because their son (2 years old) was about done sleeping in their arms for the afternoon.

Yesterday Fion promised to bring us to a good dim sum restaurant for dumplings (hmmm... bubble tea, dumplings... anyone sensing a theme here??), so she dropped us off at this restaurant after the National Palace Museum. As soon as we got out of the car, we were told, "This is the most famous dim sum restaurant in Taipei!" It was VERY good. I'm sure I'll be back in Ohio in a week or two craving an order of dumplings!

And now... we get ready to go get Eliana tomorrow morning. We have all our clothes set out and our diaper bag packed (and an extra backpack with the stuff that I'm not sure we really need, but could need and I don't want to be an idiot first time parent and be without it, so we're going to bring it, regardless. I'll be bringing my knitting for the two hour ride down to Taichung, anyway--nervous energy needs an outlet--so I'll just stuff everything into one bag and it won't seem so weird, right? ). The wake-up call has been made so I guess now the only thing left to do is to get a good night's rest while I still can!