Taichung City

Taichung City "the big city" about an hour by train from Dajia. It's sort of a central location for meeting the other teams in the area and hanging out. I spent some of my weekend there so I thought it would be an appropriate title for my post.

                                      

Friday was Gem's birthday so do to a lack of having wrapping paper, 

I used some colored plastic bags to wrap her gift. Ingenuity at it's best!

This is the Dajia train station dog, or at least he's always hanging out there.

He's always so pitiful and sad looking all the time. :(

Saturday morning we headed to Taichung City by train to meet up with members from two of the other teams from the area to go to "America, otherwise known as Cosco."

Mango Shaved Ice. 

It's a little bit like ice cream but icyer (in the literal sense of the word) with extra toppings.

Yummy!!

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Haha. Yeah, I know that's a really big jar. But Cosco isn't known for it's small sized items.

Sadly, peanut butter is one of those things that's hard to find in Taiwan so Gem and I snatched up this opportunity to have some American comfort food.

Yes, we will be sharing this jar.

It's in the fridge because I don't want to share it with the ants too.

Matt, Mary, Peter, Kelli, and Gem.                                                         

  American Pizza at the food court.

Taiwanese pizza is a thick slab of bread with some cheese sprinkled over the top.

                                It was a fun but long day. Taichung City is a big place and waiting for
                                              and riding buses can take up quite a bit of time.

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Now, on to Sunday...

Gem and I went to church with the Nantou team in Taichung City (that's where it's all at!). We all took a bus  but still had to walk several blocks in the rain to get to the church. I would have enjoyed the rain more if I hadn't been thinking of the old wives tale about acid rain making your hair fall out. Rain just isn't the same over here, ya know. 

My favorite part of every church service I've attended in Taiwan so far has been the singing. I love hearing the English and Chinese as it blends into one melody as everyone sings the hymns together. It's really cool. After the service, we went out for lunch at a restaurant called "Hawaii 51" afterwards. I got a BBQ hamburger that was sooo good. 

Me, Riane, Nick, Tim, Laura, and Tim.

Here we are afterwards. The restaurant had all these weird things 

you could dress up in to get your picture taken.

Hung out with Gem at the mall and got Cold Stone banana

 chocolate ice cream before heading back to Dajia.

Gem and I discovered this drawer in the kitchen area just the other day. We went a little overboard in our excitement and actually started screaming and laughing. It's a good thing the repair shop below us was closed for the evening. Hehe. No more flipping eggs and pancakes with spoons. Hooray!!!

Happy Monday, everyone!