Despite sleeping late at night due to celebrate Celine's birthday, we woke up quite early as usual in the morning.
Today started with quite an exhausting activity. Shortly after the breakfast, we walked down a small path to observe some plants along with their uses, especially for herbals. The sun was right above us, so you can imagine us being bathed in sweat in the morning. Anyway, we even got to taste a small fruit, not sure what it was called, but it was delicious! It looked like a cherry.
Then we walked down another path that turned out to be the path we walked on just last night! During the walk, we even got to spot two eagles perching on a branch in a tree far far faaaar away from where we were. Thankfully, George snapped them in his camera. So it was clearer to see the birds on the camera rather than looking directly when you could see nothing but trees along the way.
Once we arrived to the courtyard, where we started our walk, another activity had awaited. We saw kinds of coffee beans, and next, we planted a small tree in a group (Group 4 was divided into two groups). Turned out it didn't take long to do that. Basically we just dug the soil and shoved the small plant into it. Nothing much. Then we had lunch for a while and then took a break for like an hour.
After a while of taking nap in our room (yeah we used the time for good. We were dead tired at that moment after the whole walking thing), we woke up and stuffed some clothes and a towel into an extra bag and also wore a pair of sandals just like what we were told before the break time. Guess we were going to have some fun in the water that day.
The splashing time begun! And it started off many phases:
1. Still dry
2. Someone splashed the water from the pool towards us. Wet already? Yes,a bit.Wait till you see more.
3. Group competition! Each of the group representatives should compete in a rock paper scissor. The winners should scoop the pool's water and splashed it on the lost ones.
4. New rule was established! The lost ones should be thrown right away into the pool
5. Some random people brought a bucket of water balloons and threw them to each other
6. Random people started throwing other each other into the pool
7. Thrown into the pool, got off the pool, thrown back into the pool, repeated many times
8. Splashing time in the pool
9. Staying in the water, still with our clothes and glasses on.
Since today was Celine's birthday, she got splashed and thrown very often into the pool.
The pool party soon ended and we were to get back to our cottages. Imagine us, wet from head to toe while our clothes still stuck to our bodies, walked down to the cottages while the afternoon breeze was blowing. Coooold...~~~~~
Barbeque party is next. It was actually a normal dinner with fellow dining chair mates, with us sitting around a table provided at the courtyard, along with grills and beefs to be roasted.
The night itself ended with a short karaoke session before we went back to our cottages, and went straight to our beds at 10. This was probably the earliest time we'd ever hit the bed, because usually while in Taiwan, we'd go to bed past midnight. Always past midnight. And have I mentioned that it wasn't that seldom for us to sleep up to three am?
Twelfth day: July, 2010 (Tainan - Kaohsiung)
Early in the morning, we took off to Kaohsiung, and the first destination was the Olympic stadium. It might not be as famous as the Bird nest, but I'm telling you, the stadium and its interior looked incredibly gorgeous. With the white beautifully shaped clouds hanging in the clear blue sky, I didn't bother to take some pictures. The results weren't so bad.
And of course, we did take pictures of ourselves too. We even got a chance to step on the blue running track.
Then we were heading towards the downtown of Kaohsiung, where we had a quick lunch (we ate fried squid, meatballs, and fish dumplings) before going to the harbour to board on the ferry to the other side of Kaohsiung.
Well, I had this fear on riding boats, since I had quite a trauma after going to Krakatau (the waves were effin scary). But then it didn't take a while for the ferry, for the other side of Kaohsiung wasn't even a mile away from where we took off and no waves at all.
The bus had waited for us there at the harbour, and we were quickly taken to a place, which was very quiet, with only train's railway and a row of artistic-ly made statues. Turned out it was the art district of Kaohsiung, and was quite famous despite how quiet the vibe was.
We ended up entering a small building (like a warehouse) where there was an art exhibition display one large 3D painting by Kurt W. The painting itself depicted a bathing dragon, which, if seen from the top, it looked as if the whole elements inside the painting was real. (it was called 3D for a reason)
After that, we took some pictures along the sidewalk with artistic statues I mentioned.
Before heading to the hotel, we stopped by SYS market, where I purchased a pair of purple sneakers on a Levis store with reasonable price. Thanks to the 50% off discount!! Another uncommon sighting spotted in this market is, you could see bunch of schoolgirls and boys hanging around. Their uniforms were uniquely cute! With blazers, vests, and even the girls sported pantovels.
Ah, they reminded me of my dear school.
Anyway, we headed straight to the hotel afterwards, dropped our things and took off to Liu He nightmarket. This nightmarket was possibly a bit different from any other nightmarkets I'd ever visited in Taiwan, since this nightmarket - Liu He Nightmarket - was smaller, but despite its size, it was crowded and full of food stalls on its sides! We bought snacks and as for me, I decided to buy myself a traditional egg kebab for dinner.
Oh, and my friend happened to stumble upon a game vendor. She won the game (it wasn't that hard though) and got a Plankton doll (that Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants) in exchange to the amount of money paid for the game. The Plankton doll instantly gained fame in my group and he even got a special nickname...Plankiss. LOL
We spotted a very unusual sight: a foreigner selling food!
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