okie finally have the mood to blog :D partly cause i have nothing better to do haha, spent a freaking long time arranging the photos, and uploading them...

then the 2nd day, we headed to a lotus farm, it was not really a farm la, but more of those places where families can go to and enjoy a day there :) so we went there saw lots of interesting things, one of them were these piggies :D below are pictures of real piggies :D they are super adorable ! but smelly too ><>

and of course i must take a photo with me animal ME :D oh its real btw, it just sits there and let people take photo with it haha.

then we went to this pond with giant lotus pads? i donno what they are called in english lol, but in chinese they are called 莲花. they are supposedly so big that even if a person sits on it, it won't sink :D COOL RITE ! i wanted to try, but it wasn't the time for it sadly... cause they actually have specific timings, so there will be people to supervise you when you do that.

hen we went for lunch, actually that was the whole reason why my mum wanted to go there in the first place. to eat lotus lunch, but as you can see, in the end the only lotus parts are the leave to put the fish on, and the lotus stem, but the lotus stem was good thou :D

then we headed down to another farm, but this time it was sunflowers, made a short stop only, cause it was sorching hot ! so hopped down took photos, got sunflowers, bought stuff and hopped back into the car hahahaha. oh i realised u can't see much sunflowers in the photo, maybe cause the photo too small, or maybe just this photo, but ai ya i too lazy upload the rest lol.

k then the next day we headed up to the mountain, but the photos are below, and cause there are too many photos, its a bit of a hassle to move all of them up, so i shall just talk about this first.

CHOCOLATE EXHIBITION ! :D AWESOMENESS ! the things they can make with chocolate is so amazing, and the craftmenship of it is really... speechless haha. but before this, we went to another museum, a history museum i guess, but they don allow photos, so no photos.

but they don allow us to take also never mind, cause when we went to the chocolate exhibition, we saw those important items at the history museum, but this time they were made of chocolate :D ain't that like more cool? hahahahhaa

below are photos of chocolate made items :D pottery

mini great wall of china

this is the most awesome of all :D terracota warriors :D it was so grand, and just standing in front of the display, you can actually smell the chocolate in the air hahahaha

dim sum set :D cool or wat, all the dim sum is made of chocolate, no kidding :D

ARROWS ! HAHAHA

tea cup set, chocolate again :D

oo n i saw yao yao there, she was there to film some tv program for 三立 to promote the chocolate exhibition, and to promote her new album, so she's there to introduce the place, and learn how to make chocolate. oh oh oh and this chef ? guess he's a chef ba, since he's sorta cooking something LOL or maybe he's a crafter? ai ya i donno la, but he can make chocolate into awesome stuff. see that flat piece of chocolate there, he can make a flower out of a small part of it in less than 30 seconds :D

i was so awestruck that i forgot to take photos of it lol. k more of i was too lazy to do so cause i saw my mum taking already.

ok this was the day where we went up to the mountain, we made a stop at this tao yuan xian gu on the way up, hmmm.... suppose to see flowers one, but then the weather so hot, and i think not the season for it, all we got to see was a bit here and there. but there was a field of lavenders though. but i don wanna see lavenders -.- that one i see so many times le..... super hot ! walked so far somemore LOL!

the lavender field, my dad donno how to zoom in one, then he don wanna move forward also, cause he say too hot then he say he take from the shade, then my mum also say too hot so stand under the shade and take. then the photo ended up like this -.-

so after the place, we headed up to the mountain, 2 1/2 hrs ride ..... :S and the road was so windy, and all.... omg torturous ride... plus i am the kind to get car sick.... but the place was really nice, if only there was another way up i would gladly go back there again, if not thanks but no thanks hehe.

the picture up there is our room taken from below :D

the view from our room's window :D

another view from our side window, this leads to.....

this place :D cool or wat ! and the temperature up there is sooo much cooler than "below" .

but the place so ulu one haha, was suppose to stay there for 2 nights, in the end we stayed for one only, and went down to taipei the next day. another tortorous 2 1/2 hrs down.... oooohhhh......

our room, the other side very de messy so can't show u all haha

oh oh oh this is the place where u all must go if u all go up to la la shan, la la shan is the mountain that we went to. this is a place where they have 神木(shen mu), there are trees there who are over 1000 years old.... and they are all seriously huge ! just take a look at the pic above, that huge tree... and if u look to the right of the picture, u can actually spot a tiny tiny me, thats a comparison of how big that tree is :D

our bullet train(高铁), they call it that in chinese. super comfortable. must go try haha, its really heaven as compared to that squeezy car ride....

went down to taipei, stayed in this hotel for 2 nights, but my mum don like it so we moved to this place, its a themed house ba. cause its not a hotel nor a motel.

super nice room, my mum insists on posing while i took the photo LOL!

then on i donon which day, we went to the sun zhong shan memorial place, the founder of taiwan.

then we tried these grapes that looks so delicious, but in actual fact they kinda suck. cause they taste like wine, we thought its cause put too long then too ripe, but they say its actually like tat ....

and the first advertisement tat i saw of luo zhi xiang :D on the first night, just right next to our hotel hahaha