A Nine Year Old's Thoughts About the World: Taipei (our two houses)

Taipei is a very big city and the capital of Taiwan. It has very good meat sticks, desserts and fruit. It has lots of wonderful parks and the craziest cafes.

So when we got to Taipei, we went straight to a night market. A night market is normally a long road with stands in a big line, kind of like a farmers market, except it has the craziest foods and you can only see it at night. So when we got there we started going around to different stands, trying meat sticks, pancakes and fruit. Some people there were cooking stinky tofu. It was very stinky so we never tried it. We kind of had to try not to smell it. The only problem was it was everywhere. Other people were cooking meat by putting it on a grill and cooking it with a hose type thing that sprayed out fire. It was fun to go the night market because you could be like "Ooh what's that?" "I don't know, let's try it!"

The next day we walked down to the Peace Park, but it was pouring so we just drew pictures under a gazebo. I wish we could have explored the park more because it was so beautiful.

The next day we went to the viewing deck of one of the tallest buildings, Taipei 101. This building was so tall, 101 floors! It stood out from the rest of the buildings by a lot.

The next day we went to the night market again and this time we got a weird peach shave ice that was not my favorite. It was super sweet. Then we played a pachinko type game, where you put in one Taiwan dollar (3 cents) and you try to shoot a ball into a slot. Then you get tickets to pick out toys.

In our next house we stayed at, we went to a cool modern art museum with some very interesting things. (I will show you pictures.)

We also climbed a mountain called Elephant Mountain. The steps were so steep but the view at the top was so good!

Then we went to a park called Daan Forest Park (you say it like Da-an). They had some cool machines where you bike and it pumps water into a river. We also saw a cool bird that walked right by us!

We went to Taipei Zoo. There was a hippo that was scared to go in the water and monkeys that were SOOOO cute! That same day we went on a gondola. We got one with a glass bottom! It was fun because we looked down and saw a bald eagle!

I think Taipei would be a great place to live because there are so many things to do like going to cafes. Taipei is different from Seattle because in Taipei they have night markets and we don't in Seattle.

Night market