Remember, remember...

...the 5th of November. That's today. I don't know why that rhyme gets stuck in my head. I know next to nothing about Guy Fawkes, the gunpowder plot or Bonfire Night. Although I've read enough Enid Blyton books to just know about burning the guy on the bonfire.

Anyway. Still in Taiwan! Today was pretty eventful, I thought. Slept in...oh, glorious glorious sleeping in, how I have missed thee! It's not a proper holiday unless you get to sleep in, really. Anyway, after I woke up, for some reason I had a hankering for some bacon and eggs. So Neko brought me to NY Bagels for brunch. Well, it was rather later than brunch, to be honest. But yeah.

I consumed an orange, two pancakes, two pieces of lovely lovely bacon, two eggs overeasy, potatoes, a blueberry bagel with cream cheese, and a coffee.

Yeah, I'm not sure how I managed to get up and walk after that.

Dropped by a bookstore afterwards, because really. I might be out of my homeland, but you can't keep the books away from me! Actually, Neko just wanted to have a look at a guidebook, to get an idea of where we could go, and to see if there's anything that caught my interest. After a while, I saw the English book section, and I picked up one that looked rather interesting, and got quite a few pages in, before Neko came back to pick me up.

Note to self: for further reference, since you didn't get that book, and it was rather interesting, it was A Soft Place to Land, by Susan Rebecca White. Get it. Seemed like a good read.

After that, we stopped by at hers, where we freshened up (and by 'we', I mean 'me', and by 'freshened up', I mean I redid my make up while Neko looked up driving directions).

So yeah, we had a lovely drive around the mountains, where Neko got temporarily lost, and I got to see quite a great view of Taipei. We ended up at the Tsuan-Tang Hot Springs, for my first hot spring experience. I decided to go with the private one though; I didn't really want to see a bunch of naked arses around me, nor did I feel overly inclined to expose my bare butt.

Anyhoo. I quite liked it! It was so relaxing...definitely glad I crossed that off my list, and will do it again if and when I come to Taiwan again. I'm not sure my skin is any better though. I'm still as gorgeous (and modest) as ever.

After that, we did another must-do - we stopped by the Shilin Night Market. I still wasn't hungry by this point (see: huge brunch consumed), so we decided to walk around a bit first. I did of course have a bubble tea first. Suuure, I can get that back home, but still! Can't come to Taiwan and NOT have a bubble tea, right?

Didn't buy anything. Strangely enough, I haven't really been bitten by the shopping bug while I've been here.
I did eat an oyster omelette...without the oyster, strangely enough. Yes, another thing I can get back home, but Neko got it for me, and it was quite the noms! Together with that, Neko got us another dish that I'd learnt about back home from some travel cooking show. Mum asked me about it, I asked Neko about it, and turns out that Neko quite likes it.

So I had my first taste of deep fried stinky tofu. I...did not like it. I could barely swallow the first bite. As much as I'd wanted to like it, I just...couldn't. But hey, at least I say I've had it!

Last thing I ate was guava and strawberries. The loveliest, juiciest, sweetest strawberries ever. Again, noms!

Pretty knackered after that, plus it started raining, so we made our way home. By home, I mean Neko's, of course.

So now we're here, both blogging, and drinking rum and cokes, planning to snuggle up and watch Chuck.


And so ends Day 5.