Perfection: A early morning hike, a waterfall, a beautiful car ride through the mountains, a broken down car, a monastery, and a magical Taiwanese family!
But let's start at last night.
Friday: The night started out at Kelli's going away party. A pretty low key night up in a big room. Then everyone decided to go to Elementary Bar (one of the only bars open in Taichung because there was a fire a while back in a bar that ended with some deaths so now they are closing EVERY bar in Taiwan.) where we were having a lovely, laid back evening until the police showed up... to (I guess) shut down this bar as well. There were like 7 government officals and 4 police men :) We ended up making friends wit the government offical but the police man just wasn't having it... he was trying to not smile the whole time but he definitly wanted to!! It ended up being totally fine.. but sometimes when I get awkward I cant stop laughing... and of course this was one of those times.
Saturday: We woke up and headed to the waterfall. The weather was incredible and the waterfall was RUSHING. I ended up hanging out at the top where the view is breath taking and there were a couple Taiwanese families having a picnic.
After the waterfall we headed to Puli to meet with Kelli's Taiwanese family. Driving there with the windows down, good music, an AMAZING view of the mountains, and fun friends. On the way the car overheated. The fun part was that it overheated by a monastery where monks brough us water and Alumi (taiwanese dad) came and fixed the car. While waiting I took in the sights of the beautiful country side so needless to say the little detour was a successful one.
We then got to Alumi's house where I met his daughter and wife. We had a large barbeque and hung out all afternoon just talking and getting to know each other. We then went to a temple where there were so many tourist and monks.. the temple was beautiful and it overlooked the mountains that were covered by the clouds at the top. It was truly breathtaking. We then went back to the house... proceeded to eat more (I don't know how that was possible) and headed home... on the way home there was this one moment when I felt like if I could have been anywhere in the world for just a second it would have been in that moment. It was a very good moment :)
It was a great day and tomorrow we are off to another small down that apparently has some amazing arts and crafts! I am excited!!
As weird as I think blogging it... I do think it is going to be my favorite thing when I want to look back on these random days and on all the adventures that are to come.. there are so many things I want to do.. it is time to slow down and take everything one day at a time!!! :)
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