Taiwan Day 2 Part 1 | One Day at a Time

Continued from Taiwan Day 1.

The weather forecast for our time here in Taiwan. Most and chances of rain daily. It’s so fucking hot and humid, but I still see people wearing jackets. WTF.

Our room comes with breakfast. And it ain’t not crappy continental American hotel breakfast.

Well…let’s say it’s like American and Taiwanese continental breakfast combined.

Nice bright blue sky day…by nice I mean it’ll be really hot later.

Alright, time to walk one block over and pick up the kids from grandma’s place.

I recognize those pavilions at the Taichung park.

I’m gonna eat these egg puddings everyday. I’m eating this one while the kids are getting ready.

Let’s go get our day started. Ah Gong was too lazy to join us for the day. We’ve hired a driver with a van to take us around today.

So quintessential Taiwanese live/work units.

Scooters, still mostly all gas powered. It’s not like China, even China of 10 years ago when they were already mostly all electric.

Reached our destination for this morning. A natural science museum, used to come here as a kid. Now my kids get to experience what I also experienced as a kid.

RL and the kids were all really interested in this flower.

The McDonald’s that’s part of the museum is still here! And look at those cool windows!

Still interested in the flower.

He thinks he’s so badass…

Thinks he’s so cool.

Our goofball.

Hah, my goofy girl.

It’s like carrying one of my children on my shoulders.

Haha. Even ah ma was intrigued by the museum.

Family photo IR style.

Little fish for the water fountain drain. RL was proud of catching this detail.

Stamps, not for reentry, but just for fun.

Now we are heading to the other wing of the museum, this is the part with the dinosaur exhibits.

Holy shit, they had this exact same exhibit 30 plus years ago when I last visited!!! Blast from the past.

This virus model was also the same. Wow, it’s weird having these old memory flashbacks.

This is super old too, I’m just judging by how small that screen is.

I never go to museums where the exhibit people are Asian, so it’s odd to see Asians depicted.

Ah Ma pointed out several plants that were edible and what parts were edible. Cool!

This animatronic dinosaur was also the same as it’s always been.

I also remember looking up like my kids are doing now to see what the mechanism is like that makes the dinosaur head come down.

The dinosaur hall, they’ve changed this a little bit. The T Rex now moves and makes sounds.

RL thought it was very humorous of the museum to put this tiny, toy dino under the plaster of a real one.

This one was here all this time and just the same. The head polished shiny by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of visitors over the decades. Somehow, visiting this hall reminds me a little bit of the movie Amelie, where she returns the tin can full of childhood memories to the now grown middle aged man. I feel very nostalgic about this whole visit.

I’m gonna eat yo face.

Holy shit. This talking dinosaur, I had forgotten until I saw him again. It’s still here!! Man, this dinosaur hall was so much of my childhood.

Matchy matchy.

That beetle model is incredibly accurate.

Kids said that it was baba and mama. They said baba looked fine, but mama looked terrible.

I still remember eating at this McDonald’s when I’d come visit the museum with my parents back in the day. McDonald’s were a newer introduction and it was kind of a big deal to eat at them because there weren’t many of them. How times have changed…

Now we are leaving the natural history museum portion and heading to the botanical garden portion. I’ve never actually visited the botanical museum portion before.