...and we are back

After 6 nights away we are back in Nanjing and coming to terms with school on Monday. We feel that we saw most of what Taipei had to offer and we loved the ease of getting around the city.
Big lesson learned was that saving a few dollars by flying from Shanghai was now worth the hours of busses, taxis, trains and transit - we will fly direct from Nanjing in future ;)



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Location:Nanjing,China

Spider-Man 4D

Mia and Isla LOVED the 4D. The wind whistling past their ears, the lightening, the up and down, water spray and even the kidney jabs.  Luke couldn't handle the extreme awesomeness (too much jiggling in the fight scenes for his ouchy knee) and I survived but now understand why the motion master ride at theme parks is only a few minutes long not an hour and 50 minutes, possibly too much of a good thing....

                                 

Just checking to see if his spidie senses were tingling :-)

Chang Kai Shek memorial

       

                                                                           

         

Tamsui

We took the metro to the end of the line. Lovely walk along the water, then a ferry ride across to Bali. Some enormous ice creams and a wide assortment deep fried sea squeezels - great times!

       

                                  

        

        

                                     

Moo and I get a late night foot massage

Ahh, the mighty foot massage. Moo and I, feeling cooped up in the hotel room, skipped out for a foot massage. The art of reflexology is an amazing thing, as the massage only hurt three times with my knee, shoulder and neck, which is very accurate to how my body is feeling after a hard hotel bed ;)

Gondola

Perhaps not an ideal day to go a Gondo-ling but we had a great time and Isla had her heart set on riding the Gondola. We even got to ride tha Crystal one on the way down, very exciting.

                                 

Everything was Hello Kitty Themed :-)

And best of all we got to fulfill a new family holiday tradition - matching rain ponchos!! :-)

                               

Longshan temple

We arrived during chanting. It didn't feel right to be taking photos so I only took 2 sneaky ones. But it was a stunningly beautiful temple. 

The girls outside the main enterance.