Feng Yuan Photos

Today I got in a nice run and searched for the early morning Tai Chi old people to ask about Kung Fu in the city... it was raining so of course they were not out. I also didn't start my run until 7AM, that's pretty late for them. I will have to try to wake up earlier tomorrow morning and catch them.

Afterwards the sky cleared up and it was rather nice out. I went downtown to buy some necities, including the most ridiculous and amazingly cool Engrish shirt I've ever seen with alcoholic pandas decorating it:

I wish you could read this more clearly. It says random things like "PADAHER" and do you want to have a drink withme sometime? then "JOYEN LIFE YOUR" but the good English comes here: "Quit drinking around" "it makes me happy.... HAHAHA" "Alcohol is my soulmate it makes me happy." Then I got the monkey boxers and some pig socks too. I love Taiwan!

I mean an alcoholic Panda... it's so funny I had to buy it. There was more, but the blog can't hold so many Engrish pictures.

Moving on I got some photos of how madly the people drive scooters around here. Keep in mind this is all during a Sunday from like 10:30 to 3:30 around the night market area.... in other words this is a calm time. Most of these photos aren't even on the main road.

Night Market above. Although it's hardly even started... but at night this place comes to life.

There is also a pretty huge and impressive Daoist temple in downtown:

These pictures cannot do the temple justice... I'm really no photographer.

Overall this was a productive drip downtown, I got my underwear, sneakers for Tennis, a lot more food at the bakers and some Tennis balls, which took forever to get. I had to keep asking people only to find out that the store I was being directed to was closed... probably for renovations.

I was overjoyed when I found the Tennis balls. They were $160 for a nice can... that's about $5 US... I guess that's what they cost back home. I also got some trainers for $35 / ball ... that's just over $1USD for each ball for trainers... that's kind of pricy. Tennis isn't super popular here so I guess it's like paying US prices in Taiwan... but since my salary is relatively low that means they are actually quite expensive here.

Hopefully you all enjoy the pictures, I will have more to share later on.