Taipei Day 3 (update)

After take out breakfast, again, James and I headed to the Pacific Core Living Mall. Not that I am into visiting malls on holiday, but it is an architecture marvel. We enjoyed a blended fruit drink while we walked around the 11 floors.

We took a long subway ride out to the Grand Pacific Hotel, one of Taipei's main tourist attractions. It is a beautiful Chinese style hotel that looks over the whole of Taipei. Unfortunately, it rained all day, so the view from the Grand hotel was not that grand. After we explored a bit we decided to inquire about their high tea. This was not your traditional high tea. It was a full Chinese, Japanese and American lunch buffet including a large table of salads/soups, a long buffet of traditional Chinese en trees, a Japanese sushi bar, a table with fresh fruit from the island, an ice cream bar and a beautiful dessert table. Oh, and tea of course. This was all for around $12. It was really scrumptious. I think we will both remember this as one of our favorite meals on this trip.

After high tea we decided to try and find the pastry shop that Ruth took us to on our first day with the really good pineapple cake It wasn't that hard to find at all. Once again that little pastry shop was packed with patrons.

On our return to the Greer's (James Family, our hosts) we decided to hunt down the Mr. Donut at Taipei Main Station/Taipei Underground Mall. The Greer's enjoy Mr. Donut, so we knew this would be a nice surprise for them. Let me tell you... we got ourselves back assward lost down there in that underground mall. That thing is HUGE. You literally cannot see the end of the mall from where you are standing. I would guess that there are miles of mall down there. It went on forever and ever. We decided to resurface to get our bearings. It worked like a charm. After we located Nova Computer Superstore (also from day 1) we had no trouble finding Mr. Donut. Of course, when we did find it there was about 20 people in line waiting to buy donuts.

When we got back to the Greer's we were greeted with a houseful of guests, sort of, the principle of the school where the Greer's both teach and her two sons. We ate Pizza hut and chatted about life in Taiwan.

Tomorrow we are off to Tokyo. Our taxi to the airport arrives at 6:30AM. Goodnight!