Little jaguar wrapped around my finger- Last Shots

5.26 - 5.28.11
Rainy street shot of a ring I got at a night market in Taipei. The last few nights in the city- so much good food and atmosphere. The view of California right before landing in LA. My lunch time meal at LAX. And a rainy beach that we passed by in Taiwan while it was storming.

End obnoxious amount of posts that I was too busy to write until now. Sorry about the overload!

I'm officially back in the States now. I'm home :)
xx.

Hair did

5.25.11
Spent the day at Taipei 101, in the adorable coffee house on the 35th floor. Espresso shakes + little cakes, yes please. The view was pretty amazing as well. The 6th shot- night scene is the view of Taipei 101 from my street. It's usually hard to find a clear view of the building in its entirety, even with how massive it is.

Got my hair done- re-touched up with waves and volume. I don't trust anyone in the States with my hair anymore, esp not with their exorbitant prices. Full-walled mirror elevators are also cool.

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Beach-washed

5.23.11
Not even one of the prettier beaches in Taiwan- just the closest to Taipei. 20 minute drive from the city. Picked up every jade-looking rock I could find, but left with only a few because 10 lbs of rocks is kind of ridiculous.

Every beach, gulf, waterfall, river, etc is always surrounded by mountains and forests, and often with terraces (not shown here). Sometimes they're all right next to cities- it still puts me in awe how beautiful Taiwan is. It's a scenery junkie (like me)'s dream.

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Trains are cool

5.22.11 train ride from Taichung to Taipei.
Scenery was incredible- trains are awesome. So are apples.

shake down, 1979

Outfit post, plus travel, plus food. See, I can multitask. These were taken outside my family's house in Taichung before a huge family reunion. Leaving via train for Taipei tomorrow, so I really need to pack tonight but we all know how that always goes.

Today we gazed in trance-like states at amazingly provoking works at the Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, stuffed our faces with foods we would probably rather not know which part of what animal it came from, and relaxed with tea time at a rose-themed teahouse. The pudding even had rose crumbles in the syrup- it was actually incredibly awkward since I've never really eaten potpourri..

Feeling pretty accomplished. Til' tomorrow!
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night markets

Taiwan, I love you when it rains. I love you at night. You are my blood, you are my left arm.

Taichung two

Went to a Japanese restaurant in Taichung today- and this is what bento boxes should look like. Taichung was actually founded as a Japanese city, and was to be the Japanese capital of Taiwan way back when; thus it has a lot of Japanese history to it. There are still a lot of Japanese shops and memorials, even a park and museum dedicated to Taiwanese-Japanese history.

Monday I'm taking a train to Taipei where my mom's side of the family is. I can't wait to post pictures from there- it will be amazing. I'm gonna try and enjoy the low-key life here but really can't wait to get to Taipei :)

xx.