Costco Buffet and Liu Fu Chun

I'm back with my English blogs! Hahaha, I think it'll take a while before I do another Chinese one. Hahaha! I need to rest my brain. :-P


FRIDAY

Jen, Heidi, and I went to Guanghua Electronic Mall after class, and we met up with Jen's uncle. The place feels like V-Mall. Hehehe. I'm going to take Hamy there when he visits Taiwan. I also saw a Babolat tennis racket there (NT2300) which I wanted to buy. *DROOL*

After Guanghua, we went to Costco (Similar to S&R or Macro) and sampled the many free tastes in the place. Michelle told me that they call that the "Costco Buffet" in the States. Hahaha!

After that, we (Heidi, Jen, myself) met up with Michelle and Jamie and ate dinner at the Jamaican place. We went to a lounge nearby, after dinner. I had my first (and last) taste of Taiwan Beer. I found it better tasting that San Miguel Beer (or SanMig Premium even). We also got to meet one of Michelle's college friend, Chris.



SATURDAY at the Amusement Park

Last Saturday was a very eventful day for me. First, met up with Jamie at MTC so that we can ride the bus together going to Gongguan station. We missed the first bus because Jamie doesn't know how to hail a bus. When we finally got to Gongguan station, we found out that it was actually a walking distance from our place. Waste of time. Hahaha!

Met up with Michelle who was already waiting for a long time, then waited a bit for Jen and Heidi. When we were finally complete, we had some croissants (thanks Jen!) and headed to a random place for lunch. We were already seated on a random resto when we found out that it was a buffet one; everyone wasn't that hungry so we headed to a different Chinese resto nearby.

After lunch, we ambled over to the bus station for Liu Fu Chun. We almost missed the bus! I think if we were 5 seconds late or something, we would have needed to wait for the next bus (which will arrive an hour later).

Anyhoo, the bus ride was almost uneventful. ALMOST! We thought that we have arrived Liu Fu Chun so Jen got off the bus to get our tickets; meanwhile, we remained in our seats to wait for the bus to park. Apparently, the bus was not parking but was just passing through the parking lot of the WRONG place. We realized too late that Jen has been left behind!

We called Jen up to tell her not to buy tickets and to get on a cab to Liu Fu Chun. The bus driver wouldn't go back for our friend. :-P Good thing Jen's such a happy person. No bad moods; just a lot of laughs; and NT$150 less rich!

We got in for NT$399 per person, which was fairly cheap (I think). The we plotted out our trip to make sure that we are able to ride the most exciting rides in the place.

We also met up with Jen's classmate Nini, and Nini's brother and cousin (Abe and Paul, respectively). Nini was the one who originally planned the trip, so we owe the whole Saturday adventure to her. :-)

On our first line, we were also able to meet a very hospitable family. They were very friendly and helpful to us, and we kept on bumping into them in the rides that we took. I think the two daughters had crushes on Jamie, and the parents wanted to marry a daughter off to him. Hahaha!

Here's "帥哥" with his fan club:

The photo below made everyone crack up; little Mandou (from the Taiwanese family) was just staring at the camera, but she suddenly did a peace sign when she heard Jen count to three! Cute!

Here's Nini (left), Jen (right), and xiao didi (bottom):

And here's everyone; the Yeh family, Nini's family, and us! :-D

We hungrily rode the bus back to Taipei and ate at the first decent looking (packed) restaurant that we saw. Turned out to be a very expensive buffet, but we only found out the buffet price after we were already full and sane again. Heidi and Jen treated us to dinner for no reason, and I'm not going to say no to that. :-P

It was a great Saturday; thanks for thinking up this trip, Jen!


PS. Grabbed all the photo's from Jen. Thank you!! :-)