Yangmingshan

On Sunday Danielle, Chris and I got up early and headed off to Yangmingshan http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/HTML/ENG/INDEX.ASP for a gorgeous mountain hike. The hike was about an hour and a half long. We saw tree ferns, a lizard with an electric blue tail, Dr. Suess looking trees and some sulphur 'pits' or springs. The day was hot and humid so we all got really sweaty on the walk up. Thankfully Danielle and I had a change of clothes with us for the afternoon.

All day the 3 of us talked of the food we were missing from home. Guiness on tap, hummus and veggie burgers were on the top of our list. We decided to check out a Western style pub in Taipei called the Brass Monkey. We were all ecstatic to learn they had both Guiness and veggie burgers. Although, the 'veggie' burgers turned out to be deep fried mashed potato on a bun but the Guiness was sooo worth it. We also wanted to check if Angels & Demons was playing at the IMAX but decided just to head back to Taoyuan as the beers made us super lazy.