15 April 2013

OK, I am 32 now.

Early Celebration for 15 April 2013

The schedule for this great day was:
1. lunch in Mama's Kitchen,

2. factory tour provided by the Namchow Group, and

3. pizza and cup cake DIY with Grandpa.

Mama's Kitchen (Chinese Web Page) http://www.mamaskitchen.com.tw/info.php?index=1

Namchow Group (Chinese Web Page) http://www.namchow.com.tw/

Mo Mo Bear

On the way to the Mo Mo park, we found this poor bear sitting with the trash.

Mo saved the bear, gave her a good bath and took her home.

Mo, I think we did a pretty good thing.

Big Girl

Mo asked me if she could go to Kidsburgh with her friends from the school ALONE, without me.

I felt like my teenager girl was asking my permission for a night out with her boyfriend already...

Little Vacation in Sanyi and Dahu

It is quite difficult to ignore strawberries when everything is pink or red with strawberry flavour in the strawberry season and we just love to pick them with our own hands.

To avoid hours of travelling this time, we went to a little town Sanyi first which is famous for its long history of wood carving to spend the afternoon painting our own wooden rabbit and wooden duck.

The old factory was once one of the top companies that made wooden ducks and sculptures.

From hunting baits to pressures collectibles, the wooden ducks could not support the declining industry and the factory is now transformed and provides factory tours.

Since there wasn't any schedule, Mo and I then wondered around in the surrounding area and looked at the real ducks that Mo found for quite some time.

The hotel we stayed that night isn't worthy to mention since that was the only one we could get without making any reservation.

Anyway, Mo is happy as long as she is sleeping  in a hotel.

The next day we finally arrived Dahu, our favourite strawberry growing town where all the strawberry fields along the roads are open to visitors in the strawberry season.

Although Mo doesn't eat any strawberry, running around in the strawberry fields and picking strawberries were good enough to make her ecstatic.

Just like the last time, we all got handful of strawberry staff and great satisfaction home.

Wooden Duck Factory (Chinese Web Page)
Picking Strawberries in Dahu (Chinese Web Page)

Tomb Sweeping Day

It was an unexpected four-day-vacation that was totally wasted as I was overwhelmed by the hatred for "my husband" the whole time.

The only thing worth to mention was the family reunion for the tomb sweeping day.

The little boys in the picture are actually Mo's uncles, and my cousins.

Mo couldn't quite accept the concept though.

Taipei Lantern Festival 2013

When I was trying my best to think of something to do for the Saturday night, I got a phone call from my auntie.

My grandma was in Taipei and she wanted us to meet for the lantern festival!

The festival has been one of the coolest event in a year.

Although it was too crowded and too big to see everything, walking together under thousands of lanterns still made the night quite wonderful. 

And, the festival got even cooler the next day...