First Day in Taiwan!

It is now 7pm here and we are all ready to pass out, but we did have an exciting day before getting to this point. We all woke up around 1am on the airplane, and landed around 530am, then spent an hour and a half in the airport filing baggage claims for our lost luggage. Then, we spent about an hour getting to our hostel. Finally, we decided to go out for the day and go to the National Palace Museum. It had unbelievably intricate and auspicious (that word is for Lisa) art. We spent a good chunk of the day wandering the museum and the garden outside the museum. We bought some Fanta from a vending machine to learn that here, Fanta is like Jello (very awkward texture). When we were done at the Palace Museum, we went to walk around some various markets. It was very fun, and we had to buy some clothing/toiletries as we are still bagless. After we were hot and tired and hungry, we decided to eat at a sushi bar, and we all got a little raw fish in our stomachs! Lots of fun; learned how to use the public transportation system, and now we are back at our hostel ready to pass out looking forward to a fun day tomorrow.