Trip to Taiwan Day 3

 Day #3 (10/17) Aloft Beitou 

Breakfast (savory soy milk)

Tried to go to public foot bath.... Skip due to too many people

Hot springs (Sweetme hotel)

Xinbeitou historic station 

Lunch beef noodle soup at

Ai Jia Beef Noodle Restaurant

1:30pm Lansing and Russel pick us up at hotel

Hike in the rain at 陽明山

Foot soak afterwards

Coffee at 白房子- coffee made by robot!

Saw big moon tonight... Dinner at Grand hotel... Judy and Jefferson join us!

It was a great day.

Trip to Taiwan Day 1-2

 DAY#1  (10/15)  Arrive 6:45pm TPE Aloft Beitou

Uncle Jeff pick us up

Dinner at Rice porridge place

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And tofu dessert 

Day #2 (10/16) Aloft Beitou 

Beautiful view from the room

Breakfast at hotel

Excited to explore Beitou

But first, buy Yo yo card

Beitou market 

Beitou library 

Thermal Valley- rain, green sulfur smell, steam

Snack time- thermal egg

Puji Temple... wash hand first

10:30-11:30 Beitou public Hot Spring

Surprise visit! Soak with the public... my hair stick out of the cap... the guy whistle at me...

12:00 – explore: Hot Spring Museum 

Lunch at hotel 餡餅（daikon empanada) and 胡椒餅 and fruits

Stop by Chiang Kai Shek memorial before dinner 

19:00 – Dinner time! Eat with Uncle Jeff and MIL’s cousin’s restaurant 吃飯

Visiting Father in Law

 At Lytton Garden

and Lunch at Top Cafe

Learn he likes sun bathing

MeiFeng's birthday celebration

 After ikebana class, we had lunch at Wisteria Cafe inside Allied Art Guild in Menlo Park.

It's a beautiful ground with shops and garden.

Banning Museum

This is a picture of us and our tour guide

In the heart of Wilmington sits a little-known treasure, The Banning Museum. Phineas Banning—entrepreneur, the founder of the city of Wilmington, and “the Father of the Port of Los Angeles”—built the 23-room residence in 1864. Subsequent generations lived in it until 1925; in 1927 the residence, stagecoach barn, and the surrounding 20 acres of parkland were acquired by the City of Los Angeles.

The cornstalk fence is cast iron and was made by Wood & Perot, Philadelphia in 1858. It has a beautiful design of cornstalks resting on pumpkins, with vainglorious weaving around them. It was purchased by William Sanford Banning in New Orleans in the early 1900s and was installed around the Banning Residence Museum in 1984.

The fence is very unique with only two others like it in existence. They are both in New Orleans, one around the Cornstalk Hotel, and the other surrounding a private home in the Garden District.